Gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday attacked the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru, near Jos, Plateau State.

The attack was confirmed in a statement by the NIPSS Head of Public Affairs Department, Dr Osime Samuel, it was reported.

“Security personnel and relevant security agencies brought the situation under control promptly,” he said, adding that “there is no threat to the safety of the participants, staff, residents or facilities of the Institute and normal activities are continuing as scheduled.”

Reacting to speculations of the death of some security agents during the attack, Samuel said such reports remain unconfirmed and further updates will be made public as soon as verified information is available.

The National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, wishes to inform the general public that there was a security incident in the vicinity of the Institute in the early hours of today.

“The situation was swiftly brought under control by the quick response of the security personnel and relevant security agencies. There is no current threat to the safety of participants, staff, residents or facilities of the Institute and regular activities are proceeding on schedule.

Security agencies have launched investigations to know how the incident happened. It would be premature to speculate on the nature, scope or outcome of the event as investigations are ongoing. Therefore, the Institute is unable to confirm information currently circulating on social media and other unofficial platforms.

“NIPSS is in close contact with the relevant authorities and will share verified information as soon as it is available. We urge the public and media to rely on official communications from the Institute and relevant security agencies.

“The Management of NIPSS remains committed to the safety and security of all members of the Institute community and appreciates the professionalism of the security personnel and agencies involved in the response.

“Further updates will be provided in due course,” the official statement said.

Some reports, however, said a police officer attached to a retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police and two soldiers were killed in the exchange of gunfire during the incident.

NIPSS is Nigeria’s premier policy institution charged with the training of senior public officials, military officers and policy strategists from all parts of the country.

Security has been increased around the institute and investigations and manhunt operations are underway at the time of filing this report.

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A father of 11 children and husband of two wives, Isa Isiaka, on Monday was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by Justice Binta Fatimah Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, for deliberately refusing to lodge information on the activities of Boko Haram to the Federal Government.

Isiaka was on Monday remanded in prison after pleading guilty to terrorism charges filed against him by the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF and Minister of Justice.

To save the court’s time, the accused pleaded guilty to the charge immediately after it was read.

AGF and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, who appeared for the Federal Government, said the convict concealed information that would have led to immediate arrest of members of the proscribed Boko Haram sect.

But the convict begged the judge to be merciful to him saying he was a first offender and father to 11 children and husband to two wives.

However, Justice Binta Nyako in his judgment dismissed his plea as untenable and sentenced him to 20 years imprisonment without option of fine.

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The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare has reiterated the commitment of the government to ending terrorism in Nigeria.

The presidential spokesman was quoted to have commended the country’s security forces for their efforts in the fight against terrorists, kidnappers, bandits and other criminals operating in the country.

“But whether it takes long or not, the terrorists must either surrender or be neutralised,” he added.

He said President Tinubu would not succumb to the demands of the terrorists.

“These victories, arrests and pressure against terrorists and kidnappers by our soldiers must be commended and recorded as part of the security achievement of the Tinubu administration. We will not give up, President Tinubu has since vowed. “The terrorists must surrender or be decimated,” he wrote on his 𝕏 Account in response to a statement by the Nigerian Army that troops have achieved a significant operational success with the arrest of a suspected high-profile arms trafficker connected to an interstate illegal weapons network.

Recall that President Tinubu has said he was shocked by the death of retired Major-General Rabe Abubakar in the custody of terrorists in Katsina State.

In a statement by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President said that General Abubakar, after a distinguished career in the military, retired few years ago. He added that he was on his way to his home town when the hoodlums got him.

“Despite the terrorists’ best efforts, the President wants them to know that the government will never succumb to their demand for the release of their members held by our security agencies,” the statement said.

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Suspected cultists have reportedly attacked Oreta community in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State, killing a 22-year-old resident, Abdulmalik Bakare, and two others.

Tunde Bakare, father of the deceased, said the incident occurred on Wednesday and that six suspects have been arrested.

The Divisional Police Officer in charge of the case has, however, assured the family that he would carry out a thorough investigation, Bakare told journalists Sunday.

“The DPO has promised that the case will be thoroughly investigated,” he said.

When our correspondent visited the community on Sunday, there was a fearful and uncertain atmosphere in the whole area and residents were still trying to recover from the violence.

The findings showed that the attack might have been connected to a previous confrontation between a trailer driver and a gang of suspected hoodlums on Gbogbo Road.

