By Ifunanya Obeme-Ndukwe Days after the 2023 general elections, insecurity in Rivers State appears to be on the rise. Within one week, several persons have been reported missing in the State. DAILY POST reports that the worst hit locations are Igwuruta, Eneka, Nkpor in Rumuolumeni and Mile ...

By Abdulrazaq Adebayo One person was reported killed when suspected rival cultists group invaded Omoda area of Ilorin metropolis, Kwara State capital on Sunday. Three others injured in the attack according to DAILY POST source, who confided in our correspondent in Ilorin on Sunday. The suspected ...

Some unidentified gunmen, on Friday morning, ambushed policemen at Okpala junction in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State. DAILY POST gathered from a reliable source who craved anonymity that a couple, Mr and Mrs Chinaka Nwagu, who were from the Amankwo Okpala community, were also ...

As Muslims celebrate Eid-el-Fitr across the world, the Ogun State Police Command said it is not unaware of the activities of cultists planning to unleash terror on the people of the State. But, the police assured Ogun residents that it has put in place a “robust security arrangement” to ensure a ...

The Benue State Government has reacted to the clarifications made by the presidency on President Buhari’s effort in the security situation in the State. A comment on the security situation in the state blames the poor intervention by president Buhari on Governor Ortom’s stiff opposition to ...

The abductors of eight persons from Owukpa community, Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State, have demanded N500,000 ransom for each victim. DAILY POST had earlier reported that the assailants ambushed the villagers along the Atamka-Ugbugbu road while they were returning from the Aho-Ogbo ...

This day, April 14, makes it nine years since the abduction of school girls from Chibok, a hitherto unknown rural town in Borno State, but now a global name. As the world marks the 9th year anniversary of the Chibok girls’ abduction, 96 of the 276 abducted girls remain unaccounted for. The ...

Bandits operating in Zamfara and Katsina States who abducted 85 women and children in Wanzamai community of Tsafe local government area in Zamfara State have finally agreed to collect N20,000 from each of the victims amounting to N1.7 million. The bandits also demanded that military operatives ...

The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi on Sunday condemned the killing of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Benue State and the abduction of some residents in Wanzamai village in Zamfara State. Obi urged the government to take extraordinary measures to address the menace. ...

Daredevil gunmen wrecking havoc across the country have resumed their onslaught against citizens after a break occasioned by the cash crunch. DAILY POST reports that the recent cash scarcity that was birthed by the redesigning of old naira notes by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, halted ...

An unspecified number of persons living at the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP camp situated at the LGEA Primary School Mgban, in Nyiev Council Ward of Guma Local Government Area of Benue State have been killed by suspected herdsmen. DAILY POST gathered that the incident occurred on Friday ...

A former deputy governor of Nasarawa State, Prof. Onje Gye-Wado, was on Thursday night kidnapped in his Rinza Village near Wamba, the headquarters of Wamba Local Government Area. The incident, according to a family source, occurred some few minutes to 12 midnight. The source said the kidnappers ...

Bandits have abducted over 80 children in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. According to BBC Hausa, the children, between the ages of 12 and 17, were kidnapped on Friday morning. Parents of the victims said they were in the bush in the early hours when the assailants rounded them ...

Several persons have been killed in a deadly attack launched on the Umogidi community of Entekpa Adoka district in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State by suspected killer herdsmen. DAILY POST learnt that the ugly incident which occurred on Wednesday led to the death of 46 persons, ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has warned Nigerian security agents against the killings of Igbos sympathetic to the Biafra cause. IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said the killings of “Biafrans” would not go unavenged. Powerful issued the warning while reacting to the massacre of ...

The 36 state governors in the country are expected to meet with economic and financial agencies in the country tomorrow, over the management of their states’ security votes. The agencies expected at the meeting include the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt ...

