*As Gov. Makinde says it’ll be difficult for any other party to take Rivers from PDP Governor of Rivers State,  Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, says members of the All Progressives Congress, (APC)  Governors Forum cannot only acknowledge the worsening insecurity across the country and shy away from accepting the fact... Read more

Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle, says he finds it insulting for the ruling All Progressives Congress to accuse him of sponsoring bandits in his state. The Zamfara State governor, who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2019, said the state was “a colony of... Read more

The Presidency has called on Nigerians to be thankful that bombings no longer take place in the country daily. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said this on Channels Television’s ‘Sunday Politics’ programme on Sunday. Adesina, who is the President’s most senior media... Read more

Bandits have attacked the convoy of the Emir of Kaura Namoda, HRH Sanusi Muhammad Asha, along Zaria-Funtua road, killing three policemen and five others. Relatives of the Emir told Channels Television on Friday that the incident happened on Thursday night when the monarch was on his way back to... Read more

President Muhammadu Buhari, today, Friday Dec. 18, 2020, met with the released students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, in Katsina State. This comes about an hour after the Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashir Ahmad, made the announcement in a tweet. The President who received... Read more

Hours after a video surfaced of the students abducted by armed bandits at the Kankara Secondary School in Katsina State, the gunmen have released the boys. According to reports from the area, the released boys are currently in Shafe, a border community between Zamfara and Katsina States. A source... Read more

The following piece is from an interview granted by Dr Abubakar Siddique Mohammed, the Director, Centre for Democratic Development Research and Training, Zango Shanu, Zaria, whose centre carried out a research on banditry, kidnapping and killings in Zamfara and Katsina states. He speaks on the findings of their research.... Read more

Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed it was behind the abduction of hundreds of students in northwestern Nigeria, in what appears to be a major expansion of the jihadist group’s activities into new areas. At least 333 students are still missing since the attack late Friday on the all-boys Government... Read more

As if to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari to his Daura hometown in Katsina State, Friday, December 11, 2020, armed bandits prowling freely in the state stormed a secondary school in nearby Kankara community and abducted a yet to be determined number of students. President Buhari arrived Katsina and headed... Read more

Faisal Maina, the son of the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, who escaped from justice, has been rearrested. He was rearrested by security operatives on Wednesday night after he was declared wanted by the Federal High Court in Abuja. The Economic and Financial... Read more