Maj.-Gen. Bamidele Alabi has taken office as the 41st General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division of the Nigerian Army in Kaduna. Acting Deputy Director, 1 Division Nigerian Army Public Relations Office, Lt-Col Musa Yahaya, stated on Wednesday that Alabi took office on Monday. “The newly-appointed General Officer Commanding 1 Division,...
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Col. Adebisi Onasanya, has resumed office as the Commander, Guards Brigade, Nigerian Army. This is contained in a statement issued by Capt Godfrey Abakpa, Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Guards Brigade, in Abuja on Tuesday. Abakpa said that the change of batton at the Guards Brigade, followed the recent...
The Nigerian Army (NA) has pledged to continue to do its best to secure Nigeria for peace to reign across the country. Maj-Gen. Mohammed Usman, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 2 Division, Nigerian Army, Ibadan gave the assurance on Friday during a courtesy visit to him by Defence Correspondents at...
The Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya says the Nigerian Army will hold periodic sensitization programmes against drugs abuse and other related issues in all its formations nationwide. Yahaya gave the assurance when he declared open a drug and narcotics control awareness conference, on Thursday in...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya has said that the Nigerian Army would utilise the support of the international entities to defeat the security threats confronting the country. Yahaya stated this in Bauchi on Monday during the inauguration of the 2023 Combat Arms Training Week, organised by...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigerian Army says it has commenced investigation into the viral video showing its personnel clad in military camouflage, maltreating some civilians at 2 Seasons Hotel and Resorts, Kaduna. The Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, condemned the assault in a statement issued on Sunday...
The Nigerian Army on Friday completed pre-deployment training for 197 troops for peace-keeping mission in Gambia. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the troops of the Nigerian Company 8 ECOWAS Mission in the Gambia (NIGCOY 8 ECOMIG), began the pre-deployment training on April 3. The training was...
Maj.-Gen. Olufemi Akinjobi, on Friday assumed duty as the 40th General Officer Commanding (GOC), 1 Division Nigerian Army, Kaduna. Akinjobi took over from Maj.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, who moved to Army Headquarters as Chief of Operations. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report that before his appointment as GOC, Akinjobi...
President of the Nigerian Army Officers Wives Association (NAOWA), Mrs Salamatu Yahaya, said in Kaduna on Saturday that the association had gone beyond charity. Inaugurating a NAOWA Centre for the 1 Division chapter of the association at Ribadu Cantonment, Yahaya said it had become an employer of labour and...
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The Nigerian Army says efforts are still on-going to rescue the newly-commissioned female officer, Lt. PP Johnson, abducted in Imo allegedly by the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB). Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, stated on Friday in Abuja that the female officer was abducted on Dec....
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.- Gen. Faruk Yahaya, says the Nigerian Army will set the stage for the conduct of a peaceful general elections in 2023. Yahaya gave the assurance while speaking with newsmen at the graduation of the Second Batch Trainees of the Nigerian Army Officers...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Army has announced the commencement of the recruitment of eligible Nigerians into the service for its 84 Regular Recruit Intake across the country. The Director, Army Headquarters Department of Recruitment Resettlement and Reserve, Brig.-Gen. Mustapha Garba, disclosed this in a statement issued...
Pandemonium broke out in Owode, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State when some men suspected to be soldiers of the Nigerian Army shot and killed two siblings for allegedly smuggling foreign rice. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the incident, which happened on Sunday, angered...
The 241 RECCE Battalion of the Nigerian Army on Saturday dismissed John Gabriel and Lance Cpl Adamu Gideon who allegedly killed an Islamic scholar, Sheikh Goni Aisami, in Yobe. Lt. Col. Ibrahim Osabo, Ag Commanding Officer of the Battalion, Nguru, Yobe, disclosed this to newsmen shortly after the suspects...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Army has said about 242 soldiers in the North-East and other theatres have applied for voluntary discharge which is not as a result of alleged corruption, poor service conditions and low morale as purported in the media. Army spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Onyema...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has reiterated the commitment of the Nigerian Army to develop its capacity for the local production and procurement of needed military equipment. Yahaya, represented by the Director of Training, Army Headquarters, Maj.-Gen. Oluyemi Olatoye, stated this at the Army War...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has reiterated the Nigerian Army’s commitment to prompt and adequate attention to the medical needs of wounded troops fighting insurgency in the North East. The COAS gave the assurance on Saturday, at the 2022 combined Eid-el-Kabir Luncheon organized for wounded...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Army (NA) has said it is set to commence the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Second Quarter Conference 2022 from Monday 13 to Friday 17 June, 2022 at the Army Headquarters Command Officers’ Mess 1, Asokoro, Abuja. The five-day conference will afford...