Some stakeholders in North East have commended the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for degrading insurgents and improving security situation in the region. A cross section of the stakeholders who spoke to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states known as the worst affected states...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Nigerian Army says its troops have rescued one additional girl from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, nine years after their abduction by Boko Haram in 2014. Ms. Saratu Dauda, who was rescued by troops of Operation Hadin Kai in Sambisa Forest on...
Two Chibok schoolgirls, who have been in captivity since 2014, have been rescued, following massive troops operations in parts of Sambisa forest. A security officer at the 7 Division, Maimalari Cantonment (name withheld), confirmed the development to journalists on 24 April. “The Chibok schoolgirls escapees were identified as Hauwa...
The Nigeria Army, on Wednesday, completed pre-deployment training for 172 troops for peace-keeping mission in Guinea Bissau. The troops began their pre-deployment training on March 21 at the Martin Luther Agwai International Leadership and Peace Keeping Centre (MLAILPKC), Jaji, Kaduna state. Addressing the troops, the Chief of Operations, Army,...
Repentant Boko Haram insurgents on Tuesday in Maiduguri dismissed Reuters news agency’s reports of rights abuses by the military in the northeast. Reuters had reported in a three-part series that troops of “Operation Hadin Kai’’ in the northeast conducted illegal abortions on 10,000 women and massacred children of insurgents....
The Chief of Administration (Army), Maj.-Gen. Okpe Ali, says the understanding of the major indigenous languages by the troops of the Nigerian Army will enhance their operations. Ali said this during the inauguration of the Indigenous Languages Course 12/2023 organised by the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC) on Thursday...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division and Commander Sector 1 Operation HADIN KAI, Major General Waidi Shaibu has charged troops of 112 Task Force Battalion to sustain an aggressive and ruthless posture against the remnants of Boko Haram Terrorists and their counterparts, ISWAP...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Troops of 13 Brigade Nigerian Army, Calabar, deployed for Operation Akpakwu, have rescued the Commissioner for Women Affairs in Cross River, Mrs Gertrude Njar, from captivity. Mrs. Njar, who has been under captivity for 35 days, was rescue by the troops on Wednesday around...
Troops of Operation Forest Sanity have eliminated 10 terrorists and recovered cache of arms and ammunition in recent encounters in Katsina, Kebbi and Zamfara State. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, made this known in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Danmadami said the troops had on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Troops of 82 Division, Nigerian Army have raided the camps of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra and its Eastern Security Network (IPOB/ESN) in Ebonyi and Enugu State. The Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, the raid...
Community vigilantes and youths have arrested suspected terrorists and handed them to security authorities in Niger State. PRNigeria gathered the suspected terrorists were arrested during a search and interrogation of strange people in Wawa district of New Bussa. A source who participated in the search in an audio sent...
The 34 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Obinze, Owerri, says gunmen on Monday, attacked its officers on patrol at Izombe community, Oguta council area of Imo. The Brigade’s Spokesperson, Capt. Joseph Akubo, confirmed this while speaking with newsmen in Owerri on Monday. Akubo said that the incident...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Troops of “Operation Forest Sanity’’ have neutralised many bandits and dislodged many others from their camps Chikun and Igabi LGAs of Kaduna State. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, who disclosed this in a statement issued in Kaduna...
More details have emerged on how an intelligence-led joint military operation killed top Commanders and terrorists of the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, in the Bama and Sambisa axes of Borno State. Meanwhile, another terrorist commander has indicated his desire to surrender to the troops. Nigerian troops...
Troops of Operation of Hadin Kai have in the last two weeks eliminated no fewer than 47 terrorists and rescued Mary Dauda, one of the school girls abducted in 2014 at Chibok in Borno. Maj-Gen Bernard Onyeuko, Director, Defence Media Operations, said this at the Defence Headquarters bi-weekly briefing...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Nigeria Army Troops of the 26 Task Force Brigade on Tuesday rescued one of the schoolgirls kidnapped from Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, in 2014 by Boko Haram terrorists. The Nigeria Army authority, confirmed the development on Wednesday in a tweet via its Twitter handle:...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt General Umar Farouk Yahaya has charged officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army to always discharge their duties and responsibilities with all seriousness, commitment, determination and professionalism in protecting the integrity of the country and ensuring peace...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri – Nigerian Army troops of 34 Brigade, in conjunction with operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) have dislodged gunmen from their training camp at Okporo in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo. The Army spokesperson, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in statement issued...
Nigerian troops have eliminated scores of suspected Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, terrorists in Taraba State. The ISWAP elements met their waterloo when they attacked troops on a military operation, at Tati village under Takum local government area of the State. But the Commanding Officer of 93...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya has reiterated his matching orders to troops of the Nigerian Army to intensify the elimination of bandits and terrorist from every part of the country. COAS Faruk gave the order on Tuesday shortly after...