In a high-tension standoff at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai successfully resisted an attempted arrest by security operatives on Thursday. The incident, which occurred shortly after El-Rufai disembarked from an Egypt Air flight from Cairo, underscores the deepening “asymmetric threats” facing political opposition figures in Nigeria’s current transition […]
Armed men suspected to be law enforcement agents, on Saturday, reportedly razed residential houses belonging to one Sonyval and Chinonso Madu, siblings of Mr Uche Madu, who is alleged to be a member of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) group in Umuonyeoka Community in Ihitteafoukwu, Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State. DAILY POST […]
*As Yakubu says INEC will proceed with the election Tunde Opalana, Abuja Ahead of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State, the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Munguno (rtd), has warned criminal elements threatening to scuttle the poll to have a rethink as security agents are ready to crush any act inimical to […]
SAKA BOLAJI – MINNA Twenty three days after about 136 pupils of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya school in Tegina, Rafi Local Government were taken away by bandits, Niger State government on Monday directed over 1000 combined security agencies to ensure their release without further delay. Governor Abubakar Sanni Bello who addressed the combined security agencies comprising […]
The army has revealed how security agents prevented an attack by insurgents on Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. Recall that eight suspected Boko Haram insurgents were killed by security operatives on Tuesday, following an unsuccessful attempt to attack Jiddari Polo area in Maiduguri. The insurgents were said to have entered the area through a cashew […]
…11 soldiers killed in Rivers, Borno …Gunmen kill 19 persons in Anambra …Bandits kill two more Greenfield University student Amaka Agbu (Port Harcourt), Nkiru Nwagbo (Awka), Idibia Gabriel (Kaduna) and Andrew Orolua (Abuja) Less than 48 hours after some security agents were killed at various check points in Rivers, suspected gunmen have again carried out […]
The Kaduna state Security Council said security agents have been mandated to strictly enforce the restriction of movement order in the state. It stressed that the movement restrictions was only relaxed on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Commissioner, Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan made the clarification in a statement issued on Thursday in Kaduna. […]
A non-governmental organization, Cleen Foundation, has urged the federal government to establish more testing centres and provide personal protective equipment for security agents across the country. Executive Director of the foundation, Mr. Benson Olugbuo, made the appeal in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. He called for synergy between the federal and state governments. Olugbuo […]
Following flagrant disregard to the sit-at-home order by the Delta state Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, over the ravaging coronavirus pandemic, six churches were in the early hours of Thursday sealed in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state, while three persons found along the Benin Asaba Expressway were arrested by security agents. Confirming this to […]
Two months after her husband was allegedly whisked away by security agents, friends and family of Mr. Frank Okoli have not recovered from the shock and pain that hit them. In a Gestapo manner, Policemen numbering about ten invaded his church on January 30, shot sporadically into the air, inflicted various degrees of injury on […]