The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has destroyed a terrorist concentration of more than 40 fighters during precision air operations in Borno State, the service said on Sunday. In a statement, Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, Director of Public Relations and Information for the NAF, said the air strikes were executed by the Air Component of Operation HADIN KAI on January 15 and 16, following verified intelligence and close coordination with troops in contact. Ejodame said aircraft responded to a distress call in the Azir area in the early hours of January 16, where soldiers were engaging withdrawing insurgents. Surveillance subsequently revealed…
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has instituted legal action against state governors and the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, for allegedly refusing to disclose how billions of naira released as security votes have been utilised since May 29, 2023. SERAP said it approached the Federal High Court in Abuja following persistent breakdown of security across the states and the FCT despite massive allocations to security-related expenditure. The organisation cited recent killings in Benue State and escalating violence nationwide as justification for public scrutiny. This was contained in a statement issued on Sunday by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare.…
A notorious drug trafficker, Lekan Jimoh, alias Kanmo-Kanmo, has finally been arrested 12 years after he allegedly masterminded the killing of three operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Jimoh was picked up on Friday, January 16, 2026, during a tactical raid in Owode, Ogun State, after years of evading capture. The NDLEA said 69 kilogrammes of skunk were recovered from the hideout during the sting operation. In a statement on Sunday, the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said Jimoh had been on the run since June 15, 2014, when he allegedly mobilised armed hoodlums who hacked three NDLEA officers…
The Kano State Police Command has arrested three suspected members of a gang linked to the brutal killing of a woman and her six children at Dorayi Chiranchi Quarters in Kano. The breakthrough followed days of coordinated, intelligence-driven operations carried out between Friday night and the early hours of Sunday, January 18, 2026. A statement issued on Sunday by the state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Abdullahi Kiyawa, said the operation was carried out on the orders of the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and supervised by the state Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Adamu Bakori. Kiyawa disclosed that one of…
The Oyo State Police Command said on Saturday that it has arrested a 27-year-old man, Usman Azeez, for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl who went to fetch water at a river in Iseyin Local Government Area. The Spokesperson, Olayinka Ayanlade said the report was received at the Ado-Awaye Police Division on January 15, 2026, and that officers promptly responded and ensured the victim received medical attention. Ayanlade added that medical examination indicated injuries consistent with penetration. “The suspect was arrested and has reportedly confessed,” the police statement said. In a separate operation, officers from the Ojongbodu Police Division, while on…
Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have taken into custody a 28-year-old man, identified as Friday Akonobi, in connection with the abduction and suspected ritual killing of a six-year-old girl, police said on Sunday. Spokesman for the command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, told journalists that Akonobi was arrested in the early hours of January 17, 2026, by officers attached to the Rapid Response Squad at Awkuzu after information was received linking him to the crime. According to the police, preliminary inquiries indicate the victim, Ozioma Nwankwo, was abducted from Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on May 10, 2025.…
Fresh details have emerged on the sudden reversal by four members of the Rivers State House of Assembly who previously backed efforts to remove Governor Siminalayi Fubara from office. The lawmakers, who had withdrawn from the impeachment push, were said to have returned to the negotiating table in pursuit of political guarantees ahead of the 2027 elections, Vanguard reported. A source familiar with the talks, who spoke anonymously, disclosed that the legislators were less concerned with allegations of misconduct and more interested in securing return tickets to the Assembly. “With the way they’ve related with the governor, they’re not sure…
Preparations are underway for a grand family celebration as nine children of the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, are scheduled to marry on the same day in Abuja. An invitation card for the ceremony, which has been trending on social media, confirms that the weddings will take place at the National Mosque, Abuja, at 1:30pm on February 6. The children listed for the joint ceremony are Ibrahim, Suraj, Safiya, Maryam, Aisha, Fahad, Muh’d, Nana Firdausi and Farida. Speaking with Sunday PUNCH, the spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State, Yusuf Idris, said the minister’s children include…
A police officer was on Saturday killed when armed men raided a manufacturing firm and abducted a Chinese national in Ogunmakin, on the outskirts of Ibadan, Oyo State. The attackers, believed to be kidnappers, stormed Aqua Triton Company along the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway in what police described as a coordinated assault. Spokesperson for the Oyo State Police Command, ASP Olayinka Ayanlade, who confirmed the incident, said the officer died from injuries sustained while confronting the gunmen. “There was an attack at Aqua Triton Company in Ogunmakin, near Ibadan, where yet-to-be-identified gunmen stormed the facility in a commando-style operation,” he said. Ayanlade…
A major disaster was narrowly avoided in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Saturday after a petrol tanker went up in flames while attempting to discharge fuel at a filling station. The incident occurred at Olumo Filling Station, Oko-Olowo Junction, at about 2:31pm, shortly after the 45,000-litre tanker arrived from Lagos, the Kwara State Fire Service said. Spokesman of the agency, Hassan Adekunle, who confirmed the development in a statement, said flames erupted from the vehicle moments after it entered the station, prompting a distress call to fire officials. Adekunle said firefighters battled the blaze with what he described as “high professionalism”, preventing…