Nigeria faces an array of complex security issues. For the past 15 years, it has been the north-east of the country that has suffered from a devastating Islamist insurgency at the hands of jihadist ...

Lagos-based Nosmot Gbadamosi reports from across Africa on what’s driving policy, economics, and culture in the world’s ...

Military airstrikes carried out by the United States in December 2025 killed no fewer than 155 Lakurawa terrorists in parts ...

Bello Turji, the notorious bandit kingpin, who recently survived a U.S.-led military strike that targeted his network, in ...

Very little information has been shared about strikes in Sokoto state ...

US President Donald Trump said the action was aimed at stopping the spread of IS-linked jihadists, but key insurgent groups were left unscathed.

The  Air Component of Operation Fansan Yamma, Sector 2 of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has conducted two high-impact precision Air Interdiction, AI, missions at Turba Hill and Kachalla Dogo Sule’s ...

US strikes in Nigeria this week targeted Islamic State militants from the Sahel who were in the country to work with the Lakurawa jihadist group and "bandit" gangs, a spokesman for the Nigerian ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (Rtd), has explained that recent United States military airstrikes in ...

Residents confirm US airstrikes destroyed Lakurawa terrorist camps in Sokoto, with militants fleeing after multiple missile ...

Lakurawa fighters have reportedly attacked charcoal and firewood producers in the outskirts of Mai-Kurhuna village, Kebbe ...

Grief and fear gripped Darusa, a border community in Gudu Local Government Area, after suspected Lakurawa gunmen attacked the ...