NIGERIAN Army weapons instructor Lance Corporal Jibrin Biu has committed suicide by shooting himself up after being arrested when he was found out to be a double agent who was operating as a Boko Haram terrorist.
Attached to the Nigerian Army 159 Battalion in Geidam, under the Nigerian Army 27 Task Force Brigade in Buni...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been visited by Yobe State governor and the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) caretaker extraordinary convention planning committee Governor Mai Mala Buni at his London home where he is recuperating.
In the UK for a two week health holiday during which he is meeting with his...
ARMED terrorists from the Boko Haram breakaway faction the Islamic State of West African Province (Iswap) have taken over the town of Gujba in Yobe State and razed down a fertilizer blending factory after looting the local government headquarters.
Iswap broke away from Boko Haram and last year enjoyed significant military...
INDIGENOUS People of Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu has condemned the recent overtures by the Nigerian Army to terrorist sects Boko Haram and Islamic State in West African Province (Iswap) in which they were offered an amnesty if they laid down their arms.
Last week, the Nigerian Army called on both organisations to take...
GOVERNOR Ben Ayade of Cross River State has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in a surprise move which he attributed to how impressed he is with the performance of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Announcing the defection during a meeting with six APC governors who visited...
Ayo Akinfe
Register and licence local vigilante groups
Establish 20 battalions in strategic towns in the north east
Commence building of a fence along the borders with Chad/Cameroon/Niger
Offer free uniforms and school meals to all youths in the area to encourage education
Get the Lake Chad Basin Authority to create 30,000...
CHRISTIAN Association of Nigeria (Can) officials have welcomed the appointment of Usman Alkali Baba as the new acting inspector-general of police saying he is a man of integrity who is certain to tackle the insecurity menace in a professional manner.
Yesterday, President Muhammadu Buhari named deputy inspector-general of...
GOVERNMENT Girls’ Science and Technical College Dapchi abducted pupil Leah Sharibu has given birth to her second child after three years in Boko Haram captivity according to the US-Nigeria Law Group.
In 2018, Leah was kidnapped along with several of her classmates from Dapchi in Yobe State but was not released with the...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is to meet with the just-released Government Science Secondary School Kankara schoolboys at the presidential villa in Kastina today to show his solidarity with them.
Last weekend, the boys were abducted from their school in Katsina State by armed bandits hired by terrorist sect Boko Haram....