Tag: terrorism
Deadly Terrorist Ambush Claims Lives of Traders in Katsina State
At least eight traders lost their lives, and several others sustained injuries during a terrorist attack on a convoy heading to the Yantumaki weekly...
Police Launch Manhunt for Armed Insurgents Following Attack on Officers in...
UGA, Anambra, December 28, 2023: The Anambra State Police Command has initiated an extensive manhunt for armed insurgents believed to have infiltrated from a...
IGP Orders Swift Action in Wake of Plateau Killings
ABUJA, December 27, 2023 - In response to the recent devastating attacks on several villages in Plateau State, Nigeria, resulting in tragic loss of...
Gumi’s Extremism Shames Decency
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, 60, is a medical doctor and retired army captain. But he has not had a job after retirement 37 years ago....
Terrorism: We’ll not rest until peace is fully restored, IDPs returned...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured citizens of Federal Government’s presence in fighting terrorism to the end and ensuring that Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are...
EFCC joins Army in fight against terrorism
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stressed the need for the Nigerian Army and the Commission to collaborate in the fight against...
Russia urges Belarus to release ‘wrongly accused’ men
Russia demanded an explanation from Belarus on Thursday over what it said was Minsk’s wrongful arrest of a group of alleged Russian mercenaries accused...
Yemeni rebels pressed by Saudi coalition
The Saudi-led coalition on Monday said it had intercepted and destroyed four missiles and seven bomb-laden drones launched by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels toward...
Gunmen kill 7 in Pakistani Stock Exchange attack
Gunmen attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange building in the city of Karachi on Monday, killing two guards and a policeman before security forces killed...
2 Pakistani soldiers injured in terrorist attacks
Two Pakistani soldiers were critically injured when a remote-controlled device went off in the country’s North Waziristan district, a security official said on Saturday.
The...
We’ll Rid Northeast, Katsina of Banditry, Air Force Chief
The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has vowed that personnel of the Nigerian Air Force would get rid of bandits...
Counter terrorism: Nigeria, Chad, Niger to set up Joint Operations Headquarters
A multilateral meeting of Nigerian, Chadian and Nigerien military delegation on counter terrorism has resolved to establish and activate a Joint Operations Headquarters immediately,...
Taliban survivor Malala in Nigeria, pledges to help free girls
Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, has pledged while on...
Nigeria local authorities say most of abducted schoolgirls still missing
Authorities in Nigeria's northeast Borno state denied on Thursday a statement by the armed forces which had said most of the more than 100...
Boko Haram kills 20 in Yobe mosque
No fewer than 20 worshippers who had gone to pray at a mosque on Saturday morning were killed by gunmen suspected to be members...
Sanusi under probe for terror financing
THE Federal Government, yesterday, said it was investigating suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, on suspicions of...
Turkish Airlines allegedly ships arms to Nigeria, tape reveals
Turkish Airlines allegedly shipped weapons to unknown groups in Nigeria, which has been ravaged by violence between the army and Boko Haram militants, a...
