The East African country has arrested 22 people suspected of being behind the most devastating wildfires in the country’s history that killed 69 people, injured over 1000 and displaced 600. Forest fires have hit mountainous areas in northern Algeria since Monday, mainly in Tizi Ouzou of the Kabylie region east of the country’s capital, Algiers. Algeria’s President, […]Read More
At least 600 families have lost their homes to wildfires near Algeria’s capital, according to a representative of the Algerian Red Crescent. Mountain forests and villages of Tizi-Ouzou, capital of Kabyle, has been in the grip of ravaging wildfires since Monday. The outbreak has claimed not less than 69 lives — 41 civilians and 28 […]Read More
An analysis of the Federal Government budgets between 2017 and 2021 has shown that an estimate of N475.8 billion have been spent on surveillance to curtail the high level of insecurity threatening the country. The report showed that this amount m was budgeted for the nation’s two surveillance agencies – the National Intelligence Agency and […]Read More
Unknown gunmen have reportedly invaded Nasarawa State’s Ministry of Finance, Budget and Planning in Lafia, carting away with N100 million. According to reports, the robbers trailed some members of staff who went to a commercial bank to withdraw some cash for the ministry. The armed men were said to have snatched the N100 million on […]Read More
Kenyan Police have confirmed that 13 people were killed and many others seriously burned when an overturned petrol tanker exploded in western Kenya as crowds thronged to collect the spilling fuel. The fuel truck collided with another vehicle and toppled over late on Saturday near Malanga, some 315km (195 miles) northwest of Nairobi, on the […]Read More
According to a quantitative survey conducted by the Akin Fadeyi Foundation, about 42.4 percent of citizens believe that all Nigerians are corrupt. This report also published that 51 percent believe that all public officials are corrupt. The quantitative survey is part of a three-year project end-line report published by the foundation with support from MacArthur […]Read More
Insecurity: Over 1,000 Killed In Nigeria In April Following a compilation of data by the Council on Foreign Relations in the Nigeria Security Tracker, at least 1,032 people lost their lives to insecurity in the country last month. The tracker showed that across Nigeria there were at least 229 violent incidents between April 1 and […]Read More
The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has added 100 spacious, high-capacity buses to the newly launched First and Last Mile (FLM) Origin X-30 Bus Scheme. The scheme aims at easing public transportation within the metropolis while providing the needed transportation alternative much needed by the residents of the state. The scheme would also permanently […]Read More
The Federal Bureau of Investigation ranked Nigeria 16th place in it’s 2020 International Victim Countries’ report. Nigeria, according to the ranking, is also the second highest in Africa after South Africa in its 2020 International Victim Countries. The FBI disclosed this in its 2020 Internet Crime Report released. The top 20 countries ranked in the […]Read More
No fewer than one thousand and ninety-seven (1,097) people in Nigeria were victims of abduction in the last one month, according to analysis from the Nigeria Security Tracker (NST) has shown. This was recorded between February 15 and March 12 2021, according to the data-collection platform run by the Council on Foreign Relations. The data […]Read More
