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Nigeria Declares Kidnappers Terrorists In Security Shift Now

Nigeria Declares Kidnappers Terrorists In Security Shift Now

December 24, 2025 9:39 am

Nigerian Government says armed groups attacking farmers and communities will face full terrorist designation as Tinubu orders tougher internal security policy.

Nigeria’s Federal Government has formally classified kidnappers and armed groups attacking civilians as terrorists, signaling a major escalation in the country’s response to persistent insecurity across rural and urban areas.

The announcement was made Monday December 22, 2025, by the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, during an end-of-year media briefing in the capital, Abuja. He said President Bola Tinubu had approved the policy shift, ending what officials described as years of ambiguous labeling of violent criminal …

Naira Redesign El-Rufai Needs To Stop Deluding Himself

Naira Redesign: El-Rufai Needs To Stop Deluding Himself

February 23, 2023 4:35 am

Politics, for Nigerian politicians, is a mere clash of interests which they often manage to masquerade as a contest of principles. For them, politics is simply an avenue that allows them to make their selfish desires seem like national interests without raising so much suspicion. 

Of a truth, millions of innocent and law-abiding Nigerians did not see the current naira swap saga coming. Over the past two weeks, the cash redesign policy has seen an unexpected wave of cash crunch visited on the long-suffering populace without the brains behind it considering the grave implications on them or how to cushion …

Edo Train Attack: A Case Of Coordinated State Failure

Edo Train Attack: A Case Of Coordinated State Failure

January 26, 2023 5:21 am

Terrorists, criminals, kidnappers, and non-state actors have never been this emboldened in Nigeria’s history. Almost like an ungoverned space, the Nigerian state is growing weaker by the day and the reality of the average citizen is becoming scarier. With Nigeria already exhibiting clear signs of State failure, it will only be a matter of time before Africa’s most popular country caves in and becomes a full-blown failed state if nothing drastic is done to curtail the pacy downward slide.

A few weeks ago, barely a year after the Abuja-Kaduna train attack, criminals struck again, this time they attacked a …

Buhari Reacts To Release Of 23 Train Hostages

Buhari Reacts To Release Of 23 Train Hostages

October 6, 2022 5:04 am

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his joy and satisfaction, and that of the entire country with the military as well as other security agencies on the safe release of the remaining 23 kidnapped train passengers held in captivity by terrorists for 6 months.

While reacting to the news of the safe release of the hostages in line with his earlier directives, President Buhari pointed out that the nation owed the military and all other security and intelligence agencies a debt of gratitude for the successful conduct of the operation leading to the release of the hostages, …

17 Boko Haram Terrorists, Family Members Surrender To Army

17 Boko Haram Terrorists, Family Members Surrender To Army

September 21, 2022 8:33 am

The Nigerian Army has revealed that seventeen Boko Haram terrorists, including their families have surrendered to troops of 151 Task Force Battalion deployed to Banki-Junction in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.

The Army made the revelation on Tuesday via its verified Twitter handle.

It twitted that the mass surrender of the terrorists and their families was due to renewed military onslaught by gallant troops of Operation Hadin Kai in the North-East region.

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“Profiling of the surrendered terrorists is ongoing”, the Army twitted.

According to reports, a …

Herdsmen And Terrorists Have Common Agenda – Ortom Tells USA

Herdsmen And Terrorists Have Common Agenda – Ortom Tells USA

September 7, 2022 5:29 am

The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has alleged that a good number of Fulani herdsmen are currently operating in collaboration with terrorist groups to sustain their attacks on the state.

The governor made the allegation on Wednesday while speaking in an interview with Epoch Times TV in Washington, DC, United States of America, USA.

Ortom during the interview anchored by Douglas Burton, pointed out that from the highly placed information available to him, terrorist groups including the Boko Haram, ISIS, ISWAP, and armed Fulani herdsmen are working for one agenda.

