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A Bomb making factory has been discovered at Okpella. The strangers who were living in the premises with their wives and children, which the community thought they were farmers, little did they know that the premises was a bomb making factory. Okpella Bomb explosion Nemesis Caught up with them, one of the bombs exploded killing one of them while fabricating them. the explosion called the attention of neighbors, While the Community tried to find out the cause of the explosion, they quickly packed the bombs and other weapons into their car to escape, members of the community gave them a pursuit when they took off. With the help of the Edo State Police Command three suspects were arrested for assembling items used in the manufacture of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). The suspects, all Kogi State indigenes, are Idris Ibrahim, 22; Zainab Ibrahim and Oyeza Abdul. They were arrested at Okugbe area, near Iddo village in Okpella, Estako East Local Government Area. The main su...

A group of Islamist gunmen involved in the storming of a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital, Bamako, continued to hold out against security forces on Friday even after the evacuation of all civilians from the building, a security ministry spokesman said. “The attackers no longer have hostages. They are dug in in the upper floors. They are alone with the Malian special forces who are trying to dislodge them,” spokesman Amadou Sangho said.

The massacre in Paris last friday night was the latest in a series of terror attacks which have brought fear and bloodshed to France this year 2015. Shell-shocked French citizens have seen their country come under repeated attack throughout 2015, starting with the Charlie Hebdo killings in January. Five months later, a suspected Islamist beheaded his boss and tried to blow up a U.S-owned industrial gas plant in the suburbs of Lyon. And in July a machine gun-toting attacker wounded three people on a high-speed train in France before he was overpowered by several passengers The latest horrific attack comes with reports claiming that the terrorists told their hostages that they were carrying out their rampage of violence in retribution for France's use of air strikes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Fears remain that France may be the country of choice for another terror attacks, with concerns surrounding about extremists radicalising vulnerable individuals from parts of the capital...

"In an unprecedented move, the United States has posted up to $US23 million ($A24.04 million) in rewards to help track down five leaders of militant groups accused of spreading terror in west Africa. The highest reward of $US7 million is offered for the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, who last week called on Islamists in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to join the bloody fight to create an Islamic state in Nigeria. The US State Department's Rewards for Justice program also targeted Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), offering its first ever bounties for wanted militants in west Africa. Up to $US5 million was posted for Al-Qaeda veteran Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed Islamist behind the devastating attack on an Algerian gas plant in January in which 37 foreigners, including three Americans, were killed. A further $US5 million was offered for top AQIM leader Yahya Abou Al-Hammam, reportedly involved in the 2010 murder of an elderly French hostage in Niger. Mal...

With thousands of porous borders , how will Nigeria not be home of foreign terrorist groups? "Joint Task Force on Thursday said it had uncovered a Lebanon-based Hezbollah armoury and terror cell in Bompai, Kano State. The force, which said it found large cache of arms and ammunition, also confirmed the arrest of three persons in connection with the armoury and the cell. A Lebanese national currently out of the country reportedly owns the premises where the armoury and the cell were found at No 3, Gaya Road, Off Bompai Road in the ancient city. A statement by the JTF spokesman, Captain Ikedichi Iweha, said the JTF operatives, comprising officials of the 3rd Army Brigade in Kano and the State Security Service conducted the operations. The operatives, he said, uncovered an underground bunker in the premises where large quantities of assorted weapons were hidden. Iweha, who said the construction of the bunker was special, listed anti-tank weapons, rocket propelled guns ...

" A U.S. drone strike killed the number two of the Pakistani Taliban in the North Waziristan region on Wednesday, three security officials said, in what would be a major blow in the fight against militancy. The drone strike killed seven people, Pakistani security officials said, including Taliban deputy commander Wali-ur-Rehman, in the first such attack since a May 11 general election in which the use of the unmanned aircraft was a major issue. Wali-ur-Rehman had been poised to succeed Hakimullah Mehsud as leader of the Pakistani Taliban, a senior army official based in the South Waziristan region, had said in December. "This is a huge blow to militants and a win in the fight against insurgents," one security official told Reuters, declining further comment. The Pakistani Taliban are a separate entity allied to the Afghan Taliban. Known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), they have launched devastating attacks against the Pakistani military and civilians. ...

President Barack Obama's speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House: ------ It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791-- standing guard in the early days of the Republic, and contemplating the future of warfare here in the 21st century. For over two centuries, the United States has been bound together by founding documents that defined who we are as Americans, and served as our compass through every type of change. Matters of war and peace are no different. Americans are deeply ambivalent about war, but having fought for our independence, we know that a price must be paid for freedom. From the Civil War, to our struggle against fascism, and through the long, twilight struggle of the Cold War, battlefields have changed, and technology has evolved. But our commitment to constitutional principles has weathered every war, and eve...