The Senate yesterday raised serious concern over killing of innocent citizens as a result of murder, kidnapping, violence and abduction with no meaningful strategy being deployed to checkmate the menace. In a motion sponsored by Andrew Uchendu, representing Rivers East, he said the killings, which had been on for more than 10 years now, assumed…

The 19 Northern Governors have attributed the increasing level of armed banditry, kidnapping and other criminal activities in the north to the inability to codify criminal justice system in the region...

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) interim middleweight champion, Israel Mobolaji Adesanya, migrated with his parents from Nigeria to New Zealand when he was 11 years old. That was in the early 2000s, when issues of insecurity in Nigeria were at minimal. The combat fighter, who is shaping the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), could not…

In assessing the chances of President Donald Trump for the 2020 American Presidential election, the American telecom giant, Yahoo! Media Incorporated rated Trump as winning the 2020 poll with a landslide victory because the United States economy has been booming for two years running. In its analysis, Yahoo! foreclosed a recession by November 2020 because…

The Methodist Church of Nigeria wants government to give attention to issues of terrorism and insecurity across the nation. The Bishop of Methodist Church of Nigeria, Diocese of D/Line, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Rt. Rev. Dr. Etim U. Ekong, said this during the Diocese’s 9th Synod. ANN GODWIN reports. How did the Diocese get to where it…

You most probably read the story in the Daily Trust of three days ago – May 7. But given its import and its centrality to this column, let me re-tell it to refresh your memory. In a front lead story, Katsina emir to minister: Tell (the) president we need security, the newspaper reported that the…

A recent report on ranking of nations using the Misery Index on the state of living standards appears quite worrisome, particularly to the ordinary Nigerian. According to the latest Misery Index Report released by one Steve Hanke, an economist from the John Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States of America, Nigeria was ranked as the sixth…

One of the enduring tropes of human comeback and survival is associated with Fyodor Dostoevsky who gained reprieve from execution at the last minute. Yet, the glistering success of the Russian writer in his post-near-death epoch would not have effectively obviated the ordeal of the pall of an imminent death that hung over him before…

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed security chiefs to put an immediate end to banditry, kidnapping and other criminal acts ravaging parts of the north. He specifically mandated the military, police and other security agencies to rout the bandits terrorising Zamfara, Katsina and Kaduna states. The president spoke through Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina, who…

Mr Shiban Tikari, the Caretaker Chairman of Takum Local Government Area of Taraba, on Saturday imposed restriction on the use of motorcycles in the council area from 7 pm to 6am,, to check kidnapping and armed robbery in the area. Tikari, who disclosed this at a media briefing in Jalingo, said kidnapping for ransom and…

Two groups, Save Kogi Movement (SKM), and Idah Club 6575, have called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to retrieve arms illegally possessed by youths in the state. In separate appeals yesterday in Lokoja, they claimed that the just concluded general elections provided a fertile ground for unscrupulous politicians to recruit and…

Perturbed by the rising wave of insecurity in the country, the Muslim Congress (TMC) has urged the three levels of government to focus on insecurity in their various economic blueprints for the new political dispensation. Amir of TMC, Luqman AbdurRaheem, in a statement made available to The Guardian, said the group feels that, “The country…