A resident who gave his name only as Fasasi said armed men on motorcycles stormed the community around 8 p.m. and began shooting indiscriminately.

Earlier in the day, some youths reportedly stopped a trailer carrying a container and demanded money from the driver, leading to an escalation in tensions, he said.

He said the driver claimed some people at a junction near where he was parked collected N350,000 as payment from his employers.

“It was in the afternoon. A driver of a trailer carrying a container was stopped at Gbogbo by some boys who wanted to collect money from him. The driver said they had already paid. The Chinese owners said they paid N350,000 to their bosses at the junction.

“But they said no. As they were dragging it at the junction, one of the area boys who climbed the trailer was caught under the tyre and died. “The police said they settled it and it was an accident, Fasasi said.

He said some of the youths regrouped after the incident and later launched a reprisal attack on the community.

They rounded up their gang members in the night and raided the community on bikes. They reached Oreta and began shooting.

They killed him when he was about to close his shop. They also shot dead a physically challenged child who was eating. They started smashing shops and glass doors. “A man who came to buy fish was also shot dead,” he said.

At the time of this report, the identities of the other victims had not been confirmed.

The attack sent panic through the community, forcing many people to flee and commercial activities to be abruptly disrupted, residents said.

Efforts to get an official comment from the Lagos State Police Command were unsuccessful.

At the time of filing this report, calls and text messages to the command’s spokesperson, SP Abimbola Adebisi, were not responded to.

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has concluded the list of candidates for the 2027 general elections and refused to review its just concluded primaries, notwithstanding the petitions and protests by aggrieved aspirants.

Punch’s findings revealed that the ruling party had completed work on the results sent to its national secretariat and was prepared to upload the names of successful candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) portal.

The development effectively slammed the door to further appeals and calls for fresh primaries by members who had alleged manipulation and imposition during the exercise.

The APC, according to a principal official of the party and another member of the National Working Committee (NWC), said it had not altered nor was it considering reviewing the results of the primaries.

“We are not analyzing the results of the primaries in reverse,” the chief official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. The time for primaries and appeals is long gone. Waiting for the code to upload the results of the primaries winners.

All was settled. We do not know what review they are talking about.”

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed June 26 for the release of access codes to its nomination portal and July 11 as the deadline for the submission of candidates’ particulars for the 2027 general elections.

Tickets for lawmakers
At least 54 serving federal lawmakers, including ranking senators and members of the House of Representatives, failed to get return tickets during the APC primaries held from May 16 to 18.

Many aggrieved aspirants, particularly those who were left out in Lagos, Delta, Zamfara, Kogi, Rivers, Plateau and Osun states, have petitioned, threatened to take legal action and called for fresh primaries.

The APC chieftain was asked about reports submitted by the party’s primary election appeal panels and the APC chieftain said the appeals did not significantly change the outcome of the primaries.

From what I’ve seen, the appeal reports didn’t change any of the primary results significantly because a lot of the petitions were found to be frivolous,” he said.

But any well made appeal would have been looked at. Some of the appeals are about zoning matters that are pre-primary issues.

“Some are talking about clearance, that somebody did not resign properly from the PDP before joining the APC. Is that a basis for challenging our primaries? “Those are petty issues that people brought up in their petitions.”

INEC Code awaits party
After the primaries, the party official said that most constituencies did not have appeals.

He added, “There are 109 senatorial districts and 360 House of Representatives constituencies, with thousands of House of Assembly seats. I can tell you in most of these constituencies there is no appeal.

‘And where does the main review report come from? The results to be announced might not differ from what is already known.”

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Four National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members and two others died in a tragic road accident involving a military gun truck and a commercial bus in Adamawa State.

The Adamawa State Police Command said that the deadly accident occurred on Wednesday at the Narehi area of Girei Local Government Area on the Girei-Song Road.

In a statement, Suleiman Nguroje, the command’s spokesman, said the “accident involved a military gun truck on the way from Gombi to Yola and a commercial Hummer bus carrying five passengers from Yola to Mubi.”

“Preliminary investigations revealed that the two vehicles were involved in a head-on collision, after which the commercial bus somersaulted and burst into flames,” Nguroje said.

“Preliminary findings show both vehicles were involved in a head-on collision, causing the commercial bus to flip over and burst into flames,” the statement said.

