Nigerian Security Agents Arrest Ansaru Members And Boko Haram Weapon Manufacturer

Three men with suspected link to the terror sect, Boko Haram, are now being interrogated by the Department of State Services (DSS) for allegedly manufacturing arms for the insurgents and for seeking a foreign embassy’s help to fight terrorist activities in Nigeria. Also in the custody of the agency are three other men suspected to be members of Ansaru, another terror sect.

Security Researcher Reveals How To Hack A Surveillance Drone From A Distance With $40 Kit

A security researcher has reported finding a way to hijack a high-end drone, using parts costing as little as $40 (£29).

How Boko Haram Funds Terrorism, Insurgency With Proceeds of Rustled Cattle

Indications have emmerged that Boko Haram insurgents have devised a novel mode of using “unscrupulous middlemen” to sell stolen cattle at the Gamboru cattle market in Maiduguri with proceeds used to fund the sects ongoing bloodletting terrorism and insurgency campaign. 

Ex Niger Delta Militants Invade Lagos…Responsible For Robbery, Kidnapping Spree

Punch Newspaper investigations has revealed there are strong indications that jobless Ijaw/Ilaje ex-militants as well as militiamen may have invaded Lagos, and are responsible for the various recent acts of kidnappings, robberies and other criminal activities in Lagos state.

Hausa-Yoruba Clash in Lagos Claims 10 Lives, 100 Injured, Several Houses And Cars Vandalised

Bloody clashes in the Mile 12, Ketu area of Lagos State, South West Nigeria, on Thursday left no fewer than 10 persons dead and about 100 others injured. Among the dead were two schoolchildren, traders, artisans and residents.

Update: Lagos Schoolgirls’ Kidnappers Demand N60 Million Ransom

TVC reports that kidnappers of three abducted female students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School in Ikorodu, Lagos state on Wednesday demanded the sum of 20 million naira each to secure their release.

Boko Haram: Urgency For Real-time Security Mapping, Early Warning Systems & Adequate Security For IDPs

Terrorists habitually bask on element of surprise, unpredictability, impressing mass casualty and the ensuing publicity. Albeit repeated claims by President Buhari and his handlers that Boko Haram has been ‘technically defeated’, home truth portend that the dreaded Sect has proved to be resilient and will remain a threat to national security in the foreseeable future.

Gunmen Kidnap Former Central Bank of Nigeria Director, DSS Officer

A former Director of Foreign Operations at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Joseph Ogedegbe has reportedly been kidnapped by some unidentified gunmen.

Nigerian Air force Launches Harmonised Military Camouflage

The Logistics Command of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF Ikeja Lagos, yesterday, launched the Harmonised Military  Woodland camouflage, recently adopted by  the management of Defence, with a charge to its  personnel to guard  against the uniform getting into wrong hands.

Drug Trafficking: 158 Nigerians on Death Row in China, Malaysia

A total 158 Nigerians are waiting to be executed over drugs related offences in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, the Senate said on Tuesday.

Gunmen Kidnap 3 Female Students From A Private High School In Lagos

No fewer than three students of Babington Macaulay ‎Junior Seminary School, a private school in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, have been abducted by some gunmen.

Conflating Terrorism And Insurgency

Editor's Note: What if most terrorism isn’t really terrorism? In past decades, much of what we call terrorism today would have been seen as insurgent violence, revolutionary war, or civil war: a group like the Islamic State, which uses tanks as well as suicide bombing, is a prime example of an organization that is wrongly classified as a terrorist group. John Mueller of Ohio State University and Mark Stewart of the University of Newcastle in Australia unpack this definitional confusion and argue that it leads to a gross misunderstanding of the true threat we face.

7000 People Displaced Sequel To Latest Fulani Herdsmen Attack on Benue Community

MAKURDI—INDICATION emerged weekend that no fewer than 7,000 persons were displaced in the wake of the crisis between Fulani herdsmen and Agatu farmers of Benue State.

Amnesty International 'Extremely Worried', Investigating Allegation of Extra-judicial Killing of Biafran Activists in Aba

Amnesty Internation­al (AI), the global hu­man rights body, has stated that supporters of the Indigenous Peoples of Bi­afra (IPOB) have a right to free­dom of expression and freedom of assembly.

The organization also noted that it was still investigating dis­turbing reports of the massacre of unarmed members of IPOB and their alleged burial in a mass grave in Aba, Abia State, by Nigerian se­curity operatives.

Militants Threaten To Blow-up More Crude Oil Installations in Nigeria

WARRI—NIGER Delta Avengers, the militant group which claimed responsibility for blowing up the Forcados Terminal Pipeline in Delta State, recently, has served notice of attacks on more oil installations in the region until the Federal Government addresses its grievances.