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Chad shuts border with Nigeria over security fears, possible terrorist infiltration

The Government of Chad has announced the immediate closure of its border with Nigeria, citing heightened security concerns following reports of alleged U.S. military plans in response to Christian killings and genocide in parts of West Africa.

Military sources in N’Djamena, headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), confirmed on Monday that President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno ordered a total military lockdown along the Nigerian border after intelligence indicated that terrorist elements in northern Nigeria were preparing to flee into Chad.

According to sources, the Chadian army has been placed on full alert, with troops and armoured vehicles deployed across key border corridors linking the two countries.

Mubanga
Nov 3, 2025

EFCC arraigns fake contractor for N111m fraud in Kaduna

EFCC arraigns fake contractor for N111m fraud in Kaduna
The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Bashir Bello Ibrahim, a former Kaduna State government contractor and Chief Executive Officer of Formal Act Legacy Limited, before Justice A. M. Aikawa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna, for fraud.

The Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, in a statement on Saturday, November 1, 2025, disclosed that Ibrahim was arraigned on seven counts of obtaining money under false pretences, advance fee fraud, and money laundering.

Mubanga
Nov 1, 2025

Suspected bandits abduct Kebbi Deputy Speaker

Suspected bandits have abducted the Deputy Speaker of the Kebbi State House of Assembly, Alhaji Muhammad Sama’ila-Bagudo.

The Kebbi State Police Command confirmed the incident in a statement issued on Saturday in Birnin Kebbi by its Public Relations Officer, CSP Nafi’u Abubakar, who disclosed that the lawmaker was kidnapped in Bagudo Local Government Area of the state.

Mubanga
Nov 1, 2025

Police arrest masquerade leader, accomplice over armed extortion, public disturbance

Police arrest masquerade leader, accomplice over armed extortion, public disturbance
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested two suspects, including the leader of a masquerade cultural group, for alleged involvement in illegal assembly, armed blockade of a public highway, and extortion.

Their arrest followed a distress call from a concerned citizen (name withheld) who reported that members of a masquerade group were attacking commuters, blocking a major road, and extorting money from passersby.

Mubanga
Nov 1, 2025

Alleged $1.043m fraud: Supreme Court strikes out Ajudua’s motion

Nkereuwem Effiong The Supreme Court on Thursday, October 30, 2025, struck out a motion filed...

Mubanga
Oct 31, 2025

NCC distributes white canes to visually-impaired persons

The Director General of the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), Dr John Asein, has distributed white canes to visually impaired individuals in Akwa Ibom State.

Asein made the distribution during the commemoration of the World White Cane Safety Day in Uyo on Wednesday, urging them to tap into their creative potential.

Mubanga
Oct 30, 2025

Adamawa court sentences bank MD to five years’ jail term

Justice Benjamin Lawan Manji of the Adamawa State High Court has sentenced the Managing Director of Bonghe Microfinance Bank, Grace Andreas Karka, to five years in prison.

Karka was arraigned by the Gombe Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and cheating involving N32 million.