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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines
Saturday, December 6th, 2014
Over 70 terrorists killed *Fashola commends armed forcesBy Kingsley Omonobi & Bashir AdefakaTHE Nigerian Military, yesterday, put up a brave fight against hundreds of Boko Haram terrorists who attacked the dynamite-manufacturing town of Ashaka in Gombe State.Their plan was to overrun the town. After several hours of fighting, the Nigerian Army lost 10 soldiers while […]
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Armed Forces, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | Dec. 4, 2014 – I was recently a guest on a radio talk show. I was to discuss the Nigerian government’s inability, thus far, to contain and defeat the Boko Haram. At one point, the talk show host asked my opinion on the court marshal of mutinous Nigerian […]
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Adamawa, Armed Forces, Headlines, State News
Thursday, November 27th, 2014
By Umar Yusuf.No fewer than 35 people including five military personnel and a local hunter were reported to have been killed by a bomb explosion Thursday morning around Mararaba-Mubi area of Adamawa State.Eyewitness told Newsmen in Yola, the state capital that a combined team of the military and local hunters on routine patrol of the […]
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Adamawa, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Friday, November 14th, 2014
A combined team of local hunters, civilian JTF and the Nigerian soldiers on Wednesday night launched a fierce battle against Boko Haram insurgents and recaptured Mubi and its environ, which had earlier fell into the hands of the sect. Reports from Mubi also indicated that five Nigerian Armoured Personnel Carriers, seized by the dreaded Islamists […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Legislature, Senate
Friday, November 14th, 2014
Members of the Senate Committee on Defence grilled the Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, on Thursday over the increasing rate of insurgency in the North-East. Trouble started when the senators asked the Army chief to tell them the stage of the ongoing Boko Haram war but Minimah refused, insisting that he would […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Sunday, November 9th, 2014
The Nigerian Army, on Saturday, released 125 persons arrested for allegedly having links with the Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram. This latest release followed an earlier release of 42 persons who were investigated and found to have no link with the fundamentalist group. The 42 persons were released on Thursday to Governor Kashim Shettima of […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines
Saturday, November 1st, 2014
Nigeria Defence spokesman, Major General Chris Olukolade The military authorities have deployed more fighter aircraft to intensify the action to retake the commercial city of Mubi from Boko Haram insurgents. It was learnt in Abuja, on Friday, that members of the sect captured Mubi and adjourning villages from Nigerian troops, after carrying out a […]
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Africa & World Politics, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics
Saturday, November 1st, 2014
No fewer than 300 Nigerian soldiers fled to Cameroon when Boko Haram insurgents overran Mubi, the second largest city in Borno State from security forces on Wednesday, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. Cameroonian military sources told our correspondent that Nigerian soldiers fled the north-eastern part of Nigeria, where the insurgency launched by the sect was raging, […]
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Armed Forces, Latest Politics
Friday, October 17th, 2014
By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja Indications have emerged that the 97 soldiers including four (4) Lieutenant Colonels, a Major and four (4) Army Captains who are currently facing trial at a General Court Martial at the AHQ Garrison headquarters at the Mogadishu Cantonment, have been placed on half salaries. It was gathered that the decision of […]
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Africa & World Politics, Armed Forces, Latest Politics, National Politics
Sunday, October 12th, 2014
About 850 Nigerian soldiers on peacekeeping mission in Liberia are to be quarantined for 28 days when they return to the country in March 2015. There are two battalions of the Nigerian Army in Liberia. Investigations revealed that soldiers in one of the battalions were drawn from the 331 Artillery Regiment, Kontagora. A source said […]