The Lagos State Police Command has reacted to the call by one Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate, Fredrick Nwajagu inviting the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to the state. The Eze invited IPOB members to secure the properties of the Igbo people in the state. Following his call, Nwajagu was arrested ...

The Federal Government on Wednesday sought the cooperation of Ireland on internal security in Nigeria. Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola made the request when the Irish Ambassador, Peter Ryan, visited him in Abuja. At the meeting, the minister hinted the plan of the ministry to establish the ...

By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja The chief bombmaker and a high ranking member of the Boko Haram Terrorist Group, Awana Gaidam, has been killed by his own Improvised Explosive Device, IED. The 39 year-old bomb maker, apart from his high status in the command structure of the Boko Haram terrorists, ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has urged Igbos residing in Lagos State to protect their lives and businesses threatened by thugs led by the former Lagos State National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, chairman Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo. IPOB’s spokesman, Emma ...

Nigerians have been advised by Police to activate locks on their Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards. Public Relations Officer in Lagos, Benjamin Hundeyin gave the advice in a Twitter post after the arrest of a syndicate. The spokesperson revealed that members of the syndicate pick ...

Bandits on Tuesday evening shot dead a soldier while three others sustained gunshot injuries during exchange of gunfire in Akoti village near Kagarko town in Kaduna State. A resident of the community, Musa Arungo, who confirmed the incident to DAILY POST, said a civilian was also injured during ...

The Department of State Services, DSS, has apprehended an inmate described as “a slim young man” after a major operation at the Kirikiri prison in Apapa, Lagos. DAILY POST exclusively reported how a large number of officers stormed the penitentiary last week in search of the fellow threatening ...

No fewer than 23 villagers were killed and several others injured on Saturday as terrorists invaded villages in Kankara communities, Katsina State. Those killed include 21 males and two females, a reliable source told DAILY POST. The hoodlums had earlier on Friday attended the wedding party ...

Kidnappers have abducted a pastor and his wife and two members of his family and 10 other persons during a raid on Grow Home Estate in the Chikakore community of Kubwa, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The victims were abducted during the one-hour raid on the estate on Friday ...

No fewer than 443 more Boko Haram terrorists and family members who escaped the week-long sustained massive attacks by the Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP) fighters in Borno State have surrendered to the military. This is as the death toll arising from the clash between Boko Haram fighters ...

The Yobe State Government has lifted the ban on the use of motorcycles in seven local government areas following an improvement in security. This was disclosed in a statement released on Monday by Special Adviser on Security Affairs to Governor Mai Mala Buni, Brigadier General Dahiru Abdulsalam ...

Gummen have threatened Paris Saint-Germain superstar, Lionel Messi and opened fire at his family-owned supermarket in his hometown of Rosario in Argentina. Although the Argentina international was not present during the attack, the gunmen left a message which read: “Messi, we’re waiting for you,” ...

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa hosted rapper, Folarin Falana known as Falz and comedian Debo Adebayo, professionally called Mr Macaroni and some critical stakeholders on Wednesday. The commissioner, in a statement by the Public Relations Officer, PRO, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, ...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Monday urged the people of the state to remain calm, eschew violence and go about their businesses without any fear of harassment. Sanwo-Olu, in a statement via his Twitter handle, said that there had been reports of friction in some parts of the ...

Unknown gunmen on Tuesday burnt an elderly woman to death at Amagu Ihube community in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State. The woman was burnt when the gunmen razed down several homes, including that of Emeka Okoronkwo, the Imo State commissioner for youths and sports. Also burnt is the ...

The United States Embassy in Nigeria has forewarned its citizens in Nigeria on possible protests in the aftermath of Nigeria’s elections scheduled on February 25 and March 11. The Embassy also said that as it was usually practised during past elections, restricted movements should be expected to ...

Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria, KACRAN, has rejected the idea by some presidential candidates to recruit one million security operatives as a way of addressing the prevailing security challenges in the country. The position of the Association was made known in a statement ...

