Bello Matawalle warns that any security efforts without his involvement "will amount to nothing." The rift between the federal government andZamfara State over security strategy has taken on fresh ...

Many of the bandits who are part of the criminal gangs of the north-west hide out in forested areas Nigeria is currently grappling with a spate of mass abductions. But the vast country - bigger than ...

Anyone who thinks December in Nigeria is just about jollof rice, suya, and recycled holiday greetings hasn’t been paying attention. Every year, Nigerians quietly transform the last month of the year ...

The growing climate of insecurity in Abuja, the nation's capital, intensified last night as seven mourners were kidnapped by bandits at the border community of Gidan Bijimi, a rural settlement in ...

The killing of Nigeria’s Brigadier General Musa Uba, in mid-November 2025, by the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, ...

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, has explained that ongoing maintenance exercise by the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, is the reason for the blackout in parts of Abuja. The ...

(Abuja) – Nigerian authorities should act urgently to secure the safe release of students and teachers recently kidnapped in the country’s northwest and take concrete steps to protect schools and ...

Northern Nigeria plagued by 15 years of insurgencies Kidnappers demand ransom for kidnapped worshippers Kidnapping attacks motivated by money, schools easy targets Nigeria's military stretched, some ...

Fifty students who were abducted from a Catholic school in northern Nigeria on Friday have returned to their families after they managed to escape, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on ...

Northern Nigeria plagued by 15 years of insurgencies Catholic school kidnapping among the worst since Chibok Kidnappers demand ransom for seized worshippers Kidnapping attacks motivated by money, ...