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A newly released book has offered fresh insight into the power struggles that defined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2023 presidential primaries, revealing how a powerful cabal around late former President Muhammadu Buhari allegedly sought to install then Senate President Ahmad Lawan as the party’s consensus candidate by attempting to manipulate the country’s security architecture. The …

The Kwara State Government has clarified that the armed men recently apprehended by soldiers in the state, initially believed to be bandits, are members of Miyetti Allah participating in a federal security operation coordinated through the Office of the National Security Adviser. The clarification comes in the wake of public concern following reports by SaharaReporters that Nigerian soldiers intercepted a …

The prime suspect in the murder of the Delta State retired chief judge, Justice Ifeoma Okogwu, has confessed to gagging the deceased to take her phones and other belongings. The suspect, Godwin Mngumi, was paraded by the Delta Police Command on Tuesday, where he disclosed how he engaged two others to dispossess the deceased of items including a wristwatch, jewellery …

I read with an interchange of intense pleasure and intense pain, the insightful lecture which the much-decorated Lt Gen (Rtd) Abdulrahman B. Dambazau delivered on November 4, 2025. That 7th Annual Public Lecture of the “Just Friends Club of Nigeria” (JFCN), with the theme, “Nigeria’s Security Challenges and the Quest for National Cohesion: A New Paradigm for Internal Security Architecture”, …

Former President Muhammadu Buhari governed Nigeria from 2015 to 2023, a period that global human rights body, the Amnesty International says was marked by several grave human rights violations involving state security forces and other armed actors. In a compilation released by the rights group on Monday, Amnesty International cited multiple incidents across the country, alleging unlawful killings, suppression of …

The United States government has revealed that Nigeria was added to its expanded travel restrictions list over concerns bordering on terrorism-related security risks and high visa overstay rates. According to U.S. authorities, the presence and activities of extremist groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State in parts of Nigeria have created challenges for effective screening and vetting of …

Eleven Nigerian Air Force personnel detained in Burkina Faso following an emergency landing could face life imprisonment if found guilty of espionage or sovereignty violations, according to sources close to the ongoing investigation. The warning comes amid a deepening diplomatic crisis, with the soldiers and their C-130 Hercules aircraft still held a week after the incident. The saga began on …

The controversial plan to decorate Nurudeen Yusuf, aide-de-camp (ADC) to President Bola Tinubu, as a one-star general on Monday evening was shelved at the last minute after an intervention by two former chiefs of army staff, TheCable understands. Yusuf, who was only decorated as a colonel last January, was to be promoted to the rank of brigadier-general through “special presidential …

The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, has attributed the recent drop in power supply across the South-East to low system frequency caused by gas constraints affecting power generation companies. EEDC said the situation has forced the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, to implement load shedding of available energy. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Group …

THE RESUMPTION OF ENFORCEMENT OF THE POLICE UNLAWFUL TINTED GLASS PERMIT POLICY IS A GRAVE AFFRONT TO THE MAJESTY OF THE COURT AND A SUBVERSION OF THE RULE OF LAW A press release dated 15th December 2025, issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, announcing the reactivation of the enforcement of the suspended tinted glass permit policy …