By TOSAN OYAKHILOME-AKAHOMEN WHEN the Nigerian Senate advanced the Anti-Terrorism Act amendment bill—one that now proposes the death penalty for kidnapping—senators projected confidence. They promised a public hearing that would confront one of the nation’s most elusive questions: Who actually funds terrorism in Nigeria? For many Nigerians, this […]
By TOSAN OYAKHILOME-AKAHOMEN THE House of Representatives has called on the Federal Government to publicly identify, sanction and prosecute all individuals and entities financing terrorism and banditry, insisting that transparency is essential to ending spiralling insecurity across Nigeria. The demand formed part of the House’s resolutions on national security reform following its three-day special plenary […]
By AMINA USMAN ABDULRAHMAN FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has shared insights from a private meeting he held with Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, following the cleric’s visits to bandit hideouts across Nigeria’s forests. Obasanjo said the discussion offered troubling revelations about the scale of insecurity and the level of fortification within the criminal camps. According […]
By SANI BATURE NORTHERN Nigeria is caught in a rapidly evolving security crisis driven by a loose but deadly coalition of bandits, foreign jihadists, armed herders, and criminal gangs. Stretching across Sokoto, Kwara, Kebbi, Katsina, Kano, Kaduna, Zamfara, Kogi, and Niger, these groups have carved out strongholds in forests, border corridors, and remote […]
By TOSI ORE Behind Tinubu’s ‘Aerial Siege’ — Fresh Abductions, Tactical Failures, and a Corridor of Impunity Widening Across Three States THE Tinubu administration entered the week determined to project strength. The rescue of 24 schoolgirls in Kebbi State and 38 church worshippers in Kwara State was framed as evidence that […]
By TINA TOLUTOPE MINISTER of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, says the Federal Government has not prosecuted suspected terrorism financiers because the investigations involved are complex, delicate, and cannot be rushed. Speaking on Channels Television, Idris dismissed claims that the government was sitting on a list of suspects, stressing that thorough evidence-gathering must […]
By TOSI ORE AN al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group operating in the Sahel, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), has reportedly claimed responsibility for its first attack on Nigerian soil, marking a troubling expansion of the group’s operations into West Africa’s most populous country. Security sources and jihadism analysts confirmed that the assault targeted a military position in […]