*`Explosives made in US, some components from Brazil’ By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja, Luka Binniyat, Kaduna In what is apparently a fallout of the suicide bombings of a church in the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), yesterday, removed two top military officials from their posts. The DHQ announced […]
BY KINGSLEY OMONOBI ABUJA — IN the wake of terrorists attacks on army cantonments in parts of the country, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika, has directed that all civilians and non-military personnel residing in all army barracks be flushed out. His words: “All illegal civilians and those above 18 years should […]
• 30 others injured, vehicles destroyed IT was presumed an unlikely victim of bombing. It was supposed to be a security hub that is immune to the recurrent violence outside it. Yet suicide bombers Sunday penetrated the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji in Kaduna and attacked the St. Andrews Military Protestant Church. […]
(Reuters) – A car bomb was detonated at a church inside military barracks in Jaji in Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Sunday, two military sources said. “A car drove into the church premises … then detonated the bomb,” one of the military officers told Reuters, asking not to be named. The National Emergency Agency confirmed there […]
-Punch Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika | credits: Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, has said inter-agency collaboration helped security agencies to foil a terror attack in the country recently. The COAS, who stated that the Joint Task Force thwarted the planned attack, did not, however, elaborate on the incident. Speaking […]
THE international wired service, Reuters, on Tuesday, said it has withdrawn the video purporting to have shown Nigerian troops shooting some captured villains after discovering it was fake. A news item posted on the site of the news agency said it had since discovered that the video was staged. The Nigerian Army had, on […]
The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Dele Ezeoba, on Saturday said the Nigerian Navy had intercepted 17 vessels in the Niger-Delta which indulged in illegal maritime activities. Ezeoba said this in Port Harcourt while briefing newsmen at the end of a joint sea military exercise code-named “Operation FARAUTA” which means hunting. He said 17 […]
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno, Operation Restore Order, said yesterday it had killed the man suspected to have shot dead Major Gen. Muhammadu Shuwa, 79, a civil war hero, who was last month shot dead in his home in Maiduguri. The task force, in statement, said: “In a sustained follow up operations […]
Amnesty International has released its latest report on the atrocities carried out by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, as well as human rights violations perpetrated by Nigerian security forces in response. The report titled, ‘Nigeria: Trapped in the cycle of violence’, was presented to the media, in Abuja, on Wednesday. Secretary-General of AI, Salil Shetty, […]
By EGUFE YAFUGBORHI, Port-Harcourt The Joint Taskforce (JTF), 2 Brigade, Port Harcourt, has vowed to bring to book, perpetrators of the alleged shooting of a commercial bus at the Agip Roundabout in Port Harcourt which has left one of two affected victims battling for her life with a bullet in the head. Witnesses account had, […]
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