Daily Trust on Sunday has learnt that policemen posted to the South East are seeking redeployment following the spate of killings of security operatives in the region. Tens of policemen have lost their lives in several attacks on police formations [...]
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said the myriad of challenges confronting Nigeria would not consume the country. Obasanjo, at the 108th edition of Nigeria Baptist Convention held at Baptist International Conference Centre, Lufuwape town, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, expressed optimism [...]
In collaboration with the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), the police have intercepted 480 suspected illegal migrants in the Upper East region of Ghana. This news was confirmed to Asaase News by the Upper East Regional Public Relations Officer of the [...]
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Edo Command, says it foiled a jailbreak attempt by inmates at the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) facility, Ubiaja, Esan South East Local Government Area. Richard Ogbebor, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the command [...]
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has said insecurity will be minimal if parents become more responsible in the upbringing of their children. He said while the government would strive to make the society better, parents must nurture their children to [...]
The Katsina State committee on COVID-19 headed by Deputy Governor Manir Yakubu, has called on citizens to report any returnee from Lagos and Abuja. The chairman of the sensitisation sub-committee and Commissioner for Information, Hadi Mohamed Serika, told reporters on [...]
Afenifere, Tinubu meet Buhari, seek true federalism, othersPiqued by the raging insecurity in the south-west, state governors of the region yesterday made a strong case for the establishment of state and council police to complement the efforts of the federal [...]
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tuesday, lambasted the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris for constituting a panel of investigation over the alleged threatening phone call by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. The PDP in a statement [...]
The Greek tragic dramatize and philosopher Aeschylus (525 BC – 456 BC) said “in war, truth is the first casualty”. It is in this context that one has to view the absurd claims by the DSS that massive sums of [...]
The British government has said it will give Nigeria one million pounds [about N262 million] to assist on comprehensive reformation of her Prisons. United Kingdom’s Minister of Justice, Mr. Jeremy Wright revealed this while responding to questions from newsmen when [...]
38 suspected members of the Islamist Boko Haram sect were liquidated by the troops of 7th Division of the Nigerian Army in the early hours of January 9, 2014, Thursday, as they planned to attack Damboa town of Borno state. [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan said, yesterday, that the war against terror can be won and that the government was winning the war. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, in a statement to debunk media reports [...]
The country’s first indigenous unmanned aerial vehicle, GULMA, designed and constructed by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), was presented to President Goodluck Jonathan in Kaduna on December 17, 2013, Tuesday. At the same time, despite some rumours that the UAV [...]
MILITARY authorities in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has said that air bombardment of insurgents’ hideouts in Mainok and Mada general areas of Kaga and Konduga local government areas by the Nigerian Air Force has led to the death of [...]
The partnership between Nigeria and the United States of America is set to be strengthened, with the latter’s commitment to assist Nigeria in tackling terrorism and the worrisome case of oil bunkering, the Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, in the [...]
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