The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya says that the Nigeria Army would deploy 6,251 newly-recruited soldiers to counter activities of criminal elements.
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One of the leading aspirants for the seat of the Speakership of the House of Representatives, Rep. Aliyu Betara, says the G-7 will determine who emerges the next Speaker of the House.
The Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPTF) has trained 100 police officers on public order policing, crowd and force management protection in Adamawa.
The Nigerian government has trained 2,167 repentant insurgents and graduated from the Operation Safe Corridor’s (OPSC) Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) programme, organised by the Federal Government, an official has said.
The Nigerian Navy has said that a total of 20 capital ships were procured for the Nigerian Navy (NN) during the eight-year administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Katsina state governor, Aminu Masari has revealed why he and other Northern Governors supported the presidential ambition of the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu.
The Assistant Inspector General (AIG), of Police in charge of Zone 5, Arungwa Nwazue, has taken a strong stand against land grabbing in the zone.
Three aggrieved All Progressives Congress (APC) Senators have petitioned the party’s secretariat over the adoption of consensus candidates for the Senate Presidency of the 10th National Assembly.
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the retiring Assistant Inspector General of Police, Garba Umar, as a Senior Security Adviser on International Police Cooperation and Counter-terrorism in the office of the Minister of Police Affairs.
ASHENEWS reports that Niger state governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has called for more mobile squads to be posted to sensitive areas of the state in a bid to limit the movement of bandits from neighbouring states into Niger State.