The Minister of Defence, Abubakar Badaru, has asked for funding for an additional 50 Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) in the 2025 budget to combat banditry across the nation. The minister, represented by the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, at the budget defence session at the House of Representatives, also said the N50.44 billion total allocation to the Ministry …

The Interior Minister, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, said on Tuesday that the federal government is making frantic efforts to tackle the nation’s security challenges. Tunji-Ojo who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today, said the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu; the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru and the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, are losing sleep over the …