Nigeria to deploy 200 special forces to Türkiye for training — Gen. Musa
The minister explained that, following the agreement, Türkiye had allocated a training quota of 200 personnel from Nigeria’s Special Forces, who will be deployed immediately upon their return to Nigeria.
N1bn Makinde impeachment plot: Speaker under siege, Olubadan palace targeted
By Adeola Badru Oyo State last week teetered on the brink of a full-blown political crisis, as a combustible mix of impeachment plots, alleged billion-naira inducements, royal intrigue and intra-party rivalry converged in a drama that has shaken the foundations of power in Ibadan, the state capital. At the centre of the storm: Governor Seyi Makinde, Speaker […]
More than Jilli horror: 500 feared killed in 19 ‘accidental’ airstrikes in nine years
When a Nigerian military jet struck a crowded camp for displaced persons in Rann, Borno State, in January 2017, officials called it a mistake.
Abducted JAMB candidates, others: Captors demand N9m for each captive, father cries
The father of two victims abducted Wednesday from a Benue Links bus en route Otukpo has cried out over ransom demands by their captors, who he said are insisting on N9 million for each of his kidnapped children.
Lagos doctors protest police harassment, warn of health crisis
Medical doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Lagos State chapter, and the Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners, ANPMP, on Saturday in Lagos staged a rare joint protest, decrying what they described as “persistent harassment, intimidation and unlawful arrests” by government agencies, particularly the police.
Crackdown: 28 convictions, 586 arrests as Tantita transforms enforcement against crude oil theft—Report
In a report before the joint committee on petroleum resources of the Senate and House of Reps, Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited documented a comprehensive legal crackdown…
