Tag: Insecurity

The Nigeria Police Force, Kwara State Command has confirmed the arrest of one Mohammed Bello, aka Dandolo, alleged to be a notorious kidnapper ...

A group, Citizens’ Engagement on Police Reform in Nigeria, North Central zone, has proffered solutions to the inefficiency of the policing system in ...

The President of the Ilorin LikeMinds Foundation, a socio-cultural group, Alhaji Saheed Alakoso has tasked the government at all levels to be more ...

A renowned Ilorin based-Islamic scholar, Prof. Lanre Badmus has advised President Bola Tinubu to be more passionate in tackling hunger,

Bishop Matthew Kukah has faulted the distribution of palliative to Nigerians in the wake of the biting hardship facing the country.  The government’s ...

Worried by the security challenges facing the country, 16 state governors have endorsed the establishment of state police. The National Economic Council (NEC) ...

The Nigerian Guild of Investigative Journalists (NGIJ) has calls on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress led-administration to swiftly address ...

Gunmen on Saturday killed the Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau State, Sylvanus Namang, and one other person. According ...

The Kaduna State governor, Uba Sani, has said the menace of insecurity plaguing a large portion of the North can be put to ...

The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps Brig. Gen. YD Ahmed has charged Corps members to be particular on the issue ...

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, yesterday, lamented that many Nigerians are suffering difficult times bedeviling ...

Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, on Wednesday, inaugurated 2,646 Community Protection Guards (CPGs) to work with the security agencies to fight the terrorists ...

The Ekiti State Government has confirmed the abduction of students, teachers, and a driver in the Emure-Ekiti area of the state but vowed ...

The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, said the establishment of state police is an idea whose time has come, noting that ...

MAKURDI-Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has barred chairmen of local government areas, LGAs, in the state from leaving their council headquarters without ...

Towards curbing the growing insecurity bothering on kidnapping, armed robbery, rape, extra – judicial killings and other violent crimes in Akwa Ibom State, ...

A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, today Thursday sentenced Sarkin Fulani of Kwara, Usman Adamu, his brother and one Gidaddo Idris ...

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday visited the military troops involved in the Still Waters III exercise in Oro Ago town in ...

By abiodun KOMOLAFE At a programme in honour of the reconstituted North-East Development Commission (NEDC) recently, Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, warned ...

The Kwara State Government has stated its commitment to regulate the operation of scavengers in the state, to ensure the security of lives ...

The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle lamented in Abuja, Thursday, that the problem of insecurity bedeviling the country was not properly ...

The federal government Monday tackled the United States’ travel advisory issued recently, describing it as unwarranted and one likely to create needless panic ...

The Nigerian Airforce on Wednesday took delivery of the last 2 sets of four Diamond 62 multi-purpose platform special mission aircraft to the ...

Governor Dikko Umaru Radda of Katsina state has launched the Katsina State Community Watch Corps, which will complement efforts by security agencies to ...

By abiodun KOMOLAFE Temitope Oladipo Fayehun must be passing through hard times. A native of Ilesa in Osun State, Fayehun’s ordeal started on ...

Governor Dauda Lawal, on Wednesday, inaugurated the steering committee of the Community Protection Guard (CPG). A statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Sulaiman Idris, ...

The new Commissioner of Police in Kwara State, Victor Olaiya has vowed to boost security by dealing ruthlessly with all manner of crime ...

There has been a disturbing rise in cases of kidnapping across the country. The elite are not the only targets of kidnappers; workers, ...

Traders, importers, exporters, manufacturers and other captains of industries in Anambra State have lamented that their businesses were crumbling daily over insecurity, touting, ...

The National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Professor Mahmood Aliyu has described the palliative the Federal Government is rolling out ...

Minister of Defence Muhammed Abubakar Badaru Tuesday said he will demand timelines and targets from Service Chiefs on when to end insecurity in ...

Against the backdrop of call on President Bola Ahmad Tinubu to negotiate with bandits by former Zamfara State Governor, the former Secretary to ...

Mr Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party at the 2023 elections, says he can’t celebrate his 62nd birthday with over 327 ...

As part of an effort to tackle the menace of insecurity, the people of Isanlu-Isin Community in Isin Local Government area of Kwara ...

A group of security experts in the country on Monday in the ancient town of Offa, Offa local government area of Kwara state ...

Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday handed over ten patrol vans to the Nigeria Police Force, to enable them provide effective security ...

Worried by the economic woes and insecurity Nigerians face across the country, the 36 states’ governors, on the platform of the Nigeria Governors ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kwara State chapter has charged Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to wake up to his responsibility of protecting lives and ...