It said all the five passengers aboard the Hummer bus were burnt to death after the vehicle caught fire following the collision, stressing that preliminary identification showed that four of the deceased were serving NYSC members posted to Adamawa State.

The victims have been identified as Suleuman Juliet and Usman Shuaibu, both from Kaduna State, while efforts are ongoing to identify the rest of the victims.

The command also confirmed that a military personnel attached to the gun truck died in the accident and that the corpses have been evacuated to the Specialist Hospital, Yola. It said efforts were ongoing to identify the remaining bodies and locate their families.

The Adamawa State Commissioner of Police has sympathised with the families of the bereaved, the Nigerian Armed Forces, the NYSC and all those touched by the tragedy.

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A coalition of civil society groups under the aegis of Empowerment for Unemployed Youth Initiatives (EUYI) has called on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to make public the case of corruption against the sacked Minister of Humanitarian and Poverty Reduction Affairs, Dr Beta Edu.

Edu was suspended for an alleged diversion of more than 585 million naira ($640,000; £500,000) and more public money paid into a personal bank account.

The groups under the Convener, Coalition of Civil Society Groups, Kennedy Tabuko and Co-Convener, Empowerment for Unemployed Youth Initiatives (EUYI), Danesi Momoh, yesterday at a press conference in Abuja, decried her public appearances around the presidency, particularly with the First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, in recent times.

The coalition said it has been brought to its attention how the sacked minister lobbyists her way through to appear and attend so many serious government programmes, both at state and federal levels.

“This has to stop as of now,” it said. “This one act alone is rebranding the country as a corrupt country and no consequence for bad acts.

Tabuko, who spoke for the coalition, said it was very unfortunate that Nigeria is fast becoming a nation of no justice and no consequence for wrong actions by public officials.

“We see that abnormality is fast becoming normal and our norms and all that we hold dear are gradually giving way to mediocrity,” he added.

“For Beta Edu specifically, it feels not like a relaunch, but a comeback in a very serious sense, you not minding whose ox is gored.

“Most disgusting, Beta is seen moving freely and intimately without any iota of shame around the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, whom we all thought should fight aggressively and hate corruption in whatever way or form it appears, given her background as a pastor of one of the most renowned churches in the world.

“The EFCC has shamelessly refused to feed the Nigerian people with the findings of all corruption cases levelled against Beta Edu but will go all out to arrest and parade other citizens who commit less crimes, because they have no body to speak for them.

“Our curiosity is not only about Beta Edu but many more that we thought EFCC and ICPC should have brought to book to serve as a deterrent to others.

“We need to remind the president and the first lady that body language matters. “If Mrs Tinubu can be seen at a public function with a sacked government appointee who is still facing corruption charges, then it speaks volumes and tells the public perception of the current administration.

The coalition said it considered it imperative for the APC-led government to know that Edu’s public appearance in the political arena was not only a big shame and projects APC as a party that encourages corruption but would also bring about gross disrepute to the entire country, the giant of Africa.

“We wonder how a minister who was sacked, accused of corruption, gross misconduct and under investigation will summon so much courage to follow the president for an international assignment. What a pity!”

The coalition asked the EFCC to do justice to Edu’s case and gave a 5-day ultimatum before it would take pr the streets.

“We insist that as long as the case of Beta Edu is not determined and EFCC does not publish the corruption cases against the sacked minister, it will be a bad public image for the government and our dear nation to see Beta Edu around the corridors of power. The President and First Lady should take note of this.

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The Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke has said that Children’s Day is a reminder of the collective responsibility to nurture, protect and invest in the young generation.

The governor who congratulated children across the state and Nigeria on the 2026 Children’s Day celebration, described them as the hope, pride and future of society.

In a statement issued in Osogbo by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, Governor Adeleke said children are the reason why government must continue to work tirelessly to build a better future for the society.

The governor said children are “the foundation of tomorrow’s Osun State. “Every child has a right to quality education, health care, protection and equal opportunities, regardless of social background.”

“The dreams, gifts and hopes of children are key to the future growth and prosperity of the state,” he said.

He said the administration values all children in public schools, private institutions and government care homes equally.

“Children are the hope, pride and future of the society,” the governor said.

Adeleke reiterated his administration’s commitment to policies and programmes aimed at the welfare, growth and development of children across the state.

He said there were continuous efforts to improve access to quality education, safe learning environments, child welfare services and better living conditions for young people.

