.. Wishes members of Armed Forces Happy New Year By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, has commended personnel of the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) for their outstanding performance in ensuring a safe and secure country throughout 2021. The CDS gave the...
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A former Nigerian Army spokesman, Brigadier General Sani Usman, has hailed the surrendering of terrorists to security agents, describing it as historic. Brig. Gen. Usman also said the procurement of more arms for security operatives is a big win in the fight against insecurity. He made the comment on...
The Nigerian Army (NA) has lost its bid to upturn a judgment compelling them to reinstate Colonel Danladi Ribah Hassan who was wrongly retired compulsorily retired in 2016. A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, in a judgment on Friday, dismissed the appeal by the Nigerian...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Nigeria Army authorities on Thursday said that six soldiers were killed when troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) clashed with Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists in Mallam Fatori Town in the fringes of the Lake Chad region. The terrorists also suffered...
….Urges them to restore peace and security in the country* By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (rtd) has charged the newly promoted senior officers of the Nigerian Army (NA) to discharge their duties professionally and remain loyal to the constitution of the...
Three persons have reportedly been killed on Sunday after gunmen suspected to be bandits invaded some communities under Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An unspecified number of villagers, mostly women, were said to have been kidnapped during the assault. Some of the villages said to have been...
Burkina Faso began two days of mourning on Sunday after 41 people died in the latest attack by suspected jihadists in the troubled and largely unprotected north. A bloody six-year-long jihadist campaign has claimed around 2,000 lives and forced 1.4 million from their homes in the formerly peaceful West...
By MARK JANG, Jos – Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the traditional ruler of Gindri, Mr Charles Mato, in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State on Sunday. Maj. Ishaku Takwa, Media Officer of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), the military task force maintaining peace in the state,...
Katsina Police Command says it has arrested a 45-year-old man, Sani Mamuda, for allegedly supplying arms and ammunition to bandits in Katsina and Zamfara States. The Katsina Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), SP Gambo Isa, disclosed this while parading the suspects on Thursday at the police headquarters in Katsina....
The Defence Headquarters says the troops of Operation Delta Safe have immobilised 14 illegal refining sites and recovered large quantity of stolen products in the Niger Delta region in the last two weeks. The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this, while given update on military...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – In what would appear as stock-taking, the Defence Headquartes (DHQ) said on Thursday that the war waged against insurgency and other forms of criminality across the country, yielded appreciable results in the last one year. Briefing journalists on the operational activities of the Armed...
Over 70 travellers have been reportedly kidnapped by gunmen suspected to bandits along the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari Road on Wednesday. The incident occurred around Udawa village after Buruku in Chikun Local Government Area of the state. According to an eyewitness account, the vehicles conveying the travellers, mainly traders, were attacked...
The Nigerian Armed Forces has just promoted a total of 235 Senior Military Officers following a meeting of the Army Council, Navy council and the Air Council respectively, held at the Ministry of Defence with the Minister of Defence, Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi (Rtd) as presiding chairman. In the exercise,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Army Council has approved the promotion of 117 senior officers to Major and Brigadier Generals. A statement issued on Wednesday by the Army’s spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said the promotion, comprising of 41 brigadier generals to the ranks of major generals and...
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in a joint operation with the Police Command in Taraba have raided various criminal hideouts and rescued some kidnap victims. Force Public Relations Officer, Mr Frank Mba stated in Abuja on Sunday that kidnap victims at the various hideouts were...
The notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji, is ‘incapacitated’ after sustaining severe injuries when military fighter jets raided his hideouts and bandits camps in the North West, PRNigeria learnt from credible sources. The attack jets of the Air Task Force, ATF, Operation Hadin Kai, also killed several bandits, in the...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna- Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed more than 20 persons and destroyed property worth millions of Naira in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Saturday. The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, confirmed this in a statement...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Oyo State Command has arrested about 70 suspected armed robbers, pipeline and electric cable vandals between January and December, 2021. The state Commandant, Adaralewa Michael, disclosed this in a statement issued by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Oluwole Olusegun, and made...
The Nigerian Army says reports in social media alleging that troops tortured one Christian Ehima to death in Edo are false and misleading. Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, denied the allegation in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja. Nwachukwu stated that the Nigerian army as a...