By Tunji Okunlola Nigerian military forces have rescued two men from kidnappers in Kwara State, the army announced Saturday, as security operations against armed criminal groups intensify across the North Central region. Troops of the Joint Task Force North Central, operating under Operation Savannah Shield, freed the victims during a clearance mission along the Gidan…
By Tunji Okunlola The abductors of retired Major General Rabe Abubakar, a former Director of Defence Information, have released a video showing him and his wife in captivity and setting out their conditions for the couple’s release. Major General Abubakar and his wife were seized along the Marabar Musawa-Kafinsoli road in Matazu Local Government Area…
By: Tunji Okunlola Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation Afenifere has called on South-West governors to urgently rearm and reinforce the Amotekun Corps, warning that the regional security outfit is critically outgunned by the bandits it is tasked with confronting. The group dismissed claims that poor intelligence gathering lay behind recent security failures, arguing that the problem was…
By: Tunji Okunlola President Bola Tinubu has approved the recruitment of 1,000 forest guards for Oyo State and ordered the deployment of a specialised rescue team following the abduction of pupils and teachers from three schools in Oriire Local Government Area. The measures were announced during a visit by a high-powered Federal Government delegation to…
By: Olayinka Ganiyu The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has ordered all primary and secondary school teachers in Oyo State to begin an indefinite strike, citing the government’s failure to secure the release of educators and pupils abducted from schools in the Oriire Local Government Area. The strike, which took effect Monday, will remain in…
By: Tunji Okunlola Mounting concern over Nigeria’s deteriorating security situation intensified this week after coordinated attacks on schools in Oyo and Borno states left dozens of children abducted, prompting condemnation from political leaders, traditional rulers, rights organisations and retired security officials. The apex Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has urged South-West governors to take urgent action…
By: Tunji Okunlola The Oyo State Government has ordered the immediate closure of all public primary schools in four local government areas following the abduction of several students and the killing of a teacher in Oriire Local Government Area. The affected local government areas are Surulere, Oyo East, Oriire, and Olorunsogo. The directive was issued…
By: Ganiyu Olayinka Suspected gunmen have invaded Ahoro-Esinele community in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, abducting a school principal and an unspecified number of students, according to reports gathered by ClarityNewsNG. The attack reportedly occurred between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. on Friday at Community High School, Ahoro-Esinele. Sources within the community disclosed…
By: Olayinka Ganiyu Armed attackers swept through the Ngbra Zongo community in Bassa Local Government Area, Plateau State, in the dead of night Friday, slaughtering at least 13 people and wounding several others in a savage house-to-house assault. Eyewitness Philip Alanga says the gunmen struck at midnight, opening fire before closing in with machetes. “They…
By: Ganiyu Olayinka Terrorists have killed three mobile police officers in a midnight assault on a security base in Tenibo community, Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State, in what is now the second deadly attack on security personnel in the area within a fortnight. The attack occurred in the early hours of Saturday, around…
