Nigeria: Tinubu Reappoints Buba Marwa As NDLEA Chairman

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has renewed the appointment of Brigadier-General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd) as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement… Read more »

Nigeria: Four Policemen, 3 Forest Guards Arrested Over Illegal Demolition

Operatives of the X-Squad, Force Criminal Investigation Department, FCIDAnnex, Alagbon, Lagos, have arrested four policemen and three armed forest guards for allegedly… Read more »

Nigeria: DSS Files Charges Against Social Media User Who Called for Coup

The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed a six-count charge against a 27-year-old man, Innocent Chukwuemeka Onukwume, for, among others, allegedly advocating for a military… Read more »

Nigeria: Tinubu Can Intervene in Nnamdi Kanu's Trial, Onoh Counters Wesley

Contrary to President Bola Tinubu's Special Assistant on community engagement (southeast), Mrs. Chioma Wesley's defence on why the President was yet to intervene on the trial of… Read more »

Nigeria: Military Veterans Berate Wike Over Clash With Naval Officer, Demand Apology

Military veterans in the country have berated the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, over the confrontation with a naval officer during an enforcement visit to… Read more »

Nigeria: NDLEA, Foreign Agencies Probe Cartel Behind 1,000kg Cocaine Bust

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it is working with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the United Kingdom National Crime Agency (NCA)… Read more »

Nigeria: Police Deny Smuggling Names of Politicians Into Academy Admission List

The Force headquarters has described as barefaced lie, a report in an online medium alleging that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun smuggled some names from… Read more »

Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu Moves to Stop Court From Ruling On Terrorism Charges

The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja not to go ahead with its plan to deliver judgment on the… Read more »

Nigeria: Panic As Gunmen Abduct 6 Defence Ministry Directors On Way to Abuja

Panic has gripped the Federal Civil Service following the abduction of six Directors of the Federal Ministry of Defence by suspected gunmen along the Kaba-Lokoja highway. Read more »

Nigeria: COAS Tasks Military Police On Upholding Discipline, Regimentation in Army

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Waidi Shaibu, has charged the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police (NACMP) to uphold the highest standards of discipline, regimentation,… Read more »

Nigeria: Lastma Nabs Intoxicated Motorist for Allegedly Killing Woman in Lagos

A yet-to-be-identified elderly woman has been crushed to death by a white Pathfinder Jeep reportedly driven by an intoxicated motorist along Almaroof, inward Pleasure, Oke-Odo area… Read more »

Nigeria: Human Rights Lawyer Offers Free Legal Defence for Regina Daniels' Brother

Human rights activist Tony Dania has declared his intention to represent Sam West, brother of Nollywood actress Regina Daniels, in the unfolding dispute tied to the actress's… Read more »

Nigeria: Four Nigerians, Others Jailed 55 Years Over London Phone Robbery Spree

Four Nigerians have been handed lengthy prison sentences in the United Kingdom for their roles in a violent phone robbery syndicate that terrorised mobile phone outlets across… Read more »

Nigeria: Police Insist On Arrest of Sowore Over Alleged Plan to Incite Violent Protest in Lagos

The Lagos State Police Command has reiterated its intention to arrest political activist and former presidential candidate of African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, over… Read more »

Nigeria: Monarch, 1,800 Killed in S-East in 2 Years - Amnesty International

Data released by Amnesty International has revealed that more than 1,800 people, including a monarch, have been killed across Nigeria's South-East region in just over two years. Read more »

Nigeria: Insecurity - NAF Strikes Kill Terrorists, Bandits in Borno, Kwara, Katsina, Others

The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has upped its counter-terrorism and counter-banditry operations nationwide with a series of precision airstrikes that neutralised scores of Islamic… Read more »

Nigeria: Why We Declared Timipre Sylva Wanted - EFCC

...As Ijaw youths kick Read more »

Nigeria: President Trump's Remarks On Christian Genocide in Nigeria - Issues and Solutions

Early this month, U.S. President Donald Trump directed the American military to ready itself for intervention in Nigeria to combat Islamist militant groups, accusing the government… Read more »

Nigeria: Historical Mistrust, Land-Grabbing, Banditry Driving Violence in North-Central - Presidency

... Tinubu receives zonal briefs on security, infrastructure, grassroots engagement Read more »

Nigeria: Former Envoy Raises Alarm Over Alleged Plot to Destabilise Benue Govt

Former Nigerian High Commissioner to Namibia, Dr. Terhemen Tarzoor, has raised the alarm over what he described as a "well-funded plot" by some political actors to destabilise the… Read more »

Nigeria: Fresh Twist in PDP Crisis As Oyo Judge Faces NJC Petition Over Convention Order

The crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a new dimension as three party stakeholders aligned with the Wike bloc have petitioned the National Judicial Council… Read more »

Nigeria: Ned Nwoko Vs Regina Daniels - Basketmouth Cautions Couples Against Publicizing Marital Issues

...Warns of Long-Term Harm to Children Read more »

Nigeria: NHRC Flays Arbitrary Arrest, Detention of Journalists

... as NUJ insists on zero-tolerance policy for harassment Read more »

Nigeria: EFCC Declares Ex-Minister Timipre Sylva Wanted

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has declared former Governor of Bayelsa and former Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva wanted. Read more »

Nigeria: Boko Haram, ISWAP Clash Claims 200 Lives in Lake Chad Region - Sources

Clashes between rival jihadist factions in northeast Nigeria have claimed some 200 lives in the restive Lake Chad area, intelligence, militia and jihadist sources told AFP Monday. Read more »