Tag: Security

The Department of State Services (DSS) has recovered incriminating materials in the residence of Tukur Mamu. Mamu is the negotiator between the Nigerian government and terrorists who abducted Abuja-Kaduna train passengers on March 28. On Thursday, DSS Public Relations Officer, Peter Afunanya said security agencies executed the search warrant. He ...

As the world rises against terrorism financing and money laundering, the Director General of the Department of State Services, Alhaji Yusuf Bichi Magaji, has said that only a deliberate, conscious and active collaboration among security agencies can help Nigeria contain the rising wave of terrorism financing and money laundering in ...

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali, has activated the redeployment of some senior police officers. With the new posting, The Guardian gathered that CP. Abubakar Lawal is now the new Commissioner of Police Kano State Police Command, while the former commander of Special Tactical Squad (STS); CP. Kolo ...

kaspersky Scammers target travelers seeking cheap flights Menace of cybercrime in Africa sustained a huge rising profile in the first six months of the year with phishing and scams hitting 438 per cent and 174 per cent in Kenya and Nigeria respectively. Kaspersky, which revealed this, in its new analysis ...

Operators of commercial tricycles and motorcycles have kicked against Federal Government’s plan to impose a ban on the use of motorcycles as part of the plan to curb insecurity. They said executing such plan will prove counterproductive. The operators, under the aegis of the Almalgamated Commercial Tricycle and Motorcycle Owners, ...

Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba on Wednesday, July 13, banned all police SPY vehicle number plates across Nigeria. The Nigerian police said the order affects vehicle owners across the states of the federation without exceptions, Baba made it clear that this is irrespective of whether the number plate ...

ConceptualizingIf there will be a chart of the crises that bedevil the world as at today, humanitarian crises will be top of the chart. In the Middle East, the Syrian civil war has displaced millions and killed if not more. Thousands have been killed and millions displaced in our immediate ...

The inmates are said to have cases relating to terrorism and being members of the Boko Haram sect.

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has passed away in hospital after he was shot at in Nara. Initial reports claimed that shots were fired shortly before Abe fell ill and he was without vitals after arriving at hospital. Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot on Friday while ...

The Lagos State Government has developed a policy document on safe termination of pregnancy toward guiding healthcare professionals to provide safe and lawful abortion services in the state.  Dr Olusegun Ogboye, Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Health, said this at a stakeholders meeting to launch the document on Tuesday ...