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Armed Forces, Army, Kaduna, Latest Politics, National Politics, State News
Thursday, January 28th, 2021
Army unleashes 300 female soldiers on bandits on deadly Kaduna-Abuja Expressway By Kazeem Ugbodaga The Nigerian Army has deployed 300 female soldiers to battle bandits and kidnappers on the deadly Kaduna-Abuja Expressway. The soldiers are from the Nigerian Army Women Corps. Governor Nasir El-Rufai received the female soldiers in Kaduna State on Wednesday. According to […]
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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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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Latest Politics, National Politics, Navy, Top Stories
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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Armed Forces, Army, Headlines, Latest Politics
Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
By Muhaimin Olowoporoku An army court-martial sitting in Maiduguri has found Trooper Azunna Maduabuchi guilty of killing his colleague and thus sentenced him to death by firing squad. Trooper Maduabuchi in July 2020, murdered Lieutenant Babakaka Ngorgi, the adjutant of his unit for refusing to grant him a welfare pass. He shot Ngorgi from close […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Saturday, January 2nd, 2021
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says the Nigerian army will shame and disgrace the Boko Haram and the Islamic States for West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists in 2021. Buratai gave the assurance at a sit-out night to usher in the 2021 New Year at the TY Buratai Institute for War and Peace, […]
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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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#EndSars, Armed Forces, Army, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Thursday, November 19th, 2020
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, has insisted that the Nigerian Army acted professionally and kept to the rules of engagement in the handling the #ENDSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos on October 20, 2020. He disclosed this while reacting to a report by CNN on Wednesday, which revealed how soldiers of […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Armed Forces, Army, General Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, November 2nd, 2020
• Five Abductors Killed In Gun Battle With Kidnappers • Defence Headquarters Keeps Mum Over Operation The Multinational Joint Task Force(MNJTF) played a significant role in yesterday’s rescue of Philip Walton from his abductors, by a Naval Special Warfare group in the United States, better known as SEAL Team Six. Walton, a 27-year-old American, was […]
