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 ISIS militants opened fire on police during an overnight raid in Turkey’s western Yalova province on Monday, killing three people and injuring eight others, according to authorities. Turkish authorities said six ISIS members were killed and five other people were detained in the operation which lasted more than seven hours in the village of Elmalik, 62 miles (100 kilometers) from Istanbul. The raid came as law enforcement authorities stepped up raids ahead of what they say are planned attacks against minorities during the winter holidays. Social media videos of the operation showed a nighttime gunfight as police raided a suspected ISIS safehouse. Footage shot later showed smoke billowing from the area of the raid and fire trucks racing to the scene. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the raid was conducted with “a great deal of care because there were women and children at the address.” The five women and six children at the address were taken to safety, he said in his televised...

  Two people were killed when a Palestinian man launched a car-ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel, police said Friday. The suspect is a Palestinian from the occupied West Bank, according to police, who said he ran over a 68-year-old Israeli pedestrian in the city of Beit She’an and then stabbed a 17-year-old female Israeli  near the kibbutz of Ein Harod in what police described as a “rolling terror attack.” A 16-year-old boy was injured in the attack , according to the MDA emergency services. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later identified the 68-year-old victim as Shimshon Mordechai and the 17-year-old as Aviv Maor. A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that the preliminary investigation indicates “the terrorist is an illegal resident who infiltrated Israeli  territory several days ago.” Police said the attacker was ultimately confronted by a civilian bystander in the nearby city of Afula and evacuated to a hospital in moderate co...

  A man was arrested after stabbing eight people and injuring seven others with what was believed to be bleach at a tire factory in central Japan on Friday, officials said. There was no immediate explanation of his motive. Eight people were taken to hospitals after being stabbed by the man with a knife at a factory of the tiremaker Yokohama Rubber Co. in the city of Mishima, in the Shizuoka  prefecture, west of Tokyo, according to the Fujisan Nanto Fire Department. The fire department told The Associated Press that five of the people who were stabbed were in serious condition but other details were not available. Shizuoka prefectural police said the attacker, a 38-year-old man, was arrested for alleged attempted murder at the factory, but did not give further details. The suspect was carrying a survival knife and wearing what appeared to be a gas mask, the major Japanese newspaper Asahi reported, citing investigators. Seven others were also injured by the bleach thrown at them...

Thieves used the quiet Christmas period to drill their way into the vault of a German retail bank and make off with at least 10 million euros’ worth of money and valuables from customers’ deposit boxes, police said on Tuesday. The perpetrators drilled through a thick concrete wall at a branch of Sparkasse bank in the western city of Gelsenkirchen and then broke into several thousand safe deposit boxes and stole a sum estimated in the double-digit millions of euros, the police said in a statement. Most shops and banks close in Germany over the Christmas period starting from the evening of December 24, and police only discovered the hole after a fire alarm went off in the early hours of Monday, December 29. Dozens of angry customers gathered in front of the bank on Tuesday loudly chanting “Let us in!.” “I couldn’t sleep last night. We’re getting no information,” one man told the Welt broadcaster as he waited outside the branch, adding that he had been using the safe for 25 years and that...

 Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist who was a granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, died on Tuesday, her family announced. She was 35. “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the family said in a statement posted on social media by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Schlossberg’s death comes a month after she announced in an essay in The New Yorker that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation known as Inversion 3, a genetic anomaly found in less than 2% of AML cases. Doctors discovered the cancer shortly after she gave birth to her daughter in May 2024, she said. Schlossberg detailed her diagnosis and the grueling treatment process in her essay, reflecting, “I did not—could not—believe that they were talking about me.” “I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I kne...

 BREAKING: Boko Haram Terrorists Attack Adamawa Communities, Kill 14 Residents, Set Ablaze Shops, Food Stores  There is grief in Zah and Mubang communities in Yadul, Garaha District of Hong Local Government Area, Adamawa State, after suspected Boko Haram fighters launched yet another deadly attack, killing no fewer than 14 people and injuring two others. Residents said that the assailants stormed the villages at about 6:16pm on Monday, December 29, 2025, unleashing violence that claimed the lives of elders and youths. 

