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Armed Forces, Army, Elections, Elections 2019, Latest Politics
Sunday, January 20th, 2019
he Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it believes elections will be conducted in all 36 states of the country with the help of the military. Rotimi Oyekanmi, the chief press secretary to the INEC Chairman, said this in an interview with Punch newspaper. The commission said the Nigerian Air Force helped during the continuous voter […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Boko Haram, Headlines, South-East
Sunday, January 13th, 2019
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has accused President Muhammadu Buahri and his party, the All Progressives Congress, of deceiving Nigerians with phony promises they do not intend to fulfil. The National Publicity Secretary of the group, Uche Achi-Okpaga, said this on Friday in an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH. The Ohanaeze’s spokesperson therefore predicted electoral […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Boko Haram, Headlines
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Molly Kilete, Abuja The Nigerian Army has said eight of its men were killed after Boko Haram terrorists attacked their location at Buni Gari village, in Yobe State, last weekend. Director, Army Public Relations Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, who made this known in an interview with Daily Sun, in Abuja, also said that the soldiers killed […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Headlines
Thursday, November 1st, 2018
The Nigerian Army said the body of Maj. General Idris Alkali, after his gruesome murder and exhumation from a shallow grave, was kept in a sack laden with heavy stones and then thrown into an abandoned well. The additional insight was given by Colonel Kayode Ogunsanya, deputy director, Army Public Relations, in a post on […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Headlines, Plateau, State News
Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
The Nigerian army has, Wednesday, discovered the body of her missing General, Retired Major General Idris Alkali who was killed and buried in a shallow grave at a place called “No man’s land” in Lafande community of Jos, the capital of Plateau state. In a statement by the leader of the search and rescue operation, […]
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Abuja (FCT), Armed Forces, Army, General Politics, Headlines, National Politics, State News
Sunday, October 28th, 2018
Molly Kilete, Abuja Soldiers from the Guards Brigade Nigerian Army have barricaded all the entry and exit routes into the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), over the planned one million march by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), in the nation’s capital. The soldiers have also created snap check points in various parts of the […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Latest Politics, Navy
Tuesday, September 25th, 2018
Chief of Army Staff Combined Second and Third Quartet Conference is currently underway at the Army Headquarters Command Officer mess, in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The conference is being attended by Principal Staff Officers from Defence and Army headquarters, operations Commanders, Commander Multi-National Joint Task Force, Njamena, Chad Commanders of Nigerian Army Training Institutions, Corps Commanders, […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Benue, Headlines, State News
Monday, August 20th, 2018
— 20th August 2018 Rose Ejembi, Makurdi Troops of the military operation code-named Operation WHIRL STROKE (OPWS) said it has killed 21 armed herdsmen along the Gbajimba-Akor-Tomata axis of Guma Local Government Area of Benue State in the last three weeks. Our Correspondent gathered that the herdsmen were killed in two separate operations on August […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Latest Politics
Saturday, August 18th, 2018
By Chimaobi Nwaiwu NNEWI-THE Nigerian Army yesterday said it will soon commence its annual training programme, the ‘Operation Python Dance III’, also known as Exercise Egwu Eke III, in South East States formations and units under 82 Division, Nigerian Army. This was disclosed yesterday by the General Officer Commanding, GOC, 82 Division Nigeria Army, Maj. Gen. Emmanuel […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Headlines
Tuesday, July 17th, 2018
The Nigerian Army has debunked alleged attack on soldiers and capturing of military vehicles by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. The Director Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen Texas Chukwu in a statement issued Monday declared that the report was not only untrue but misleading as the incident was […]
