The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, has urged retired military personnel to embrace skills acquisition as a pathway to improved living standards, financial stability, and post-service resilience. He appealed on Wednesday during the opening ceremony of a three-day skills acquisition programme in Yola. Oluyede explained that the initiative is designed to equip ex-service members with practical, income-generating skills, particularly within the agricultural value chain. The programme, he said,…

Nigeria’s Special Adviser to the President on Media and Policy, Sunday Dare, has emphasised that the country cannot defeat terrorism in isolation, calling for strengthened international cooperation—particularly with the United States—amid heightened security concerns. Dare’s remarks follow the abduction of 25 schoolgirls from the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, an incident that has once again drawn global attention to Nigeria’s prolonged battle against insurgency and armed…

Kebbi

Vice President Kashim Shettima has assured the families of abducted schoolgirls in Kebbi State that President Bola Tinubu is “deeply troubled” by the incident and is committed to ensuring their safe return. He was in Birnin Kebbi on the President’s directive to sympathise with the state government and the affected families following the abduction of schoolgirls from a boarding school in Maga, as well as the killing of Brigadier-General Musa…

Niger

ADC

The Chairman of Danko/Wasagu LGA in Kebbi State, Hussaini Aliyu, has published the names of the 25 female students taken by bandits during Monday morning’s assault on Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga. During the invasion, the attackers killed the school’s vice-principal, Hassan Yakubu Makuku, and left a security guard injured. The abducted students were listed according to their class groups. Kebbi State police commissioner, Bello Sani, said additional tactical…

Security forces have taken control of the Eruku community in the Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State following a violent bandit attack on worshippers at the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) Oke-Isegun on Tuesday, which left three people dead and several others abducted. The development comes after a disturbing video of the attack went viral, showing bandits storming the church, firing shots repeatedly as worshippers, both elderly and young, fled…

Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar, has dismissed that the country is experiencing a genocide targeted at Christians, insisting that widely circulated casualty figures are inflated and misleading. Appearing on Piers Morgan’s show on Tuesday, Tuggar challenged statistics released by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), which alleged that more than 50,000 Christians had been killed and thousands of churches destroyed since 2009. Tuggar pushed…

APC

Yunusa Umar Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has postponed his scheduled trip to Johannesburg, South Africa and Luanda, Angola, for the 20th summit of the G20 Leaders and the AU-EU summit, respectively. The president’s aide, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this on Wednesday, stating that Tinubu” awaits further security briefings on the kidnapped Kebbi schoolgirls and the attack on Christ Apostolic Church worshippers in Eruku, Kwara State.” Tinubu was scheduled to depart for…

NBA