The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Mr Matthias Schmale, has called for adequate protection for aid workers in the North East. Schmale made the call while reacting to the Thursday killing of an aid worker by a soldier , who ran amok in Damboa, Borno. ”The killing of a...
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The 243 Recce Battalion Barracks Ibereko, Badagry, Lagos State on Tuesday decorated 51 newly promoted soldiers from the rank of private to Warrant Officers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that three soldiers were promoted from the rank of Private to Lance Corporal while 27 were promoted from...
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...
Gunmen have killed no fewer than four soldiers and one civilian at Umunze in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State. A source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka that the incident took place around Zenith Bank axis of Umunze at about 12.40 p.m on...
A man who appeared to be mentally challenged laid out bundles of Naira from his pocket on the floor when confronted by some soldiers. In a video shared online, the soldiers who revealed that they saw him with a cutlass while going through some waste items, explicitly told him...
Zamfara State Police Command has arrested a former soldier and notorious bandit who also supplies arms to terrorists in the northwestern state. The suspect, Sa’idu Lawal, is said to have been terrorising communities in Niger, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, and Kaduna states. Sa’idu Lawal, a native of Zamfara State, voluntarily...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree to increase the headcount of the country’s army, as Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine enters its seventh month. Russia’s army will have over two million people, including 1.15 million servicemen, starting January next year, according to the decree published on...
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed military authorities to flush out all those elements in the army with criminal tendencies. The president gave the directive in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu while reacting to the cold-blooded murder of a Yobe State-based Islamic...
Nearly 1,000 Cameroonian Army recruits undergoing training at a military academy have been dismissed over corruption allegations. The country’s Minister of Defence, Joseph Beti Assomo, said in a circular made public on Friday. Beti Assomo said the new 2022 recruits who were in full training had applied to join...
Forty-two Malian soldiers died in a sophisticated weekend attack by suspected terrorists using drones and artillery, authorities said Wednesday, the latest violent incident to rock the troubled Sahel country. The toll is one of the bloodiest in Mali’s decade-long insurgency, which has spread from the north of the country...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Nigeria Army, 8 Division on Friday commenced an investigation into the death of a police officer in an unfortunate incident that occurred between some soldiers and policemen around Ojo, Lagos State. The Division’s spokesman, Maj. Olaniyi Osoba, who expressed regret over the death...
The Nigerian Army has confirmed the death of three soldiers during the attack on troops of 7 Guards Battalion on Sunday by suspected terrorists in Bwari axis of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Contrary to conflicting media reports of casualties, the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Guards Brigade, Capt....
The President Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled his official residence. On Saturday, thousands of protesters stormed the home as they continued their demand for his resignation. The President was hurriedly transported to the Army headquarters hours before the invasion. Sri Lankan military personnel joined the demonstrators who broke police barricades...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned Thursday’s attack in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, describing it as a direct assault on Nigeria which will not be allowed to go unpunished. President Buhari paid tributes to the gallant men of the security forces who...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked a mining site in Niger State and reportedly killed security agents, civilians, and kidnapped three Chinese nationals. The attack was said to have occurred on Wednesday afternoon in Ajata, Aboki in Gurmana ward of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. The...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Dr Mbang Akpama, an indigen of Nko Community in Yakurr LGA of Cross River State has lamented the ordeal in which the people of his community have being passing through in the hands of the military following a clash with Onyedama, a neighboring community....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Theater Commander, JTF Operation Hadin Kai, Theater Command Headquarters, Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri, Major General Chris G. Musa has inaugurated the 4th Special Court Martials to trial of some of the accused persons that were convicted and awarded various punishments in accordance with provisions...
A total of 227 soldiers involved in the fight against insurgency within the North East of Nigeria have been brought before a General and Special Court Martial set up by the military, for various cases of misconduct. The Theater Commander of Operation Hadin Kai, Major General Christopher Musa disclosed...
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has ordered the immediate retirement of ‘disgruntled’ officers and men of the Nigerian military who have been for wanting in unethical behaviours and acts of gross misconduct, PRNigeria has reported It also directed the leadership of the Nigerian Army, Navy and Air Force, to ‘sack’...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya has implored disengaged soldiers to fulfil their commitment in defending the territorial integrity of Nigeria as espoused in their oath of allegiance. He stated this during a valedictory buffet organised in honour of year...