Barely one week after gunmen killed three police officers attached to the Governor of Delta State and vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa in Anambra State, some hoodlums have attacked a police station in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of ...

Gunmen, on Tuesday, kidnapped 15 members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in Anambra State. The corps members were abducted by the hoodlums at a filling station in Ihiala Local Government Area of the State. It was gathered that the corps members had just completed their three-week ...

Unknown gunmen operating in the South-East struck again on Friday, killing three policemen from the department of Explosive Ordinance Device, (EoD), Delta State Police Command, Asaba. The victims, who were attached to the State Government House, were murdered in Ihiala Local Government Area of ...

The former Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd) said President Muhammadu Buhari has fulfilled his promise to subdue Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, terrorists. Buratai, who made the assertion in an interview with newsmen in Abuja, recalled that ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Sunday alleged that its intelligence unit, M-Branch, has uncovered a plot to assassinate PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the South East. Emma Powerful, IPOB spokesman alleged that Atiku’s assassination would be blamed on the followers of ...

Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has charged officers and men of Sector 2 Joint Task Force, North-East, Operation Hadin Kai, in the state to intensify surveillance in some local government areas bordering Borno State. Buni gave the charge during the Nigerian Army Social Activities, NASA, on ...

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has raised the alarm alleging that there are plots by some Fulani elite to eliminate him. The governor, who made the remark 2hil addressing newsmen in Makurdi on Thursday, insisted that he will not be intimidated by anyone to back down from his fight against ...

Gunmen have beheaded the Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, Christopher Ohizu. His abductors carried out the act after allegedly receiving a N6millon ransom. The gunmen, who called themselves separatists, reportedly tied his hands backward with a rope ...

Yet-to-be-identified gunmen have killed two persons believed to be members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ebonyi State. The incident reportedly occurred in Mkpuma Akataka Community in the Izzi Local Government Area of the State. DAILY POST was reliably informed that the APC meeting was ...

The Edo State Government has confirmed the arrest of two village chiefs over the January 7 attack at the Igueben train station. Chris Nehikhare, Commissioner for Communication and Orientation gave the hint after the State Executive Council meeting in Benin on Wednesday. Seven other suspects ...

By  Stephen Angbulu Despite spending over $1bn to reclaim Boko Haram-held territories in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States since 2015, Nigeria’s security and that of the Lake Chad Basin remains unstable due to lingering conflicts in Libya, the Central African Republic and Russia’s aggression in ...

Irate youths of Kaffin-Koro, Paikoro local government area have allegedly burnt down the Police station in protest to the gruesome murder of a Catholic Priest, Rev Father Isaac Achi of St. Peters and Paul Catholic Church by armed bandits, along Daza road, in the area. It was gathered the youths ...

By  Solomon Odeniyi The military has reportedly killed two wanted Boko Haram Commanders, Abu Ubaida and Mallam Yusuf Abba. They were neutralised together with about 40 of their foot soldiers at an abandoned warehouse in Kurebe, a popular community in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that its office in Enugu South Local Government Area has been attacked by gunmen a few weeks to the general election. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, stated ...

Unknown gunmen suspected to be Eastern Security Network, ESN, militants have attacked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office in Imo State, killing one in the process. DAILY POST gathered that the gunmen, who were about 20 in number, operated with two SUVs, one blue-coloured ...

Suspected terrorists on motorcycles in early hours of Sunday, attacked New Life for All Church in Kankara local government area of Katsina state and abducted no fewer than 25 worshippers. Senior Special Assistant on Christian Affairs to Governor Aminu Bello Masari, Rev. Ishaya Jurau, disclosed ...

Niger State Governor, Alhaji Sani Bello Abubakar has directed security agencies to go after the killers of a Catholic priest of SS Peter and Paul, Rev. Fr. Isaac Achi, at his residence in Kaffin Koro, Paikoro Local Government Area. Bello, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, CPS, ...