By Ogaga Ariemu The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi-Ojaja II, has said traditional rulers are well grounded on challenges of insecurity, hence President Bola Ahmed Tinubu should employ their services to tackle it. He gave the charge during a courtesy visit by the National Council of ...

By Ochogwu Sunday President Bola Tinubu has charged security agencies in the country to share information in order to combat the negative effects of terrorism. He said that hoarding such resources would be counterproductive in the fight against the menace. The president stated this on Monday ...

Less than a week to the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight years tenure, one of his spokespersons, Mallam Garba Shehu, reviewed efforts of the administration and said although the dreaded Boko Haram insurgency had been degraded, it remained an occasional threat to the nation. Speaking in ...

Officials of the United States of America, USA, embassy, yesterday, visited the Naval Base, Onitsha, Anambra State and commended the Nigerian Navy for rescuing two embassy officials who were abducted after gunmen attacked their convoy in Ogbaru local government area. Regional security officer, ...

The two staff of the United States Consulate in Nigeria who were kidnapped during the attack on their convoy along Atani/Osamela road in Ogbaru Local Government Area in Anambra State on Tuesday have been rescued by security operatives. The Anambra State Police Command’s spokesman, DSP Tochukwu ...

Two persons were killed and six others abducted by gunmen in Yangoji town in the Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). One of those killed, Alhaji Yakubu Ayuba, was the community leader while the other a middle aged man was killed while returning home after watching the ...

Anambra State police command said it had raided a camp occupied by hoodlums operating in Ogbaru Local Government Area, and arrested two persons, in connection with Tuesday attack on US Embassy convoy in the area. The command has also released the names of those in the US government vehicles when  ...

United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, Wednesday, gave more details on the attack on US Mission convoy in Nigeria. Gunmen had on Tuesday attacked a convoy of US government vehicles in Anambra State, South East Nigeria, killing four people and kidnapping three others Providing more ...

Some members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, who just passed out from Orientation Camp in Ondo were abducted on Tuesday at about 9pm their way to Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State. An eyewitness whose sister-in-law was among the kidnapped corps called into a Port Harcourt ...

By Ifreke Inyang At least four staff members of the US Embassy in Nigeria on a humanitarian mission in Anambra State have been killed. DAILY POST reports that they were killed during an attack on their vehicle by gunmen on Tuesday. The incident happened in the Amiyi/Eke Ochuche communities in ...

By Amos Tauna About 40 people were on Sunday abducted by gunmen during a church service at Bege Baptist Church, Madala, along Buruku Baringi road, Kaduna, in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Kaduna State chapter, Rev. John Joseph Hayab ...

Contrary to viral reports that Alaba International Market had been razed by fire, the Lagos State Police Command has stated that the shanties around the market were set ablaze by police officers attached to Ojo Division. It was gathered that after raiding the vicinity, arresting suspects, and ...

The Nigerian Army presented two more Chibok schoolgirls who had been rescued from the captivity of the Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists in Sambisa forest. Additionally, the Army rescued two of the three humanitarian workers with the Family Health International (FHI360), who were abducted on April 26 in ...

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, in Sudan, has said all Nigerian students stranded in the war-racked North African country had been evacuated from the country’s capital, Khartoum to the Egyptian border. The Public Relations Officer of the association, Amal Pantami, who ...

Kwara state police command at the weekend  arrested Police Inspector over his alleged excessive drinking of alcohol while on duty post  in the state. Already, the command has ordered the suspected senior police officer to undergo a  medical examination in the police clinic to ascertain the state ...

By Ochogwu Sunday The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor on Thursday said Nigeria requires an all of society approach to curtail the various forms of insecurity facing it. Irabor said this on Thursday in Abuja, at a two-day workshop on “Use of Broadcasting in Complementing the ...

By Samson Atekojo Usman Benue State government has described endless attacks on its communities as financially burdensome, particularly in the recent times where over 18,000 residents ran to the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps. There have been increased attacks by suspected Fulani ...

By Wale Odunsi The Lagos State Police Command has reacted to the outrage over the sighting of a uniformed officer standing on the road with an assault rifle. A photo of the operative, with an assault rifle trended on social media with Twitter users asking if the disbanded Special anti-Robbery ...

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 ...