Minister of the Federal Captial Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has donated over 60 motorcycles to the Department of State Services (DSS) and Vigilance Group of Nigeria (VGN). Wike also gave 30 motorcycles to the police and five each to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The minister, at the handover yesterday, warned that the motorcycles must not be …

Seven-time champions Enugu Rangers are holding on to a slim goal difference league at the top of the 2023/24 Nigeria Premier Football League table after falling to a 4-3 defeat against Katsina United at the Muhammadu Dikko Stadium in Katsina on Sunday. The match-day 29 encounter opened up to a frenetic start with four goals in the opening 20 minutes. …

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has reassured Nigerians that the service personnel are determined to eradicate terrorists, bandits, and other threats. The Army Chief added that he was determined to bring peace to the country. Nigeria is battling security challenges ranging from terrorism, banditry, to kidnapping. In his Easter message on Sunday, the Army Chief …

Presidential candidates of the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party in last year’s election, Mr. Peter Obi and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, respectively, have expressed their excitement at the rescue of the abducted schoolchildren in Kaduna State. Both of them made their positions known in separate messages posted on their respective X handles on Sunday. About 287 schoolchildren and some …

The Nigerian Army has trained eleven officers in the operation of 15 newly converted compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles. Disclosing this on Thursday at Bonny Cantonment of the Nigerian Army, Victoria Island, Lagos, the Commander, Corps of Supply and Transport, Maj. Gen. A.A. Adeyinka said the conversion of the vehicles from petrol and diesel engines to CNG-powered engines would boost …

The Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft has appointed Commodore Rafiu Oladejo as its 23rd Commander. This was disclosed in a statement by the NNS BEECROFT Base Information Officer, Lieutenant Hussaini Ibrahim on Saturday. According to the statement, the handing and takeover ceremony of the command between Commodore Kolawole Oguntuga and Oladejo was held on Thursday at the NNS BEECROFT conference room, …

With incidents of kidnapping spreading across some states of the federation, the Lagos State House of Assembly has called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to increase the personnel in the Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps (LNSC) to effectively assist other security agencies. The House also commended President Bola Tinubu for his favourable disposition to the issue of state police, just as it …

The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) has reiterated its ban on the use of Point-of-Sale terminal machines, and other mobile money transaction devices within police stations and other police facilities across the country. The NPF said the ban followed public outcry on alleged “illegal and illicit transactions through ‘point-of-sale’ machine operators and connivance with certain police operatives”. This was contained in …

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, passed for second reading a bill to provide for the establishment of state police in the country. Sponsored by the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Benjamin Kalu and 14 others, the bill seeks to alter the relevant Sections of the 1999 Constitution to pave the way for states to establish their own policing outfits. As lawmakers …

The Yoruba nation activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo (popularly known as Sunday Igboho) has said to tackle the insecurity and poverty presently ravaging the country, patience and careful planning would be required. Igboho’s response came following a statement credited to the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar, regarding the rising insecurity and poverty in the country. Abubakar, in his capacity as …