Shi’a-Military Face-Off: Five Years After
Time, it is said, heals all wounds. But for some victims of the Shi’a-military clashes of 2015 in Zaria, five years have not done the magic. In this video we take a look at what has happened since the event…
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Nigeria’s ‘Forgotten’ Abducted Students
For some years, schools in Nigeria have been at the centre of attacks by kidnappers. The attacks, which led to abductions of students, also destroyed many lives and homes. Hundreds of students still in captivity, including some Chibok girls, abducted…
Kidnappers In FCT Begin Collection Of Ransom Through Banks
Kidnappers operating in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are becoming more daring by the day as they have started collecting ransom from their victims via bank accounts contrary to their usual style of receiving cash, Daily Trust reports. Last week alone, Daily Trust reported…
Hunger Looms As Insecurity Scares Farmers Away
Farmers in crisis-prone areas are finding it difficult to access their farmlands due to the spate of insecurity. Daily Trust Saturday reports their plight in some of the affected states with many of them saying there would be a food…
How Incessant Attacks Threaten 2023 Elections
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday, said the series of attacks on the commission’s facilities may undermine its capacity to organize elections and negatively impact the country’s electoral processes. Yakubu made the…
Terrorism Financing: 180 BDC Operators Pay N900m Penalties To CBN
At least 180 Bureau De Change (BDC) operators nabbed by security operatives for alleged link to terrorism financing paid N900 million in penalties before they returned to their businesses, Daily Trust reports. This comes as BDC operators and other traders rounded up…
How Unregistered Motorcycles Aid Banditry, Other Crimes In North-West
Bandits and other sundry criminals in North-West are having a field day perpetrating their nefarious activities without a trace by using unregistered motorcycles to traverse most parts of northern Nigeria’s hinterlands where road accessibility remains a challenge. People in many…
Boko Haram: Victims Recount ISWAP’s 5-Day Reign Of Terror In Geidam
Residents of Geidam now live in fear following the five-day occupation of their town by Boko Haram insurgents. The terrorists have attacked the town located in the northern part of Yobe State four times this year alone. Even though the…
How Boko Haram Survives On Weapons Stolen From Nigerian Military
When about 30 armored vehicles procured from around the world arrived at the battle-front, military high commands in Abuja thought that would soon turn the tide in the intractable insurgency in the northeast part of the country. Soon, a tally…
Anger As 3 Abducted Greenfield Varsity Students Found Dead
Bandits who abducted an unspecified number of students from the Greenfield University Kaduna on Tuesday have murdered three of the students and dumped their remains near the school premises. The killings have sparked outrage from right groups and fears among…