Bandits reportedly invaded the LEA primary school, Kuriga town in the troubled Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Thursday morning and kidnapped several student and staff including the head teacher of the school. Details of the incident are still sketchy at the time of filing this report but a source, who is a resident of the area, claimed that no fewer than 100 students and staff were kidnapped.

Corpses of missing police officers deployed from Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Abuja, Police Mobile Force (PMF) Oghara and the Anti-Kidnapping Squad, Asaba in Delta state have been recovered by a combined team of security agents and local vigilantes in Agadama forest in Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state. The operational huts of the suspected killers were destroyed and 6 corpses were also recovered.

A Federal high court in Kano has ordered that the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) lacks power to invite or investigate the former State Governor and All Progressives Congress National Chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, over a dollar bribery allegations.

Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu has pleaded for a united front between the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) against the proliferation of arms and light weapons in Africa. Tinubu, concerned about the growing threat of insurgency, terrorism, and military incursions into governments in Africa, especially in the sub-Saharan Africa region. 

The Nigerian Navy revealed that one of its ship, Beecroft, intercepted a Ghana-registered vessel, Motor Tanker Sweet Miri which was headed to Benin Republic with about 2 million litres of stolen crude oil. This was made known in a statement by the Base Information Officer of Beecroft, Lieutenant Hussaini Ibrahim, who also disclosed the arrest of the intercepted vessel’s 13 crew members, 12 Nigerians and 1 Ghanaian.

The Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, has arrested members of a syndicate among who are a couple, a former soldier and a printer, for allegedly producing fake currencies.The suspects Mr Oludare Olamilekan, 50; his wife Oluwayemisi, 46; Ilelabayo Johnson, 62, who identified himself as a retired Colonel and Adeniyi Quadri, 35, who were paraded by the Assistant Inspector- General of Police, AIG Olatoye Durosinmi, were discovered to have been distributing the fake currencies to Bureau De Change operators both in Nigeria and Cameroun and through POS services in Nigeria. AIG Durosinmi disclosed that the arrests were made following intelligence report about the hideout of one of the suspects, Quadri, who allegedly printed and supplied the fake currencies to other members of the syndicate.