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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Latest Politics, Legislature, Navy, Senate
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
From Fred Itua, Abuja The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Four former Service Chiefs and a former Director of Defence Intelligence as ambassador-designates following their nominations by President Muhammadu Buhari. This Senate urged the President to post the newly-confirmed ambassador-designates to neighbouring countries like Chad, Cameroon and Niger, where there is an ongoing insurgency war. […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Latest Politics, Navy, Presidency, South-East, Top Stories
Saturday, February 6th, 2021
0 From Okwe Obi, Abuja The Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development (CONEPD) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being unfair for excluding the South-East in the recent appointments of the federal Service Chiefs, describing it as an ‘injustice being done to the Igbo nation.” CONEPD National Coordinator Engr Zana Goni, in a statement, […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Navy, Top Stories
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
ON a day the newly-appointed service chiefs paid their first official visit to Borno State to assess the security situation, members of the Boko Haram sect invaded Chabal and some communities in Magumeri Local Government Area of the state, killed two policemen and abducted two others. The terrorists, it was gathered, also seized two operational […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Governors, Headlines, Navy, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
Don’t politicise security, Wike charges new service chiefs Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has commended president Buhari for appointing new service chiefs for the country even though the appointments came late. The governor, in a statement from the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, charged the new appointees to see their appointments as an […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Headlines, Navy
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
Chinelo Obogo; Chukwudi Nweje; Romanus Ugwu, Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Fred Itua, Abuja; Tony John, Port Harcourt;Noah Ebije, Kaduna; Geoffrey Anyanwu, Magnus Eze, Enugu and Eziomume Solomon, Nnewi. Reactions have continued to trail the appointment of new service chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari, with Afenifere, Middle Belt Forum and immediate past president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nina […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the immediate resignation of the Service Chiefs, and their retirement from service. Those involved are the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar. President Buhari […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Boko Haram, Latest Politics, National Politics, Navy
Friday, January 15th, 2021
From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja As the country marks the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Friday, the Presidency has declared that the activities of Boko Haram insurgents have been weakened compared to what obtained in 2015. This is even as it said that more than 2,403 criminals, including terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and criminals of other sorts, were […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Latest Politics, National Politics, Navy, Nigerian Police
Saturday, January 2nd, 2021
By Bayo Onanuga President Muhammadu Buhari, admitting the challenge of insecurity in the country on Friday spoke about his plans to rejig the Nigerian security architecture, to make it more proactive. He did not give a timeframe to accomplish this. He said his administration will “Re-energize and reorganize” the security apparatus and personnel of the […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines
Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
Molly Kilete, Abuja The Defence Headquarters(DHQ), said the Air Task Force of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has bombarded a logistics base belonging to the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) logistics base killing scores of their fighters in air strikes conducted at Tumbun Rego on the fringes of Lake Chad in Borno State. Coordinator Defence Media […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Sunday, November 8th, 2020
The Defence Headquarters says the Air Component of Operation Thunder Strike has eliminated several armed bandits in an air strike on Saturday in the forest at Kuzo area of Kaduna State. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Maj. John Enenche, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Enenche said the air attack was executed […]
