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Armed Forces, Army, Headlines
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Buhari unveils indigenous mine-resistant military vehicles By Sumaila Ogbaje resident Muhammadu Buhari, has inaugurated the first set of combat and light vehicles manufactured at the Nigerian Army Command Engineering Depot in partnership with Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) in Kaduna. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the vehicles were unveiled at the opening […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
By Sumaila Ogbaje The Defence Headquarters has disclosed that Operation Safe Corridor (OPSC) of Nigerian Military has handed over 86 Boko Haram child fighters to Borno State Rehabilitation Centre in Bulumkutu. The Acting Director of Defence Information, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Thursday, said that the fighters voluntarily surrendered to troops of Operation […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Headlines, Women Politics
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The Nigerian Air Force on Tuesday inducted 13 new fighter pilots including two women, Kafayat Sanni and Tolulope Arotile. They were trained in the United States and South Africa. The new pilots were inducted at the NAF Headquarters, Abuja, on Tuesday in a ceremony attended by the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Biafra, Imo, Latest Politics, Raw Politics, State News
Friday, October 4th, 2019
Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The Nigerian Army said on Thursday that its troops on Operation Mesa have arrested 27 members of the Indigenous People of Biafra and recovered an AK-47 rifle from one of them, Oliver Onyebunachi, in Imo State. According to the military, the IPOB members, who were 23 men and four women, were apprehended by troops […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Saturday, September 21st, 2019
Chukwudi Akasike,Port Harcourt An armourer to Boboski, a suspected notorious kidnapper and armed robber operating in the Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State and its environs, was reportedly gunned down on Thursday during a joint operation by the personnel of the Nigerian Army and the police. It was gathered that the security personnel had […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Headlines, Niger Delta, Rivers, State News
Thursday, September 19th, 2019
The Federation of Ogoni Women’s Association (FOWA) condemn, in the strongest terms, the rape of an Ogoni lady on Monday, September 16, 2019,in Nweol, Gokana local government area of Rivers State. The woman (we will protect her identity) was raped by three soldiers in Nweol, Gokana LGA right in the full glare of her family […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Headlines
Thursday, August 22nd, 2019
Adelani Adepegba, Olaleye Aluko and Justin Tyopuusu The police have re-arrested a kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala, popularly known as Wadume, two weeks after he escaped from the custody of the Intelligence Response Team while being taken to the state police headquarters in Jalingo, Taraba State. The fugitive was apprehended at his hideout at Layin Mai […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News, Taraba
Thursday, August 15th, 2019
By Emma Nnadozie, Crime Editor, Evelyn Usman & Ifeanyi Okolie BUJA-The Nigerian Army Captain who allegedly ordered soldiers on security check-point along the Ibi-Jalingo Expressway in Taraba State, to attack and kill police operatives attached to the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, has been identified. Vanguard gathered, yesterday, that police investigation […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, Navy, State News
Friday, August 2nd, 2019
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has demanded the setting up of a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate the reported burial of 1000 fallen Nigerian soldiers in a secret mass grave. He also wanted another panel of inquiry to determine the true state of the war against terror in the country. In a statement personally […]
