Nigeria entered the new year amid sustained insecurity across multiple regions, with coordinated attacks, mass killings, military ambushes, and kidnappings recorded between late December and the first week of January. The incidents underscore persistent weaknesses in rural security and the expanding geographical spread of armed violence. In Kaduna State, bandits attacked a community in Lere…
The Rivers State House of Assembly has begun impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Oduh. At a plenary presided over by the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Martins Amaewhule, aired live on Channels Television on Thursday, the Majority Leader, Major Jack, read out the notice of allegations and gross…
The senator representing Kaduna South Senatorial District, Sunday Katung, on Thursday visited the Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, at the Government House, Kaduna, in a bid to strengthen unity within the All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead of the 2027 general elections. Katung, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the…
A former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen Tukur Buratai (rtd) has approached a Kaduna State High Court, seeking ₦1 billion in damages over defamatory allegations made against him by a fellow retired military officer, Maj Gen. Danjuma Hamisu Ali Keffi. The suit, filed on Thursday arose from statements allegedly made by Ali Keffi…
