Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, has said that the troops of the 7 Brigade liberated Gudumbali town in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State on Friday. Usman said the troops killed a large number of Boko Haram insurgents and destroyed […]
Nigeria is going to establish a domestic weapons factory in an effort to cut its dependence on imported arms, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. The defence ministry had been told to develop plans for a “modest military industrial complex,” the president, who came to power in May, said Nigeria has been battling the militant Islamist […]
ADVERTISEMENT The authorities of the Nigerian military have vowed to track down a group of gunmen who killed five security personnel at Nembe Jetty, Bayelsa State, on Friday. The murdered security operatives comprised four soldiers and a policeman, with another policeman said to be missing. ADVERTISEMENT The Acting Spokesman for […]
y Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief President Muhammadu Buhari has painted a worrisome picture of the on-going war against Boko Haram , saying that there was not enough fire power to support ground troops to decimate the terrorists. He spoke on Good Morning Nigeria, a programme of the Nigerian Television Authority, Monday, in Abuja. He […]
Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Tukur Buratai Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have burnt down houses, including the family home of the Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Tukur Buratai, in his village in Borno State. At least, two people were killed and eight injured during the attack on Buratai village on Tuesday, sources […]
From Segun Olatunji, Abeokuta An Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment a retired soldier, Alabi Ibrahim for raping and infecting his 10-year-old step-daughter with the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV). Ibrahim, 63 had in 2012 committed the crime in his home where he lived with both the victim and her […]
Buhari names new service chiefs, NSA President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday approved the appointments of new service chiefs and National Security Adviser for the country. Their appointments, which was contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, followed Buhari’s sacking of the former occupants of […]
President still compiling shopping list for G7 leaders FROM JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, ABUJA President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday described as shameful for Nigeria whose military might helped end the wars in Burma, Zaire , Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan, now rely on its neighbours to end the insurgency in the North-easten part of the country. This is […]
Following the relocation of Boko Haram detainees to the Ekwulobia Prisons in Anambra State, the military have taken over the security of the facility. SUNDAY PUNCH investigations showed that security operations in the Federal Government facility are no longer the exclusive preserve of the officials of the Nigeria Prison Service. The development, sources told our […]
THE Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah, on Monday in Abuja, said the Nigerian Army was not owing allowances of troops involved in the ongoing counter-terrorism operations in the North-East Minimah, represented by Major General Donald Oji, the Army Chief of Civil Military Affairs, said this while briefing newsmen on the activities lined […]
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