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🚨 A new militant group, the Lakurawa, has emerged in Nigeria’s northwest, particularly in Sokoto and Kebbi states. Linked to jihadist factions in the Sahel, this group is causing alarm with its strict Islamic laws, kidnappings, and attacks on government ...

Troops of 26 Task Force Brigade deployed in Sector One of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, have successfully neutralized 7 Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) and rescued 73 persons in two separate clearance operations in Sirdawala and Valley of Gwoza Local Government Area ...

  Traders in Ebonyi who obverse the sit- at -home order by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra on Wednesday, May 30, will permanently forfeit their shops , Governor David Umahi said on Tuesday. Umahi , who made the declaration in ...

In what could best be described as a turning point in the ongoing clearance operations in the North East, yesterday, Tuesday 15th August 2017, the Theatre Commander Operation LAFIYA DOLE, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, launched 3 Mobile Strike Teams (MST) ...

The Nigerian Senate has listed about 42 anti-malaria drugs that have been banned in Europe but are still sold in hospitals and pharmacies in Nigeria.  The lawmakers raised the alarm that all the forty two anti-malaria drugs were still being ...

The management of Continental Broadcasting Service, owners of Television Continental, TVC, today sacked 145 members of its staff. TVC is owned by National Leader of APC, Bola Tinubu. Among the cause of the mass sack is bloated workforce and high ...

Finally, President Muhammadu Buhari has caved in to pressure from the Nigerian Senate to suspend the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal. A statement by the Presidential spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina on Wednesday said. Recall that ...

Troops have foiled two suicide bomb attempts targeted at a military location in Yamtakei in Gwoza Local Government Area in Borno on Thursday and killed five terrorists involved in the attempts. One soldier also died in the failed attempts. According ...

The transporters under the aegis of Association of Private Transport Company Owners of Nigeria (APTCON) made the announcement in a recent notice. The increment is due to the prevailing harsh operating business environment, which has seen cost of operations rise ...