Kano State police have started tough new actions against local thugs called Daba. The police chief Ibrahim Adamu Bakori wants his officers to fight crime groups hard. He met with police commanders from around the state on Friday to plan these operations. The meeting brought together area leaders and tactical officers to discuss security plans. DSP Abdullahi Hussaini spoke for the police chief about the new orders.
Bakori told his officers that thugs will not be allowed to cause trouble anymore. He wants commanders to stop criminal activity before it grows. The police chief promised people can sleep safely at night. He said citizens will have peace and security all the time. Officers must work harder to catch criminals before they hurt...
Activist Aisha Yesufu says senators should discuss removing President Bola Tinubu from office. She became famous through the Bring Back Our Girls movement and spoke about recent killings across Benue State. Armed herders attacked Yelewata community Friday night around 10 PM and killed several people. Police confirmed the attack happened early Saturday morning when bandits invaded the area. Officers fought back against the attackers during intense gun battles.
President Tinubu has not visited Benue State or spoken about the deaths there. He has not offered sympathy to families who lost relatives during these attacks. Yesufu grew angry because Tinubu quickly responded to a plane crash that killed over 200 people overseas. She wrote that...
Israeli forces found the body of Aviv Atzili last week during operations across southern Gaza. The 49-year-old reservist worked as part of Kibbutz Nir Oz civil defense team before his death. Hamas fighters killed Atzili on October 7, 2023 when they attacked Israeli communities near the Gaza border. Palestinian Islamic Jihad members took his body into Gaza after the deadly assault. Military teams recovered Atzili from Khan Younis during a larger mission that also brought back another victim.
The recovery effort also located Yair Yaakov who died during the same October 7 attacks at Nir Oz. Both men lost their lives when militant groups launched coordinated strikes against border settlements. Israeli officials confirmed both bodies came...
Parents rushed to Government Special Science Senior Secondary School on Uni Agric Road in Makurdi to take their children home. They fear for student safety after armed herders killed over 200 people in nearby Yelellewata community. The attack happened just twenty minutes away from the school grounds. Families demanded school officials release their kids because of poor security measures. Many parents gathered at the school gates asking for immediate student pickup.
School leaders had already asked the Education Ministry for better protection before classes started this term. Officials sent another request after kidnappers took students from Joseph Tarka University Makurdi nearby. One parent said herders attacked the local community...
Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides said Iran asked his country to send messages to Israel. He agreed to help during the growing fight between the two nations. People across Cyprus could see missile attacks between Iran and Israel during the night. Christodoulides plans to call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday. The leaders were supposed to meet Saturday night but canceled because of the attacks.
The Cyprus president will also talk to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. President Donald Trump said America wants to start peace talks between Israel and Iran. He warned Iran not to attack the United States or American citizens. Trump said such attacks would...
President Donald Trump complained Sunday that people never credit him for his peace efforts around the world. Trump wrote on Truth Social that he helped solve conflicts between several countries during his time as president. He said India and Pakistan made a deal because he used trade talks to bring them together. Trump also claimed he stopped fighting between Serbia and Kosovo before it turned into war. He said he prevented conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia over a dam on the Nile River.
Trump said he wants Israel and Iran to make peace soon and that many meetings are happening about this issue. He wrote that he does lots of work but never receives recognition for it. The post came one day after Trump made threats against Iran during...
The Indigenous People of Biafra claims Nigerian authorities used a dead man's statement as evidence against their leader Nnamdi Kanu. Group spokesman Emma Powerful said prosecutors presented newspaper quotes from Emeyiri Uzoma Benjamin during court proceedings on June 13. The man known as Onye Army supposedly confessed to killing 30 people for a burial ceremony. Powerful stated Onye Army died inside government custody and never testified in court. He cannot face cross-examination about these claims.
The prosecution witness read newspaper reports about alleged confessions but admitted never interviewing the source directly. IPOB argues this violates Nigerian law because the evidence comes from hearsay and unverified statements. The...
Police have called in a top official from Kano Road Maintenance Agency for questioning about defamation claims. Aminu Rabilu Tela must appear before officers on Monday morning at 10 AM. The summons came through a letter dated June 10 from Assistant Commissioner Mohammed A. Wakil. Officers want to interview Tela at Command Headquarters on Bank Road in Kano. The letter told KARMA's managing director to release Tela for the meeting.
Police said they are looking into a defamation case that someone reported to them. The letter mentioned two laws that give police power to call people for questioning. Officers did not name who made the complaint or what the defamation involved. They said the case follows proper legal steps. An officer called...
A community in Ebonyi State faces growing anger over what they call the murder of a young woman. People in Umuka village say the main suspect walks free because his relative works for the Department of State Services. They sent a formal complaint to the police chief asking for action.
The trouble started during a funeral on April 28, 2025. A woman tried to take a sleeping child from the burial ceremony. Community leaders stopped her and decided she should go to the police station. A young man named Chichebem Okorie Ogudu offered to take her there.
The woman never made it to the police station alive. Her body appeared at a nearby motor park the next morning. Chichebem never came back to tell village leaders what happened. Police later...
