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The military on Saturday imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of a northeastern city as it pressed on with a campaign against Boko Haram Islamists...

WARRI — NATIONAL President of  National Association of MilitaryPensioners, Mr. Benson Eromafuru, yesterday, gave the Federal Government, till May 6, to pay the pension arrears of its members, those of the police and their civilian counterparts. Eromafuru, in a statement in Warri, Delta State, insisted that the Federal Government had no more excuses to...

Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejirika, yesterday, in Lagos, said the security threats bedevilling the country were...

With an unusual grandstanding and harsh words, the Nigerian military today warned political office holders and civil servants that the nation’s...

The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe State said on Wednesday that it killed at least four suspected members of Boko Haram in a gun duel in the...

About five persons have been killed in Zangon Kataf local government area of Kaduna State, and several others injured by unknown gunmen who stormed the area about three hours ago. The incident, according to a military source happened in Aduwan along Zonkwa-Madakiya Road. The gunmen, the source said came in large numbers with sophisticated weapons to assault...

An attempt to rescue abducted seven expatriates working with SETRACO Construction Company in Jama’are local government area of Bauchi State might be under way. Five British jet bombers yesterday arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Media exclusively sighted the bombers which were parked at the international wing of the airport. The...

No fewer than 10 people, believed to be members of a family, were Thursday night killed by gunmen in Kogom Village of Vwang District, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. Half the victims were under the age of six, the military and an official said Friday. A survivor of the incident, Habila Musa, said that the attackers were dressed in military...

SaharaReporters has just received information from students living in Birnin Gwari town in Kaduna State to the effect that heavily armed bandits...

Former military head of state and National Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has come under flaks from the presidency over his  comments on the attack on the Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero. The presidency described his comment as “irresponsible, reckless and opportunistic.” It also cautioned against politicizing...