Macron Vows to Assist Nigeria After Wave of Student Kidnappings
French President Emmanuel Macron says France will increase support to Nigeria as the country battles a surge in jihadist and criminal violence. Macron said President Bola Tinubu asked for broader cooperation, and he pledged to work more closely with Nigerian…
ECOWAS troops deployed after failed coup in Benin
Fourteen Beninois military personnel have been arrested and stabilization force from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) deployed in Cotonou following failed coup attempt to oust the country’s president on Sunday. The coup attempt in Benin comes after…
Jihadists free final batch of abducted Borno girls
The last group of young women and girls abducted in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on November 22 were released late Saturday. Borno has long been the center of the jihadist conflict that began 16 years ago, and the latest kidnappings…
Insecurity: Archbishop Martins calls for activation of Tier-1 response
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Dr. Alfred Adewale Martins has called for coordinated national measures by the three tiers of government and all security forces in combating worsening insecurity in the country. Such a measure, according…
2027 polls: Why must Tinubu concede 41 Unity Colleges to bandits?
Sopuruchi Onwuka The government’s announcement shutting down 41 unity colleges in the country following regular, smooth invasion and abduction of innocent kids in boarding houses signals loss of hope in the fight against banditry and Islamist insurgency in the country….
DSS demands death sentence for Nnamdi Kanu
Following conviction of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on all charges brough against him, the prosecution lawyer is calling for death sentence for the embattled leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB). The government lawyers also call for continued detention of Nnamdi…
Abuja court convicts Nnamdi Kanu on terrorism charge
Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) has been convicted of terrorism based on the prevailing charges pressed against him by the government. Early reports from the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has it that the judgement is…
Muslim Brotherhood stole $500 million from Gaza donations
The Muslim Brotherhood allegedly stole half a billion dollars in donations for the Gaza Strip in a single campaign, Egyptian researcher Maher Farghali reported on Sunday. While Farghali noted that it is typical of the Muslim Brotherhood to “exploit Gaza…
Europe probes ‘war tourism’ killings during Sarajevo siege
The rich pay more to kill children, women European investigators have reopened inquiries into disturbing claims that wealthy foreigners paid tens of thousands of pounds in the 1990s to shoot at civilians trapped in the Bosnian War. Italian prosecutors are…
Trump brings home Israeli hostages from Hamas
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports With vocal demand for release of hostages abducted from Israel during bloody raid by Hamas on October 7, 2003, President Donald Trump of the United States has succeeded at a ceasefire that promises return of…
