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News Update, Wednesday, 02/03/2022
** National Assembly passes bills for devolution of powers ** ASUU Strike: Ngige updates Buhari, says FG paid N92bn to ASUU ** Buhari leaves Abuja…
There is atmosphere of uncertainty and anxiety in Damba village, Kurebe District in Shiroro local government area of Niger state as eight canter loaded with…
The Special Forces Brigade Troops of 402, Nigerian Army have discovered a Boko Haram/ISWAP bomb manufacturing site in Sambisa forest. Zagazola Makama, a top Security…
** Electoral Act: Buhari, NASS to agree on disputed clause soon – Presidency ** Ukraine: It’s time to show govt cares for Nigerians, Anyim tells…
** Act fast on ASUU strike, fuel crisis, Kaigama tells Buhari ** Nigeria’s political parties are one and the same – Senator Shekarau ** 2023…
At least 13 people were reportedly killed by fighters from the Islamic State for West African Province, ISWAP, within 48 hours in Borno State, Northeast…
About eight worshippers have been abducted by terrorists during a church service at Salama Baptist Church in a village called Gidigori in the Rafi Local…
An Improvised Explosive Device has exploded at Galadima Kogo, Shiroro Local Government Area, Niger State. This was confirmed in a statement by co-convener, Concerned Shiroro…
Police in Katsina State have arrested a 35-year-old woman, Hajiya Fatima Alhaji, suspected to be a supplier of charms to bandits terrorising the state and…
Senator representing Ogun West Senatorial district has lamented the endless kidnapping for ransom, rape and all forms of insecurity perpetuated in the Northern part of…
** Senate to vote on report of 1999 constitution review committee March 1 ** Implement agreement signed with ASUU, Reps tell FG ** APC governors…
Kidnappers who snatched a serving councillor and nine other persons have asked for the whooping sum of sixty million naira ransom to be paid before…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has narrated the encounter he had with Boko Haram members in 2011. Obasanjo had visited the family house of late Mohammed…
** APC slates national convention for March 26 ** Buni, Bello, two other govs thwarting APC national convention – Lukman ** Strike: FG meets ASUU…
Some students affected in the multiple attacks on schools last year have been impregnated. DAILY TRUST reports. Recall that last year was one of the…
** APC may postpone National Convention by two weeks ** Presidency: Tinubu will use ‘magic’ to fix Nigeria – Sanwo-Olu ** N165b Prison Fund: Tinubu…
Unknown gunmen have killed Sule Mathew, a first-class graduate of Communication and former intern with PRNigeria while travelling to Anambra State with other passengers. Mathew,…
Three kinsmen of Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, have been killed by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. Ortom is from Tse-Apera, Nzorov District under…
** Buhari sends 2022 supplementary budget to National Assembly ** NNPC distributes one billion litres of fuel nationwide ** 2023 Election: I’m focused on my…
** 2023: I told Buhari I want to step in his shoes, not on his toes —Tinubu ** Strike: ASUU begins two-day meeting, takes final…
Kaduna politician, Shehu Sani has called on religious leaders to intervene after a man allegedly divorced his wife following her release from kidnappers’ den. According…
** 2023 Presidency: Sanwo-Olu urges APC leaders to unite for Tinubu ** Don’t interfere with Nigerian politics, Buhari warns new diplomats ** Be a reference…
Armed bandits, Wednesday morning, killed a divisional police officer, A. Rano, in Jibia local government area of Katsina State during an attack on Magama section…
Northern Elders Forum (NEF’s) Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed on Wednesday lamented the insecurity being experienced in the northwest region of Nigeria.…
About four persons have been confirmed killed by suspected Fulani militias who attacked Sabon Kaura village in Atyap Chiefdom, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of…
Area of Anambra State when an official of the Anambra Traffic Management Agency (ATMA) was killed by unknown gunmen. Though details of the incident are…
There are concerns over the security situation in Kwara state following the influx of criminal groups from Zamfara, seeking refuge in the state. In a report…
** 2023: Tinubu is the next Nigeria’s President, no controversy, Igbokwe assures Nigerians ** EndSARS: Implement panels’ reports to prevent another protest, activist urges FG…
There seems no end in sight regarding the security challenges in Niger State, as gunmen continue attacks on more communities across the state. No fewer…
The 21-year-old suspected terrorist, Naziru Sani, working under the camp of Bello Turji, a notorious terrorist, on the police wanted list for acts of terrorism…
A 3-year-old girl, Mutmaina Azeez, has been abducted from her parents’ residence in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital by an unknown lady. The father of…
Troops of 401 Special Forces Brigade, in conjunction with 19 Brigade Baga, have destroyed a purported terrorists’ caliphate between Cross kauwa and Gudumbali in Borno…
Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari has demanded the public execution of school proprietor, Abdulmalik Muhammad Tanko, who kidnapped and murdered a pupil under his care,…
