By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent SECURITY DISCUSSIONS dominated the agenda in Abuja as a visiting United States (US) congressional delegation met with Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, to examine steps for strengthening nationwide protection. The US Congressman, Riley Moore described the meetings as focused on ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIA’s NATIONAL Economic Council (NEC) has approved N100 billion for the overhaul of police and security agencies’ training institutions across Nigeria, pending final ratification by President Bola Tinubu. The approval follows recommendations by an ad-hoc committee constituted to asses...
Bu Joyce Eyaba, JKNewsMedia Reporter DIVERSE EFFORS to withdraw police officers from supposed Very Important Persons (VIP) protection in Nigeria have spanned more than two decades, with successive inspector-generals of police (IGPs) issuing directives that were often partially enforced or reversed. Records show repeated attempts to return off...
She set out to collect the certificate that would seal her academic journey. Instead, Temitope Akinwale, then 25, now 33, found herself fighting for survival in a swampy forest, blindfolded, terrified, and praying through four days of captivity, as she recounts her traumatising ordeal to JKNewsMedia Reporter, HELEN OKECHUKWU. FAINT TRACES of ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PRESSURE ON Nigeria’s overstretched policing system prompted a decisive change on Sunday after Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu ordered the withdrawal of police officers assigned to supposed Very Important Personalities (VIPs) escort and guard operations across the country. The new directi...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIA’s DOMESTIC intelligence agency, the Department of State Services (DSS), has dismissed 115 personnel as part of a sweeping internal reform aimed at reinforcing discipline, integrity, and professionalism across its ranks. According to an official statement by the Service, the dismissals w...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent RELATIVES OF seven abducted travellers are clinging to hope after the victims, including 24-year-old Michael Bedford and his father, were kidnapped in Uli, Anambra State, while returning to Lagos from a burial in Abia State. The incident occurred on Sunday, 5 October 2025, when the group was se...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE VIOLENT death of Arise Television anchor and producer, Somtochukwu Christelle Maduagwu has drawn nationwide grief and a federal government’s directive for investigation after she was killed during an armed robbery at her residence in Katampe, Abuja. The Federal Government, through the Minister...
By Favour Olisah, JKNewsMedia Reporter TWO NIGERIANS who returned from Brazil have excreted 116 wraps of heroin and cocaine while in observatory custody after their arrest by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos. One of the suspects, 46-year-old Ofoma S...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent A MAJOR international drug trafficking syndicate has been dismantled following a two-week intelligence-led operation by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos, leading to the arrest of three cartel leaders and the seizure of a cocaine consignment valued at N5.3 ...
