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Africa & World Politics, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Monday, August 25th, 2014
Cameroonian officials have confirmed that at least 480 Nigerian soldiers are now in the protective custody of the neighboring country’s gendarmes after they crossed into Cameroon earlier today to escape from Boko Haram insurgents who have launched a massive offensive. Cameroonian gendarmes had disarmed the Nigerian soldiers, officials from the West African nation told a correspondent of […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
By Our Reporter on August 12, 2014 · COVER The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, on Tuesday reiterated the military would not cede any part of the country to insurgents. Olukolade made this known in Abuja when he reacted to the claim that terrorists […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines
Wednesday, August 6th, 2014
0 By MOLLY KILETE. Abuja on August 6, 2014 · COVER Retired armed forces personnel yesterday staged a peaceful protest in Abuja over the non-payment of their pension by the Federal Government from 2010 till date. The retired soldiers carrying placards with various inscriptions were however prevented from having access into the presidential villa […]
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Armed Forces, Latest Politics
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
BY Kingsley Omonobi & Caleb Ayansina ABUJA — The Federal Government, yesterday, said it did not believe that details of the accusations of extra-judicial killings leveled against Nigerian military by Amnesty International had been properly verified. The report released, Monday, by Amnesty International, accused Nigerian troops of extra-judicial killings of over 600 persons in the […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines
Thursday, July 24th, 2014
Bayo Olupohunda | credits: File copy To begin this piece, one fact has become undeniable. Our country is at war. According to the latest Human Rights Watch report, Boko Haram has killed 2, 053 Nigerians in the North-East in six months! The Nigerian military is at the forefront of the war on terror but […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines
Thursday, July 24th, 2014
MEN of the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) led by the Airport Commandant, Group Captain Victor Ajiboye, arrested and sealed up various shops at the terminal of both the arrival and departure halls of the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, yesterday. The sealing off of the business premises and the subsequent arrest […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines
Friday, July 11th, 2014
(LAGOS) The Nigerian Army on Thursday in Lagos said it would continue to ensure a cordial relationship with civilians in the state. Lt. Col. Omale Ochaguba, the spokesman, 81 Div. Nigerian Army, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) against the backdrop of the recent attack on Lagos State Government-owned luxury buses by soldiers. NAN […]
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American Politics, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
Shekau and Obama When Washington imposed sanctions in June 2012 on Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, he dismissed it as an empty gesture. Two years later, Shekau’s skepticism appears well founded: his Islamic militant group is now the biggest security threat to Africa’s top oil producer, is richer than ever, more violent and its abductions […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Monday, June 23rd, 2014
General Yakubu Usman (rtd) was the chairman of the Northern States Governors’ Forum committee on insecurity. The retired general who contested the Bauchi South Senatorial seat in 2011 and lost in this interview speaks on the ongoing insurgency in the north saying it is not the presumed job of the military to confront the insurgents. […]
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Armed Forces, House, Kaduna, Legislature, State News
Monday, June 23rd, 2014
BY CHARLES KUMOLU NOBEL laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, wants President Goodluck Jonathan to tell Nigerians who authorised the military to prevent some governors of the All Progressives Congress,APC, from attending the final governorship election campaign in Ekiti State, describing the action of the army as unconstitutional. He also called on the National Assembly to set […]