** AFCON: Super Eagles booted out by Tunisia 0- 1 ** SERAP drags Buhari govt to ECOWAS Court over ‘secrecy in spending of loans, debt…
Amid several reports of kidnapping buffeting social media, a Twitter user identified as @AsMasanawa, revealed how a neighbour kidnapped another neighbour’s daughter and eventually killed…
The Emir of Zazzau Emirate, Nuhu Bamali, has declared that Zaria is under siege. He also described the current security situation as unacceptable and something…
Not less than three persons have lost their lives while 30 others were abducted by gun-wielding terrorists, who laid a siege on a market in…
** 2023: Every candidate must declare bank asset, says INEC ** COVID-19: Osinbajo seeks waiver for local vaccine production ** Buhari commends El-Rufai on leadership…
Boko Haram terrorists have abducted more than a dozen girls from Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State. In their latest attack on the community,…
Suspected bandits have killed one soldier and an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) during an attack on the Forward Operating…
Some photographs taken in the recent past showing two governors and an associate of notorious bandits’ kingpin, Bello Turji, standing together have raised dusts. In…
The Kwara State Police Command has said claims that the fleeing Zamfara State bandits kingpin, Bello Turji, has relocated to an unidentified forest in the…
In a video seen by PurpleWorld on Thursday, the security personnel said they launched a manhunt on the assailants, following incessant abduction of travellers on…
Actress, Bimpe Akintunde has recounted how she escaped bandits attack along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Saturday. In a post on her Instagram page, she said…
Terrorists, known locally as bandits, have launched a brutal attack on Dankade village in Danko Wasagu Local Government Area (LGA) of Kebbi State, northwest Nigeria.…
No fewer than five persons have been reportedly killed as fresh crisis ensued when Fulani herdsmen attack farmers in the Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of…
A police inspector in Imo State has lost his life following an attack by gunmen on the Mgbidi Divisional Police Headquarters in the state. Another…
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted some students of Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State. Daily Trust reports that the students were abducted close…
The Nigeria Police Force has arrested and detained a nephew of Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, former governor of Sokoto State who was supplying arms, ammunition, and…
Mafindi Danburan said at least 30 members of the Fulani vigilante group, a military arm of MACBAN, were murdered by the bandits as more bodies…
Members of the deadly Boko Haram terrorist sect, on Thursday, invaded the police mobile training school in the Limankara Gwoza local government area of Borno…
**FG should pay youth entrepreneurs every kobo lost to Twitter ban –Lawyer *Buhari visits Ogun, commissions landmark projects **Akeredolu leads Southwest govs to welcome Buhari…
** Perish your dream to become Nigeria’s President, HURIWA tells Umahi ** Oil ownership: Adebanjo backs Clark, says Obasanjo’s statement ‘catalyst for Nigeria’s breakup’ **…
The report stated, “An analysis of the fatalities for January 1–December 31, 2021, shows that we recorded a total of 8234 8372 fatalitiesacross the country. …
** Former Nigerian Interim Leader, Ernest Shonekan dies at 85 ** Shonekan’s death: FG orders National Flag to fly at half-mast ** Nigeria owes a…
** Buhari meets Tinubu at Aso Villa, declares ambition ** Mali: It’s clear ECOWAS will no longer accept coups, says Osinbajo ** N14.7bn realised from…
Maryam, who was arrested by the Intelligence Response Team, a special police unit fighting kidnapping, confessed that she had been luring women including her own…
A farmer, Alaparo Tunde, and his two sons, Saheed and Tunde, from Alaparo Village, reportedly confronted a herder, Haruna Adamu, who was caught grazing on…
** Buhari should return cooking gas price to how he met it in 2015 –HURIWA ** We’ll shut down Nigeria if fuel prices increase –…
** Buhari deploys Osinbajo to meet NLC as countdown for fuel price hike begins ** Govt says no going back on full deregulation as Osinbajo-led…
The Nigerian Government has finally declared bandits as terrorists. After weeks of footdragging, Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), gazetted…
** Buhari appoints Chief Economic Adviser after 7 years in office ** Shakeup in Nigeria Air Force as Branch Chiefs are redeployed ** FG to…
At least 97 kidnapped persons have been released by bandit terrorists from Shinkafi and Tsafe forests, following aerial bombardment by the Nigerian military. Although police…
** 2022 budget: No crisis between Buhari, legislature —Presidency ** NDDC audit: Stop rhetoric, prosecute offenders, Ijaw congress tells Buhari ** Our target for completion…
Terrorists on Saturday launched an attack on the dreaded Kagoma-Kafanchan Road in Jama’a local government area of Kaduna state, killing one traveler and abducting some.…
Former Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai says there is a strong religious affinity between northerners and the bandits and terrorists threatening Nigeria’s security. “There…
The Economist has described Nigerian Army as a useless organisation filled with corrupt generals for their inability to protect the country from mutating violence. The…
Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Igboho has accused the Nigerian Government of attempting to eliminate him in Benin Republic. Igboho explained that the Nigerian Government was…
** Insecurity: Buhari will end insurgency in next 17months – Presidency ** Buhari to sign 2022 Budget on Friday ** Open letter: Oil belongs to…
** Why Buhari will not sign proposed electoral law – Malami ** Desmond Tutu made me contest 1999 election – Obasanjo ** AGF Abubakar Malami…
Says “Yoruba people will use their intellectual power to fight for freedom, exit Nigeria” In what could be likened to an innovative way of fighting…
The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General Benard Onyeuko, has disclosed that 1,081 terrorists with their families have surrendered to troops due tooverwhelming kinetic…
The Catholic bishop of Sokoto diocese, Matthew Kukah, says President Buhari owes Nigerians an explanation on when insecurity will end in the country. The cleric…
Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State has formally launched its security outfit in the state capital, Abakiliki, named Abubeagu. He asked the group not to…
Islamic human rights organisation, Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has returned the blames of the current killings, kidnapping and destruction going on in the Northern part…
The Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) faction of the Boko Haram terrorists has sent threat letters to attack some communities in Adamawa State…
Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja while speaking to journalists on the sideline of the Oct. 1, China-Nigeria friendship…
** 2023: I won’t turn down your calls, Tinubu tells Nigerians ** Buhari nominates new minister, seeks Senate’s confirmation ** Buhari nominates 12 National Commissioners…
Sultan of Sokoto and the President General of Jama’atu Nasril Islam, (JNI), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, Sunday gave reasons Nigeria is in trouble. He…
Gunmen have demanded over N1 million as levies from different communities in the Zurmi, Kaura Namoda and Birnin-Magaji local government areas of Zamfara State. The…
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has said his senior brother was kidnapped by bandits and he had to pay a ransom to get him released. Gumi made…
The Hausa Association of Nigeria (Kungiyar Hausawan Nijeriya or KUNHAN) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign as a result of his administration’s apparent…
The former Governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa did not find it easy with Buhari’s visit to Lagos for a book launch because of insecurity…
** Insecurity: Buhari sends NSA, IGP, DSS DG, others to Sokoto, Katsina ** Report bullies to school authorities, Sanwo-Olu advises students ** Ayu promises to…
The Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa, established by the EconomicCommunity of West African States, says Boko Haram splinter group, Islamic State…
Nigerian clergyman, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has stated that he will no longer take part in negotiations with bandits. The cleric revealed the reasons behind his…
Kogi State Commissioner for Environment, Chief Victor Adewale Omofaiye on Sunday escaped Kidnap attempt between Oke-Ijumu and Iyara in Ijumu Local Government Area. The incident…
Popular Nigerian Journalist, Babajide Kolade Otitoju, has revealed one of the methods used by Boko Haram inrecruiting members into the terrorist organisation. Babajide explained the…
** COVID-19: Nigerian government directs all workers to resume, get vaccinated ** Beware, Be Prepared, COVID-19 fighting back – Buhari ** Declaration of bandits as…
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Fugar Division in Etsako Central local government area of Edo state, identified as Ibrahim Ishaq has been reported kidnapped…
** ‘God told me there’ll be no elections in 2023’ – Prophet warns IGP, AGF, Defence Minister ** Fix refineries before removing subsidy, Catholic knights…
Renowned Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has said that the insecurity in Nigeria was a dark cloud that would soon pass. In a…
**NLC rejects proposed N5,000 stipend to replace petrol subsidy **Reps order probe of FG’s abandoned N97bn cancer centre **Sanwo-Olu Presents N1.388tr 2022 Consolidation Budget **NORTH-WEST…
An unspecified number of travellers have been abducted alongthe Kaduna-Abuja highway.A video released online showed two empty vehicles, which appeared to have been abandoned in…
** Buhari approves February for APC’s national convention ** Aisha Buhari elected President of African First Ladies Peace Mission ** Yoruba leaders should talk to…
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State and former governor Abdulaziz Yari were at the funeral of a one-timegovernorship aspirant, Sagir Hamidu, who was killed along…
A Brigadier-General, who is a commander in the Nigerian Army, has been shot dead in an ambush by fighters of the Islamic State of West…
Suspected fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province(ISWAP) are currently in a gun duel with troops at a military base in Askira/Uba Local…
** Nigerians will be lifted out of poverty – FG Insists ** FG increases Electricity Meter Price ** INEC presents Certificate of Return to Soludo,…