The governor also urged parents, guardians, teachers and religious leaders to continue to inculcate discipline, moral values, respect and compassion in children, adding that raising responsible children is a collective responsibility.

Adeleke cautioned against child abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence, adding that any society that failed to protect its children was in danger of jeopardizing its future.

“As we celebrate our children today, I assure every parent and child that our administration will leave no stone unturned in protecting and developing the future of our young ones,” the governor stated.

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The leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB has directed all churches across the South-East and parts of the South-South to hold special memorial and thanksgiving services on Sunday, May 31, 2026.
The group said the services are meant to honour and remember millions of lives lost in the Nigerian-Biafran civil war.
The directive is part of activities marking the 59th anniversary of the declaration of Biafra by the late General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu on May 30, 1967.

This was contained in a statement by the National Director of Information of MASSOB, Edeson Samuel.
The statement from the faction of the movement led by Comrade Uchenna Madu said this year’s anniversary was a major milestone in the ongoing struggle for self-determination.
As part of the commemoration, the separatist group had earlier declared a mandatory sit-at-home order on Saturday, May 30, 2026, across the region, which it described as a day of sober reflection, remembrance and civil disobedience.
“MASSOB has earlier announced that all markets, public and private motor parks, schools, banks and other public business premises shall remain closed from 6 am to 4pm on 30th May, 2026,” Samuel said.
“The closure of these public places and services are signs of honour, respect and patriotism to our fatherland. It is a mark of appreciation and acknowledgement of the numerous sacrifices and prices our fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters rendered for Biafra during the three years of war.”
But the pro-Biafra group cautioned its members against any form of public gathering that could lead to confrontations with security agencies.
There would be no physical demonstrations, street marches, processions or any other public functions anywhere in the region on May 30, the statement said.
The group also said it is leveraging the 59th anniversary to show solidarity with the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Indigenous People of Biafra), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (Nnamdi Kanu), while demanding his immediate and unconditional release from state custody.
MASSOB said major cities in the region are likely to be heavily populated with security agents before the anniversary and urged residents to remain resolute.
“MASSOB is aware that the armed Nigerian Army, Mobile Police, DSS operatives and Civil Defence will be heavily deployed in major cities. ’No matter how much intimidation, killings, detention or oppression by security, the willpower of an indigenous people for self-determination will never be stopped,’ the statement said.

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Activist and social commentator, Justice Chidiebere, popularly known as JusticeCrack, has alleged that officials of the Defence Intelligence Agency, DIA, abducted him while disguising themselves as operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS.

Justice Crack made the claims in a post on X Tuesday, saying he was subjected to inhumane treatment while in custody.

He said he was blindfolded and handcuffed for three days, kept in the burning sun during the day and locked in a freezing cold room at night.

He added that the intervention of Nigerians who asked questions about his whereabouts also prevented him from going missing without a trace.

He added that because the matter was still before the court, he was limited in what he could disclose publicly.

“JusticeCrack has never been cracked and it will never be cracked. The DIA took me, they came to arrest me, disguised as DSS officers.

“It was only when Nigerians started talking and demanding answers, they finally took me to the DSS. They wanted to make me disappear. And if it wasn’t for the intervention of Nigerians I may have been gone forever.

“After three days of inhumane treatment, I would like to state that I was blindfolded and handcuffed throughout the three days. In the daytime they exposed me to the hot sun, at night they locked me in a cold room.

“As this matter is still in court I am limited to what I can say at this time. But in fact it was the DIA that took me prisoner and brought me to the CIC. I didn’t realize this until I was transferred to the DSS, at which point I was told.

Justice, he wrote, can never be cracked.

Chidiebere’s ordeal reportedly started in late April 2026 and was reported missing by his family after dropping his child off in school in Abuja.

He was confirmed to be in military custody by the Nigerian Army on 2 May after public outrage and accusations of enforced disappearance.

The military said he was arrested “in connection with some videos and posts that have gone viral of frontline soldiers complaining about poor feeding and welfare conditions”, with the authorities describing the acts as bordering on subversion and incitement of military personnel.

He was later handed over to the civil authorities and arraigned by the DSS before the Federal High Court, Abuja on a three-count charge bordering on cybercrime and conduct likely to cause a breach of public peace.

Justice Crack was remanded in the custody of the DSS but was granted N5 million bail by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik on May 18, 2026.

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