Mr President, sir, I hope this open letter will not be misconstrued, as happened above six years ago, precisely in January 2020, when I wrote a memo to former President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to disengage service chiefs who had overstayed their tenures and whose continued stay was eroding...
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Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund ), has pledged support for Defence Research and Development Bureau (RDB) for its research and development plans. Speaking while receiving the Director General of RDB, Rear Admiral K J Odubanjo and his team in his office on Wednesday in Abuja , the Executive Secretary...
Theatre Commander, Joint Task Force (North East) Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), Major General Abdulsalam Abubakar, has decorated five newly promoted senior officers with the rank of Brigadier General. The colourful investiture ceremony, held on Tuesday at the Theatre Command Officers’ Mess, Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri, attracted serving and retired senior...
In a swift and coordinated operation, troops of the Nigerian Army’s Joint Task Force Sector One, Operation Udo Ka (OPUK), have rescued 14 kidnapped victims from a criminal hideout inside Orokam Forest, a border axis between Udenu LGA in Enugu State and Ogbadigbo LGA in Benue State. Security sources...
Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, has urged newly commissioned officers of the Nigerian Army to place national interest above all personal considerations as they begin their careers in service to the country. Shaibu gave the charge on Saturday at the Jaji Military Cantonment, where 250...
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Saturday, addressed troops of 25 Task Force Brigade of Nigerian Army, declaring the state’s and its people’s support for their relentless fight against Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgents. The governor, speaking at a front-line military base in Damboa, sympathised deeply with the officers...
The judgment creditors (Peter Orngu and 13 others) and Tiv traditional rulers from the Sankera and Kwande axis of Benue State, North-Central Nigeria, have petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Makurdi Zonal Office, over the alleged fraudulent collection of N8 billion by Hon. Eze Nwa of Rhemalaw...
Security operatives in Borno State have thwarted a Boko Haram raid on Malari, a farming community in Konduga Local Government Area, and have now intensified efforts to rescue three villagers kidnapped during the attack. According to the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Nahum Daso, the assault unfolded on November...
A wave of relief swept through communities in southern Borno after troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) successfully freed 12 young girls abducted by ISWAP fighters in Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno. The girls, aged between 15 and 20, were kidnapped on November 23 while harvesting crops on...
Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris has called for a full-scale investigation into why soldiers guarding Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, pulled out barely an hour before armed bandits stormed the premises and abducted 25 students. Idris made the demand on Friday while receiving the Minister of State for...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has postponed his scheduled trip to Johannesburg, South Africa and Luanda, Angola, as he awaits further security briefings on the kidnapped Kebbi schoolgirls and the bandits’ attack on Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) worshippers in Eruku, Kwara State. In response to the request by the governor of Kwara State,...
President Bola Tinubu has asked Vice President Kashim Shettima to visit Kebbi State on Wednesday to sympathise with the Kebbi State government and assure parents and guardians of the kidnapped schoolgirls that the government will ensure their quick release. President Tinubu in a statement by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, also...
In continued efforts to disrupt the activities of armed criminals within the Joint Operations Area (JOA), troops of Sector 2 (Sub-Sector 2) Operation ENDURING PEACE (OPEP) Bokkos, conducted a raid on suspected gunrunners’ hideout on 13 November 2025 at Fashoron Village, Daffo District, Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has defended his recent confrontation with a naval officer during a dispute over a plot of land said to be linked to a former Chief of Naval Staff. Speaking to journalists on Thursday just before the FCT Executive Council meeting, Wike...
National Chairman of the Pan Niger Forum (PANDEF), Amb Godknows Boladei Igali, has the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, deserves national apology for being prevented from performing his duties by soldiers on illegal duties in Abuja. Amb. Igali, on his way out of the Port Harcourt International Airport to...
At a time when integrity in public service often appears to be slipping into obscurity, Officer A.M. Yerima has not only reminded FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike that he’s not “a fool” but also the nation that honour and principle still dwell within the ranks of the Nigerian military. Yerima’s...
A tense confrontation unfolded in Abuja on Tuesday as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, clashed with a group of soldiers and city officials over a disputed parcel of land in the Gaduwa District. The altercation began when armed soldiers reportedly blocked Wike and his...
Former Aviation Minister, Osita Chidoka, has called on Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike to publicly apologise to the military officer he verbally confronted in Abuja on Tuesday during a row over a disputed plot of land. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that a video that circulated online earlier in...
Pentagon has received contingency plans for possible air operations in Nigeria after US President Donald Trump directed the Defense Department to “prepare to intervene” to protect Christians from attacks, The New York Times has reported. According to the report, U.S. Africa Command submitted a set of operational options to...
Scores of Boko Haram terrorists were neutralized by troops of Joint Task Force North East ‘Operation Hadin Kai’, with support from Nigerien Air Force when the terrorists attempted to invade Forward Operation Base (FOB) in Kangar, Mallam fatori town, Abbadam local area of Borno state. The incident which took...