Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, and his Sokoto State counterpart, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, Tuesday called for cooperation among the seven states in the North-west in tackling banditry and kidnapping.

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday reached out to the United States and other important and strategic partners for help in combating the worsening security challenges facing Nigeria. Buhari, during

Members of Nigeria’s organised private sector (OPS) have urged the federal government to rise to the occasion and arrest the worsening insecurity in the country in order to salvage the

A former President of Nigeria’s Senate, Bukola Saraki says the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari has been overwhelmed by the worsening insecurity, one which the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal

Two Spanish citizens have been killed in an ambush in eastern Burkina Faso, the Spanish government said. The Spanish journalists and an Irish citizen went missing during an attack by

Protesters in N’Djamena, the Chadian capital have burnt tyres and French flags, with smoke filling the sky in the country’s capital. Their rallying cry is the dissolution of the transitional military council. They

A former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar says the federal government must stop treating acts of criminality with kid gloves as darkness awaits the country if nothing is done to put an

Civilians in Somali are fleeing several areas of the capital, Mogadishu, fearing renewed clashes between forces supporting President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and those backing the opposition. Both sides have occupied different parts

Yet to be identified gunmen have attacked the Ebonyi State division of the Federal High Court, and reportedly used petrol bombs to set the federal institution ablaze. The building, located in Abakaliki, the southeastern Ebonyi state capital

Nigeria’s minister of communications and digital economy Isa Ali Pantami says he is in possession of credible intelligence which shows that there are plans by “forces of evil” to release doctored videos that will portray Pantami in

The Nigerian Airforce says it is investigating reports of an alleged airstrike on soldiers of the Nigerian Army. Reports had emerged that about 20 soldiers were killed after a fighter

Two of the abducted students from Greenfield University in Nigeria’s northwest Kaduna State have been killed by their abductors. Authorities in Kaduna said the corpses of the two students have

Chad’s military junta has named former prime minister Albert Pahimi Padacke, who was runner-up in the Sahel country’s April 11 presidential election, as interim premier. Mr Padacke was the last prime minister

A Nigerian Senator who chairs the Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume has asked the federal government to reveal the identities of the 400 Bureau De Change operators who were recently arrested for

Gunmen have abducted an undisclosed number of students from the Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi, the capital of northcentral Benue State. The institution confirmed the incident on Monday noting that nothing has