Author: Adeniyi Daniel

The Kebbi State Police Command has cautioned groups and non-governmental organisations planning to stage protests over the abduction of students at Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, warning that such action could heighten tension and undermine ongoing security operations. In a statement issued on Friday, the Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Nafi’u Kotarkoshi, said intelligence reports indicated that some groups were mobilising to begin protests at any moment. He stressed that the current security situation in the state is too fragile for any form of public demonstration. According to him, organising protests at this time carries “the potential of instigating…

The Lagos State Government has announced traffic diversion plans ahead of the Y2025 Capital City Race scheduled to hold in the early hours of Saturday, 22nd November, 2025. The 10-kilometre race, organised by the Lagos State Sports Commission (LSSC) in collaboration with the Capital City Race Organisers, will take place between 6:00am and 9:00am. According to the Ministry of Transportation, the race will kick off at the Ikeja Shopping Mall and proceed through Billings Way to Kudirat Abiola Way, before moving toward the Opebi Link Bridge, Adeniyi Jones, and Oba Akran Avenue (LASUTH axis). The event will end at Archbishop…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a Brazil-bound vessel, MV Nord Bosporus, at the Apapa seaport in Lagos with 20 kilograms of cocaine concealed under its cargo. Twenty Filipino crew members, including the ship’s Captain, have been arrested as the agency intensifies its clampdown on maritime drug smuggling The discovery was made on Sunday, 16th November 2025, during a coordinated operation by NDLEA personnel. Following the seizure, the ship’s Master, Captain Quino Eugene Corpus, and 19 other crew members, all Filipinos, were taken into custody for investigation. According to Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy, the action…

Nigeria has recorded another devastating school kidnapping, this time in Niger State, where gunmen abducted an unspecified number of pupils from St. Mary’s School in the Papiri area of Agwara Local Government. The attack, carried out between 2:00 a.m and 4:00 a.m on Friday, comes just days after 24 female students were taken by armed men from Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, in Kebbi State, where the vice principal was shot dead. Two of the abducted Kebbi schoolgirls have since reportedly escaped, but the larger national concern has deepened with this latest incident in Niger State. Confirming the attack,…

The Niger State Police Command has confirmed that armed bandits invaded St. Mary’s Private Catholic Secondary School in Papiri, Agwara Local Government Area, abducting an unspecified number of students from the school hostel in the early hours of Friday, November 21, 2025. In a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, the command disclosed that the attack occurred around 2 a.m., prompting an immediate deployment of police tactical teams, military personnel, and other security agencies to the area in a coordinated search-and-rescue operation. “The Niger State Police Command wishes to confirm that on 21st November, 2025…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the Minister of State for Defence, Alhaji Bello Matawalle, to immediately relocate to Kebbi State to coordinate security operations following the abduction of 24 schoolgirls in Maga, Sakaba Local Government Area. According to Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy, the minister is to remain in Kebbi until significant progress is made in securing the release of the students, who were kidnapped around 4 a.m. on Monday from the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga. Onanuga said the president took the decision to ensure a more hands-on, coordinated, and high-level…

Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court has sentenced Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to life imprisonment. Justice Omotosho delivered the judgment on Thursday, four years after Kanu was arrested in Kenya under contentious circumstances and brought back to Nigeria. He was subsequently charged with seven counts bordering on terrorism. The judgment was delivered in Kanu’s absence after the IPOB leader insisted that the judgment would not be delivered in the terrorism charge the Federal Government entered against him. Due to the drama that ensued, the presiding judge ordered security agents to bundle…

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has rescued an eight-month-old baby and four others from an accident involving four vehicles at Otedola Bridge, inward Tollgate, along the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway. The crash occurred in the early hours of Thursday and involved a Hydra truck (APP 261 FA), an LT commercial bus (EPE 574 YC), a Ford vehicle (GG 283 XQ) and an unregistered Mark flat-body truck. According to LASTMA, preliminary findings indicate that the victims — including a woman carrying the infant on her back — were attempting to cross the expressway when the speeding LT commercial bus ran into…

The Minister of Works, Engr. Dave Umahi, has donated a speed boat to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Lagos State Command, to strengthen surveillance and protection of the Third Mainland Bridge and other federal bridges across the state. The Lagos Command deployed the asset on Thursday after launching its newly established Marine and Infrastructure Protection Unit, created to combat illegal dredging, excavation, encroachment and other activities threatening critical national infrastructure. Speaking at the commissioning, SC Oluwaseun Abolurin, Civil Defence Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, said the gesture from the Minister of Works aligns with ongoing national…

President Bola Tinubu has described the death of Segun Awolowo Jr., grandson of the late Nigerian nationalist and statesman, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, as a loss to Nigeria.In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Thursday, Tinubu is “deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Olusegun Awolowo, the grandson of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo”.The President noted that the late Segun distinguished himself as a scion of the Awolowo family.“Segun exemplified the Awolowo pedigree in appearance, character and demeanour. Like his grandfather, he was a lawyer committed to…