At least 15 people have been reportedly killed after bandits launched a reprisal attack on communities in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State on Tuesday. The attack was said to have occurred around midday in Falale and Kadobe villages, according to the police and the Katsina State Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs….
Plateau state governor, Caleb Mutfwang has sacked six of his appointees and suspended one. The Secretary to the Plateau state government (SSG), Samuel Jatau, announced this in a statement on Tuesday evening in Jos. According to the statement, the decision was taken by the governor as part of ongoing efforts to reposition the government for…
President Bola Tinubu has directed all political appointees seeking to contest elective offices in the 2027 elections to resign before March 31. The directive was issued on Tuesday in a statement by Head of Information and Public Relations, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), Dewan Goshit. The statement said the president’s…
Maiduguri is once again in the news. But this time, the headlines carry a familiar and unsettling tone—one that many Nigerians had hoped belonged to the past. On a recent evening, multiple explosions tore through parts of the Borno State capital. The blasts, reported around the Monday Market and near the University of Maiduguri Teaching…
There is a country called Nairaland. It appears on maps drawn with generous imagination and studied with careful denial. In that country, bombs go off with the regularity of sunrise, and the people, long accustomed to the smell of burning, now debate its fragrance. Some call it roasted hope. Others, ambition gone wrong. They disagree…
Twenty security operatives have been reportedly killed in an ambush by heavily armed terrorists in Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau state. The incident, according to a statement on Saturday by the Kanam Development Association (KADA), occurred during a joint patrol in Wanka and the surrounding communities of Garga area in Kanam LGA. The statement…
