Major Stephen Datong Major Stephen Datong who was abducted by gunmen from the Nigerian Defence Academy Afaka, Kaduna State has been found dead. A source told SaharaReporters that Datong was killed by the bandits only two hours after. ...

Kano Hisbah corps The Kano State Hisbah Board, also known as Islamic police has summoned a Kannywood actress, Ummah Shehu, over some allegations she levelled against the Islamic police on social media. The commandant of the board, Haruna Sani...

A 12-year-old boy was found in Kano by one Ibrahim Danladi Satatima eating his own faeces after allegedly being confined in a room and starved by his mother, identified as Maryam Dauda. Dauda has been arrested by the police in Kano, who lear...

A woman, Jidike Kate Patrick has cried out after her brother, Israel Chimin Mimi who was travelling from Abuja to Bauchi state went missing. Kate Patrick told SaharaReporters on Monday that Mimi embarked on the journey on August 15 but ...

Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has described Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari as the most incompetent commander-in-chief of any armed forces in the world.Sowore noted this on Tuesday against a backdrop of an attack by bandits on t...

Personnel monitoring closed-circuit television (CCTV) at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) were reportedly asleep when bandits attacked the premises on Tuesday, killing two officers. The gunmen invaded the Afaka barracks of the academy arou...

Babagana Zulum, Borno governor, has said he has been attacked by Boko Haram insurgents “more than 40 to 50 times”. Speaking on Tuesday while briefing state house correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Preside...

The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has said the management of Lagos State University has a case to answer as it alleged that the school persecuted Nurudeen Alowonle Yusuf, aka Omomeewa to death. This was made known in a statement issued by ...

Hissene Habre, the former strongman president of Chad and security ally of the West during the Cold War who was later jailed for war crimes, died on Tuesday in Senegal at the age of 79, Senegal's justice minister said. According to Reuters, ...

Foremost pro-northern group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has condemned Tuesday’s bandit attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) and the handling of security by the Muhammadu Buhari-led government. Gunmen had invaded the Afaka barra...