  President Bola Tinubu has declared that the new tax laws will take effect from January 1, 2026, as planned, despite objections from some quarters The President made the declaration in a statement on Tuesday in which he explained that the new laws are not designed to raise taxes but to drive harmonization. President Tinubu noted that his administration is aware of agitations in some quarters over the new tax laws, but added that no substantial issue has been raised to warrant a suspension of the implementation  He promised that the government would ensure due process in the implementation of the laws and work with all stakeholders, including the National Assembly, to resolve all identified issues against the new tax laws. “The new tax laws, including those that took effect on June 26, 2025, and the remaining acts scheduled to commence on January 1, 2026, will continue as planned. “These reforms are a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a fair, competitive, and robust fi...

According to residents, security agencies have been alerted, and residents of nearby communities are being urged to exercise extreme caution, limit unnecessary movement, and report any suspicious activity to the authorities. Several persons have reportedly been abducted along the Omi-Odo Ara Road in Yagba West Local Government Area, according to local sources.  The incident occurred earlier today, Tuesday, December 30, 2025, though the exact number of victims and their identities remain unconfirmed. According to residents, security agencies have been alerted, and residents of nearby communities are being urged to exercise extreme caution, limit unnecessary movement, and report any suspicious activity to the authorities. In a similar incident in the local government area, SaharaReporters reported on Monday that tension had gripped Odo-Ere community following a coordinated Sunday night attack by terrorists that resulted in the abduction of at least four residents. Those kidnapped dur...

One of the charges claims Malami and his son procured over N1,014,848,500 through Metropolitan Auto Tech Ltd between July 2022 and June 2025 to conceal the origin of funds in a Sterling Bank account. Abubakar Abdulaziz Malami, son of former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (SAN), Abubakar Malami, who was remanded at Kuje Correctional Centre alongside his father and the latter’s fourth wife, Hajia Bashir Asabe, has been rushed to the prison clinic. Sources told SaharaReporters that Abdulaziz was admitted for observation after he suddenly fell ill on Tuesday. “Malami’s son suddenly fell sick and was rushed to Kuje clinic to stay there for observation,” a prison source told SaharaReporters.  Earlier on Tuesday, December 30, 2025, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned Malami alongside his fourth wife, Asabe, and his son, Abdulaziz, before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Maitama, Abuja.  The defendants face a 16-cou...

  T he Nigerian government has filed charges against a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, and his son, Abubakar Abdulaziz Malami, before the Federal High Court in Abuja. The charges stem from allegations of money laundering involving funds of unlawful origin amounting to more than ₦1.014 billion. Court documents sighted by SaharaReporters reveal that the defendants were charged in a criminal suit marked FHC/ABJ/CR/700/2025, filed by the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Also listed as a co-defendant in the case is Hajia Bashir Asabe According to the 16 charges, the government accused Malami, his son and others of being involved in the laundering and concealment of N1,014,848,500.00 (One Billion, Fourteen Million, Eight Hundred and Forty-Eight Thousand, Five Hundred Naira) allegedly traced to a Sterling Bank Plc account (No. 0079182387). The prosecution alleged that the huge sum, domiciled in the said account, was of unlawful ori...

  According to the statement, the police said “the affected area has been cordoned off to ensure public safety and facilitate emergency operations” shortly after the explosion. At least five people were killed while 35 others sustained injuries following an explosion at a mosque located within Gamboru Market, Maiduguri, Borno State. The Borno State Police Command confirmed the incident in a press release on Wednesday, stating that it received “a report of an IED explosion” on December 24, 2025, “at about 1800hrs, at Al-Adum Juma’at Mosque, located within Gamboru Market, Maiduguri, during prayers.” The press release was signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Nahum Kenneth Daso, on behalf of the Borno State Police Command, and dated December 24, 2025. According to the statement, the police said “the affected area has been cordoned off to ensure public safety and facilitate emergency operations” shortly after the explosion. The command disclosed that its response was carri...

  Military officers and civilians being held by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Abuja over an alleged plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s government have been in detention for about three months, military sources have told SaharaReporters. SaharaReporters also learnt that family members of the detainees, said to be more than 50 in number, have been denied access to them since their arrest. “ Their family members have been cut off from them. There are over 50 detainees, including civilians and they have spent three months in detention,” one of the sources said. The case is being handled by the Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI), Lieutenant General Emmanuel Parker Undiandeye, who heads the DIA. President Tinubu reappointed Undiandeye as Chief of Defence Intelligence on October 24, 2025. He first assumed office as the 17th CDI on June 23, 2023. The DIA, established in 1986, is Nigeria’s primary military intelligence body. It is responsible for gathering and providing i...

