Two people have been killed while a Catholic priest, a woman and her two children were abducted by terrorists in an attack on Kudendan, a suburb in Kaduna metropolis. Sources said the criminals invaded the area at about 1:15am on Tuesday. The terrorists were said to have attacked five locations within the community. One Mohammed…
The House of Representatives has asked the Chief of Defence staff to, as a matter of urgency, deploy Special Forces to Ussa and Takum Local Government Areas of Taraba state to stop the killings by bandits. The house also directed the Inspector General of Police to deploy mobile Police Force to the sections of Takum-…
Nigeria Is a Failed State The first step to restoring stability and security is recognizing that the government has lost control. By Robert I. Rotberg, founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, and John Campbell, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign…
President Bola Tinubu has declared a nationwide security emergency. The President announced this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. He also ordered additional recruitment into the armed forces into the army and the police. Tinubu said the police will recruit an additional 20,000 officers, bringing the total to 50,000. The president noted that…
The Kaduna State Police Command has launched a full-scale investigation into an alleged meeting of factions of political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), All Progressives Congress (APC) and Social Democratic Party (SDP), linked to the former governor of the state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, which reportedly degenerated into violence and sporadic gunshots. The state…
Kaduna state governor, Nasir el-Rufai,has said that the naira redesign policy is not part of the manifesto of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), but a personal decision. He also alleged that some “elements” in Aso Rock were working against the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu. Speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television…
