Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has warned that anyone found providing information to insurgents will face the full weight of the law, as the state government handed over 40 motorcycles to support security operations in the Hong Local Government Area. The governor issued the warning through the Adamawa State Commissioner for Education and Human…
Tope Temokun, lawyer representing human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has urged the management of X (formerly Twitter) to disregard a request by Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) seeking the deletion of his client’s posts criticising President Bola Tinubu. In a letter dated September 7, 2025, addressed to the Legal and…
Security operatives have apprehended the village head of Guiwa in Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State, along with 13 others, for allegedly aiding and abetting armed bandits. This was made known on Sunday in a post on X by Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert focused on the Lake Chad region. Makama disclosed that intelligence…
The United States sanctioned five people and seven companies in China and Iran on Tuesday, accusing them of aiding Tehran’s ballistic missile and drone programmes. The sanctions targeted individuals and companies in China, Hong Kong and Iran involved in procuring key components for “subordinates” of Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, the US…
