BREAKING: Nigeria’s Minister of Defence Resigns Amidst Escalating National Security Crisis

  The Minister of Defence Mohammed Badaru Abubakar has tendered his resignation to President Bola Tinubu, effective immediately, amid escalating nationwide insecurity that has claimed hundreds of lives in recent months. The announcement, confirmed by sources close to the Presidency late Monday, comes just days after a spate of brazen attacks, including the mass abduction […]

Civil Society Group Demands Defence Minister’s Sack Over Rising Insecurity in Nigeria

A Nigerian civil society organisation, Ethics Vanguard, has called on President Bola Tinubu to immediately sack the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, accusing him of failing to tackle the country’s worsening security crisis. In a statement released on Monday in Abuja, the group’s Executive Director, Amina Mohammed, described the minister’s performance as “grossly incompetent” […]