Southern Borno Senator, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has condemned renewed Boko Haram onslaught on Ngoshe community and Mussa in in Gwoza and Askira/Uba Local Government Areas respectively which left several people dead over the weekend. In Ngoshe, five farmers were slaughtered while tilling their farmlands on Saturday morning. The same night in Mussa, gunmen invaded the community, killing three youths and setting houses and shops ablaze setting pandemonium in both communities.

President Bola Tinubu has approved a lifetime salary for senior officers retiring from the Ministry of Interior, which was made known by the Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, while speaking at the 2025 Ministerial Retreat on Thursday.

The Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Army (NA) have eliminated more than 50 bandits and also rescued kidnapped victims in Kumbashi village, Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State.

Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has expressed concerns that the country’s justice system has continued to favors only the wealthy, to the detriment of the common man. The Islamic supreme leader was speaking yesterday Sunday in Enugu during the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. He noted that corruption and inequality are weakening the Nigeria’s courts, adding, “Justice is increasingly becoming a purchasable commodity, and the poor is always the victims of the system, while the rich commit all manner of crime and walk the streets scot-free.”

Troops deployed to the Joint Task Force of Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) have neutralized nine Boko Haram terrorists including two top commanders.

Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Christopher Musa, has disclosed that the recent increase in terrorist related killings across the length and breadth of the country is politically motivated, meaning is connected to the build-up of the 2027 general election. In recent months, Nigeria is witnessing a surge in Boko hAram activities in the North-East, unprecedented banditry attacks in the North-West, while states like Benue and Plateau have remained hotspots for violence herders killing the locals.