By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – More than 125 terrorists and other criminal elements were neutralized in the last two weeks as troops of the Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies continued their operational engagements against security challenges across the country. Also, a total of 174 Boko Haram...
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There are fears that several security operatives might have been killed late on Tuesday after bandits attacked the convoy of Colonel Samaila Yombe Dabai (rtd), the Deputy Governor of Kebbi State. The deputy governor was attacked on his way back from Danko-Wassagu Local Government Area of the state where...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Wednesday said its operatives have arrested a notorious drug dealer, Identified as Micha Godwin, at Nukai Market in Jalingo, the Taraba State’s capital. In the course of the arrest, the anti-narcotic officers came under attack and...
The Benin Zonal Command of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), says it rescued 105 victims of human trafficking in various operations in 2021. Mr Nduka Nwannwenne, the Zonal Commander, NAPTIP, said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over what he described as “the brutal murder of tens of vigilante members in Kebbi by bandits. The bandits ambushed the vigilante members in the Sakaba/Wassagu Local Government Area. The president made his feelings known in a statement issued by his Senior Special...
The Nigerian Army says troops of ”Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK)” eliminated 17 Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in Damasak, Mobbar Local Government Area of Borno. Damasak, the main town of the Mobbar Local Government Area, is located near the confluence of the Yobe River and Komadugu...
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, has assured Nigerians that the year 2022 will see peace returning to all troubled parts of the country. Gen. Irabor gave the assurance on Saturday in Abuja at the 2022 International Military Sports Council’s Day Run for the armed forces and...
The Federal Government is committed to building a strong Armed Forces. Defence Minister rtd. Maj.- Gen Bashir Magashi gave the assurance during the Armed Forces Special Day at the ongoing 43rd Kaduna International Trade Fair. Magashi, represented by his Special Adviser Technical, Maj.-Gen. Ahmad Jibrin, also reiterated the federal...
No fewer than 200 bandit terrorists were yesterday killed in Ghana, a community in Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State, PRNigeria reports. The bandits, it was learnt, were eliminated by air strikes of Nigerian military air troops. The aerial operation by the Nigerian Airforce (NAF), Air Component of...
Niger State Police Command has confirmed the killing of “many bandits” by the Joint Security Task Force in the North-Central state. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Bala Kuryas, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday in Minna that several bandits were neutralised by the joint security...
The Armed Forces of Nigeria and the Egyptian Armed Forces are major players on the African continent. “Egypt and Nigeria are major players on the African continent and a meeting by both parties should be for the interest of the continent,’’ Chief of Defence Policy and Plans, AVM Ayo...
Boko Haram terrorists at the weekend ambushed a jihadist Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) around Gabara/Galta hideouts close to Mandara mountains of Lake Chad axis. It was learnt that Boko Haram destroyed four ISWAP’s guntrucks with Russian Dushka and Browning Machine Guns (BMGs). ISWAP Commander, Abou Sadiquo Buorubouru...
The Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) have killed scores of Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists and impounded large quantities of their logistic supplies in Kirawa on the Nigeria and Cameroon borders. The Chief of Military Public Information for MNJTF, Col. Muhammad Dole, in a statement on Monday in N’Djamena Chad,...
At least ten persons have been killed by suspected bandits during separate attacks in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The bandits also kidnapped an unspecified number of people, mainly women, from the communities during the operation that lasted for several hours. Although the state and police...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Police command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has rescued 11 kidnap victims in Gwargwada community in Kuje Area Council of the territory. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the FCT, DSP Josephine Adeh, made this known in a statement on Saturday...
Gunmen attacked four banks and a Police Divisional Headquarters on Thursday as they laid siege on Uromi town in Esan Northeast Local Government Area of Edo. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen got to the town in their numbers and in several vehicles before they attacked the four banks with dynamites....
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have continued to record successes as 466 terrorists surrendered while scores were killed in different operations within two weeks in North East, Defence Headquarters says. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, said this while giving updates of military operations across the country...
The renewed clash between rival cult groups in some areas at Ilesa, Osun State, has reportedly left 10 people dead. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that blood flowed as rival suspected cultists clashed at Brewery, Ifofin, Idasa and Irojo areas of the town on Monday and extended...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri – The Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Justice Rita Pemu has escaped an assassination attempt by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers while traveling to Owerri from Benin City. NATIONAL ACCORD learnt that the incident occured along Azia-Orsumoghu-Ihiala Road about 11am on Sunday. A...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Force Commander (FC), Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), Major General Abdul Khalifah Ibrahim, has called for proactive partnership between MNJTF and UK forces, pointing out that working together with partners will speedily end terrorism in the region Maj. Gen. Ibrahim said such...