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Insecurity Nigeria Is Very Safe Now - Lai Mohammed

Insecurity: Nigeria Is Very Safe Now – Lai Mohammed

September 6, 2022 5:50 am

The federal government of Nigeria has certified Nigeria a safe country, assuring that terrorists, bandits and their cohorts would never hold citizens of the country to ransom again.

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, gave the country’s security a clean bill of health at a joint press briefing in Abuja with three of his counterparts: the ministers of Defence, Bashir Salihi Magashi; Police Affairs, Mohammed Maigari Dingyadi; Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.

With them at the briefing was the Chief of Defence Staff Lucky Irabor.

Speaking on the security situation in the country, Mohammed said as far as the ‘daunting …

Ex-Soldier Arrested For Supplying Terrorists With Arms

Ex-Soldier Arrested For Supplying Terrorists With Arms

September 1, 2022 5:54 am

Reports reaching Africa Daily News, New York has it that an ex-soldier have been arrested for allegedly providing terrorists who lurk in the northwestern state with ammunitions; a couple of other notorious bandits were also arrested.

Sa’idu Lawal, the prime suspect, is alleged to have terrorized localities in the states of Niger, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, and Kaduna – making life unbearable for residents of these states.

Despite his voluntary retirement from the Nigerian Army in 2021, Sa’idu Lawal, a native of Zamfara State, has been providing armed support to bandits in the North West.

On his way to deliver ammunition …

We’ll Speak To Terrorists In Language They Understand –Buhari

We’ll Speak To Terrorists In Language They Understand –Buhari

August 24, 2022 5:45 am

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has ordered security agents to go after terrorists within the country’s borders and restore law and order.

Buhari pointed out that security agents have been given the mandate to hunt, pursue, and speak to terrorists in the language they understand.

He made this known while speaking at the Citizens Summit for National Integration, Peace, and Security organized by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations and Partners, held in Abuja.

The President who was represented by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Buhari said terrorists would be expunged from Nigeria.

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Terrorists Order Kaduna Farmers To Pay ‘Ransom In Advance’

Terrorists Order Kaduna Farmers To Pay ‘Ransom In Advance’

August 22, 2022 4:15 am

The Chairman of Birnin-Gwari Emirate Progressives Union (BEPU), Ishaq Usman Kasai, yesterday raised the alarm over the recent discovery that a very huge amount is now being demanded by terrorists in their communities before they could allow them to go to farms and successfully harvest their farm produce.

According to him the huge amount is meant to serve as ransom payment in ‘advance’ for them to have free access to their farms.

In a statement he issued to journalists in Kaduna on Sunday, he stated that they have no option than to negotiate with the terrorists as farming activities have …

Bandits Invade Katsina Metropolis, Kill 4, Abduct Scores

Bandits Invade Katsina Metropolis, Kill 4, Abduct Scores

August 8, 2022 5:12 am

There is apprehension that terrorists may have relocated to the Katsina metropolis in numbers after four people were killed and many others kidnapped over the weekend in the state.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that terrorists had yesterday struck in the metropolis, killing two members of a local vigilance group behind the Umaru Musa Yar’adua University Teaching Hospital (Federal Medical Centre) in the heart of the city.

Residents of Shola Quarters said the terrorists invaded the area at about 2am, abducting an unconfirmed number of persons, among them a couple, Yusuf Bishir and his wife, who just wedded.

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Ethiopia Troops Engages Al-Shabab Fighters In Gun Duel

Ethiopia Troops Engages Al-Shabab Fighters In Gun Duel

July 30, 2022 7:45 am

The Somali Islamist militant group, al-Shabaab, has launched an attack on the town of Aato on the Ethiopian border for the second time in just over a week.

A senior Ethiopian security official told the BBC that fighting broke out early on Friday between the militants and a combined force of Ethiopian federal soldiers and troops from the Somali region.

The official said there were casualties on both sides.

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Last week, the al-Qaeda-linked group said it had killed dozens of Ethiopian security forces during cross border raids.

Officials in Addis …

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