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Armed Forces, Election 2015, Elections, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Friday, March 27th, 2015
Soldiers in a show of strength on Oyemekun Road in Akure, Ondo State … on Thursday. | credits: Goke Famadewa Preparations for tomorrow’s presidential and National Assembly elections heightened across the states and the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday with more sensitive and non-sensitive electoral materials sent to Local Government Areas by state offices of […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
A coordinated attack is set to be carried out by the military to liberate Gwoza, Borno State, from Boko Haram captivity as the defence authorities have deployed four attack helicopters and two air force fighter jets to flush out the terrorists in the areas. A reliable source in the military told our correspondent on Thursday […]
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Armed Forces, Latest Politics, National Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Top Stories
Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday warned against handing over the reins of government to the military. Obasanjo said the speculation that the government was planning an Interim Government had been substituted by speculations that President Goodluck Jonathan was plotting to hand over to the military. He said that doing so […]
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Africa & World Politics, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, General Politics, Headlines, Top Stories
Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Kenneth Minimah Nigeria is bearing the financial burden of the operations by multinational forces against Boko Haram insurgents, findings by The PUNCH on Sunday have revealed. The troops from Nigeria’s neighbours – Chad and Niger – it was learnt in Abuja, receive N146.25m monthly as pocket and feeding allowances […]
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Adamawa, Africa & World Politics, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
Chadian and Nigerien troops fighting Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East are reportedly begging their Nigerian counterparts to take over towns recaptured from the sect. Nigerian authorities had announced that troops had recaptured all towns occupied by members of the terrorist group in Adamawa and Yobe states, remaining Borno, the last of the three north-eastern […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
The Nigerian Army has launched a major operation to liberate the strategic town of Bama, Borno State from Boko Haram insurgents. Investigation revealed on Tuesday that deployment of ground forces and equipment was preceded by days of targeted aerial operations in Bama and its environs. An intelligence source, who made this known, said that the […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Saturday, March 7th, 2015
Boko Haram fighters are preparing in mass at their headquarters in the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza, Maiduguri, Borno State for a showdown with Multinational Joint Task Force, residents and an intelligence officer told The Associated Press. A woman, who was trapped in the town since it was seized in July, 2014 told her daughter […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Nigerian army Chief, Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah, has visited Baga town in Borno State, which has just been recaptured from Boko Haram, reiterating that the militants will be wiped out of Nigeria’s northeast in the next few weeks. Chief Of Army Staff, Kenneth Minimah Nigerian Army FB page Gen. Minimah arrived Maiduguri earlier in the […]
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Armed Forces, Articles, Boko Haram, Columnists, Joe Onwukeme, NNP Columnists
Sunday, February 22nd, 2015
By Joe Onwukeme | Enugu, Nigeria | Feb. 21, 2015 – In a statement at a conference issued by the Chief Of Defence Staff (CDS) Air Marshal Alex Badeh on 8th October, 2014, described “Fifth Columnists” as moles in Nigerian Armed Forces responsible for the conflicting stories that emanates from the military to the media […]
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American Politics, Armed Forces, Headlines
Thursday, February 19th, 2015
INTERNATIONAL response to last week’s postponement of Nigeria’s presidential and general election may have provoked serious worries and consideration of the option of targeted sanctions on certain government and security officials by the United States (US) government in Washington DC and other western capitals, Empowered Newswire reports. A White House spokesperson, Edward C. Price, had […]