  According to eyewitness accounts, the pastor was traveling on a motorcycle to his farm along the Okeoffin–Okoro Gbedde axis, accompanied by a commercial rider, when they were confronted by the assailants. A pastor of the Living Faith Church, also known as Winners Chapel, was reportedly kidnapped by armed bandits on Saturday while going to his farm in Okoro Gbedde, Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State. According to eyewitness accounts, the pastor was traveling on a motorcycle to his farm along the Okeoffin–Okoro Gbedde axis, accompanied by a commercial rider, when they were confronted by the assailants.  Sources revealed that upon seeing the kidnappers, the pastor “jumped off the motorcycle”.  “ The commercial rider managed to escape unharmed, while the pastor was abducted and taken to an unknown location,” a source said. As of the time of filing this report, the kidnappers had not contacted the pastor’s family or the church, and no ransom demand had been made. The ...

N o fewer than seven members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) have been confirmed dead, while four others sustained injuries in a lone fatal road accident involving an NUJ bus in Gombe State. The vehicle, which belongs to the NUJ, Gombe State Council, was involved in the crash along the Gombe–Yola highway on Saturday, SaharaReporters has gathered. A photograph obtained by shows the NUJ vehicle badly mangled, underscoring the severity of the accident. The journalists were travelling from Gombe State to Yola, Adamawa State, when the incident occurred shortly after their departure from Gombe. It was further learnt that the victims were part of a delegation returning from a wedding ceremony held in Gombe South Senatorial District. The journalists had attended the wedding of a colleague, an employee of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), before embarking on the journey. Four other journalists reportedly sustained varying degrees of injuries and were rushed to a nearby medical ...

  A source who witnessed the arrest of Miss Nnaji, but appealed not to be mentioned lamented the cruel way and manner the police from the Asaba Area Command dehumanised and manhandled her over the possession of a condom. Some lawless policemen attached to the Asaba Area Command, Delta State Police Command, have allegedly dehumanised and detained a 28 years old Enugu woman in Asaba, SaharaReporters has learnt. I reliably gathered that the 28 years old woman, identified as Miss Chinenye Nnaji was arrested following the discovery of a condom in her bag. A source who witnessed the arrest of Miss Nnaji, but appealed not to be mentioned lamented the cruel way and manner the police from the Asaba Area Command dehumanised and manhandled her over the possession of a condom. According to the source, Miss Nnaji was arrested and picked up on Saturday, December, 20, 2025, at about 11pm at Pinnacle junction, Asaba where she was eating and dragged into a waiting police Sienna vehicle and taken to...

  Malami, his son and another defendant were earlier arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 16-count charge bordering on alleged money laundering, unlawful acquisition of assets and conspiracy. A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday fixed January 2, 2026, for the hearing of the bail applications filed by former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, his son and one other defendant.  The court also ordered that Malami and his son together with the third defendant  be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre pending the determination of their bail requests.  Malami, his son and another defendant were earlier arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 16-count charge bordering on alleged money laundering, unlawful acquisition of assets and conspiracy. A video posted by the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) on X on Tuesday morning showed the former Attorney-Ge...

  The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has reacted to the controversies surrounding the recently enacted tax reform acts The NBA president, Afam Osigwe, said the alleged alteration has cast doubts on the integrity and transparency of the lawmaking process in the country Hon. Abdussamad Dasuki has alleged that the gazetted tax laws are different from the version passed by the national assembly. The NBA president, Afam Osigwe, said the controversies surrounding the enacted tax reform acts cast doubts on the integrity of the lawmaking process in Nigeria.  A member of the House of Representatives, Abdussamad Dasuki, alleged that the gazetted tax laws are different from the version passed.   The NBA said the development is at the very heart of constitutional governance. Osigwe said it calls into question the procedural sanctity that must attend lawmaking in a democratic society. This was contained in a statement issued by Osigwe via his X handle @afamosigwe on Tuesday, December ...