The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps’ monitoring team for the National Grid Installation located in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State have come under a heavy attack by the deadly Boko Haram terrorist group. The incident occurred at about 15.40 hours when the convoy of the special monitoring squad comprising 9 Officers and 71 other ranks drawn from ...

Terrorists suspected to be members of Boko Haram have invaded the garrison town of Bassa in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. Local sources around the village told PREMIUM TIMES that they have been hearing sporadic gunshots from the axis since 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday. In one of the attacks on the town earlier this year, terrorists killed some ...

Four suspected female suicide bombers believed to be members of Boko Haram killed an unspecified number of people including a soldier when they detonated their explosives at different locations in Borno State. A source familiar with the insurgents’ operations in the northeastern state told PREMIUM TIMES that the first bombing was recorded at a wedding ceremony in Mararaban Gwoza. “The second one ...

Ezinne Ezepue, University of Nigeria Nigerian thriller The Black Book has been in the headlines for reportedly topping global figures at streaming service Netflix, with 5.6 million viewers in its first two days. Does it live up to the hype? In my view, as a critic, scholar and teacher of Nigerian film and storytelling, the short answer is yes. Directed ...

Atiku Media Office has alerted the Nigerian public to alleged plot to attack the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. In a statement on Monday, the Media Office said that at 9:44 pm on Sunday, 23 July, 2023, a man seeking to confirm the residence of Atiku Abubakar in Yola was ...

Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Abuja in July 2022. Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images Jana Krause, University of Oslo and Imrana Buba, University of Oslo Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be sworn in as president of the country on 29 May 2023. That’s if the courts uphold his election victory. Tinubu won the highly contested 25 February presidential election with ...

Residents fleeing a village in Plateau State, north central Nigeria, after an attack by armed bandits. Photo by AFP via Getty Images Folahanmi Aina, King’s College London The Nigerian state has come under severe security stress in recent times. It has faced multiple national security threats: jihadist groups in the north-east; armed bandits in the north-west; militia secessionists in the ...

Christians hold signs as they march on the streets of Abuja in March 2020. Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images Oluwole Ojewale, Institute for Security Studies In early June 2022, 40 people died, including children, in a mass shooting and bomb attack on a Catholic church in the city of Owo, southwestern Nigeria. The incident remains one of the ...

By Casmir Igbokwe In Ola Rotimi’s play, ‘The gods are not to blame’, King Odewale is destined from birth to kill his father and marry his mother. To avert this tragedy, his parents, King Adetusa of Kutuje and his wife, Queen Ojuola, give Odewale (soon after his birth) to their special messenger named Gbonka, to dispose of in an evil ...

More than 30 armed officials were on ground during the Tuesday attack on the Kuje Custodial Centre in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, PREMIUM TIMES learnt from officials briefed on the matter. The security agents included officials of Nigeria’s correctional centre, police officers, immigration officers, civil defence officials and mobile police officers. Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, the Kuje facility came ...