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The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested an Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) member over the blast near the Palace of Ohinoyi of Ebiraland in Okene, Kogi State. The Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) attack occurred on 29th Read More …
An explosion occurred Thursday in Kogi State minutes before President Muhammadu Buhari was to commission a project in the North-central state. Residents said the explosion, believed to be from a bomb, claimed the lives of at least four people in Read More …
A 14-year-old boy in Borno state has been reportedly killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) mistaken for scrap metal. According to Zagazola Makama, a publication focused on the Lake Chad region, the incident occurred in Banki town, Bama LGA Read More …
The Ebonyi State Police Command said it has recovered some Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) following the discovery of what it described as the biggest bomb factory in the South-East belonging to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The police Read More …
Four persons including one policeman have been killed in an attack that was repelled by the police in the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) along Port Harcourt Road in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The gunmen also Read More …
An airstrike by troops of the Air Task Force (ATF), Operation Hadin Kai, has neutralised another top commander of Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists’ group, Muhammed Malik. The intelligence-led aerial and ground coordinated operation launched by Read More …
Airstrikes conducted by fighter jets of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, have killed 24 terrorists of the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP. The operation, PRNigeria gathered, took place on Sunday, at Tumbun Hamma, one of the identified locations Read More …
A federal court in the United States has sentenced a Pennsylvania man, Mustafa Mousab Alowemer to 208 months (17 years and 3 months) for plotting with an international terrorist organisation, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) to bomb a Read More …
Residents in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, were on high alert and avoided some places on Monday, a day after the U.S. and U.K. issued terror alerts about possible attacks in the city. The Department of State Services, which is Nigeria’s Read More …
The Federal Government has disclosed that 755 civilians have been killed and 1,321 injured by the remnants of Explosive Ordnance (EO) in the Northeast in the last six years. The Federal Government also said the figure indicates that at least Read More …
wo people were killed in southeastern Niger on Sunday by a road bomb which exploded as they were passing with donkeys, local sources told AFP. “Two women were killed and a child was seriously wounded when an improvised explosive device Read More …
Scores of motorists and travellers were, yesterday, feared dead as they stepped on Improved Explosives Devices, IEDs, planted by terrorists, suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect, on the Maiduguri-Damboa-Chibok road. The terrorists, who also razed houses, were Read More …
Owerri—Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, yesterday, said a Major of the Nigeria Army has lost his life to illegally manufactured explosives by bandits, in Awo-Idemili in Orsu Local Government Area in the state, while two captains of the Nigeria Army Read More …
The Abia Police Command has arrested 10 members of a dare-devil armed robbery gang that allegedly robbed a bullion van on July 26 and carted away about N390 million. The Commissioner of Police, Janet Agbede, said the suspects belonged to Read More …
Operatives of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have arrested 10 suspects in connection with importation of 20 drums of carbide; a chemical substance used in manufacturing of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). Acting Controller Read More …
Two soldiers were killed while four others sustained injuries on Wednesday, after a gang of terrorists ambushed troops from the 32 Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Katsina. A lieutenant is also still missing after the ambush. Residents of Shimfida, where Read More …
The Nigerian Army has said that Troops of 82 Division Enugu, in collaboration with other services on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, killed two members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its militant wing, Eastern Security Network (ESN) Read More …
Major Orji died as a result of explosive device (IEDs) at Orsumoghu, Ihiala, in Anambra state. Source said, the team were on a mission in Ihiala, to detonate explosive devices (IEDs), that were planted in the village by unknown gunmen. Read More …
A notorious bandit camp where Improvised Explosive Devices are manufactured have been raided by troops of the Nigerian military. Found during the raid on the hideout located in the Rafin Dawa area of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State Read More …
Nigerian police said on Tuesday that two oil pipelines that feed the Brass Terminal Port which is operated by Italian energy company Eni, were recently blown up by explosives. Brass Terminal Port is one of the major onshore crude grades, Read More …