The Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) in Borno state, has carried out airstike at a newly identified terrorists’ hideout in Bukar Meram, near the Lake Chad region, killing many terrorists while over 40 motorcycles and six gun trucks were destroyed. Spokesperson of the Nigerian Airforce (NAF), Edward Gabkwet, disclosed this in a statement…
The Kaduna state government, in collaboration with the military security outfit, Operation Save Heaven (OPSH), has concluded arrangements to resettle Southern Kaduna communities displaced by bandits to their ancestral homes. Governor Uba Sani, disclosed this on Wednesday while briefing journalists shortly after the state security council meeting at the Government House, Kaduna. Sani said the…
I am not a theologian by training and so in my effort to get a concise understanding of theological education in Africa, I decided to draw insights from the doctoral thesis of John K. Fulks, which was submitted in 2011 to Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in the United States as partial requirement for the fulfillment…
In this powerful episode, Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum speaks with Mercy and Prof Solomon Tarfa about the long and painful struggle to secure the release of children taken from their orphanage in Kano, Nigeria. They reveal disturbing allegations of: • Children being forced into conversions and given new identities. • Orphans taken from Asaba and transported…
President Bola Tinubu, has appointed Abdulkarim Chukkol as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC). The appointment of Chukkol followed the suspension of Abdulrasheed Bawa, chairman of the commission. Chukkol is an alumnus of the Federal Bureau of Investigations National Academy, Quantico, the European Center of Security Studies, Germany, and also…
The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) has entered talks with the Heritage Times HT, a notable global media platform to advance the cause of grassroots sports development in the country. According to THISDAY, this was disclosed in a press release by Secretary-General of SWAN, Ikenna Okonkwo, following a meeting of the leadership of both…
