Ten kidnap victims have been rescued while several bandits were neutralised in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state. In a statement on Tuesday, Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, the bandits were dislodged from their camps by troops of “Operation Forest Sanity”, during clearance operations conducted across some hard-to-reach locations, spanning…
An unspecified number of police officers have been reportedly killed at Enugwu-Ukwu community in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State by gunmen who opened fire on the convoy of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah. The attack was said to have taken place on Sunday night. Sources said about six of the police operatives in the convoy…
The Department of State Services (DSS) says the outcome of its investigation on Tukur Mamu, the hostage negotiator is mind-boggling. It also warned members of the public to desist from making unguarded utterances on the Mamu issue and await court for proceedings. Mamu who is the publisher of a Kaduna based newspaper, Desert Herald, was…
Residents of Jos, the Plateau state capital, have lamented the deplorable state of roads in parts of the metropolis, describing them as death traps. The residents, in a report, published in the latest edition of the state owned newspaper, Sunday Standard, said car crashes occur almost on a daily basis within the metropolis as a result…
The Kaduna state government says troops have neutralised many bandits,including some of those behind the kidnapping in 2021 of students of the Federal College of Forestry and the security breached at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna. Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in…
No fewer than 20 people were said to have been killed in attacks on communities in Taraba State by invading fulani terrorists. Several communities were also said to have been sacked by the criminals. It was learnt that the affected communities are located in Yangtu Development Area and Ussa Local Government Area of the state….
