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FG asks airforce to patrol borders

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

THE Federal Government has tasked the Nigerian Airforce with additional responsibility of patrolling and surveilling the country’s border. The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mohammed Umar, who announced this on Wednesday while declaring open a two-day retreat for unit commanders and directors, said already, the operational bases were active with over 65 per cent […]

Picture: Tears as man brutalised by soldiers is buried

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, August 12th, 2012

Adewale Olupitan-Hassan, who died after being allegedly brutalised by soldiers attached to the Flag Staff House, Force Road, Lagos, has been buried. At a prayer session held at his Opebi residence before his remains were interred at the Atan Cemetery, Lagos, on Saturday, friends, associates and family members paid tribute to the retired director of […]

Kogi: Okene residents accuse soldiers of brutality

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines, Kogi, State News Sunday, August 12th, 2012

Residents of Okene in Kogi State on Sunday alleged that soldiers deployed to maintain peace, law and order in the area were brutalising them. They also alleged that some of them had been maimed and some of their belongings destroyed by the soldiers. Some of the complainants said they came out for their legitimate businesses […]

JTF kills 20 suspected terrorists in Borno

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Borno, Headlines, State News Sunday, August 12th, 2012

Joint Task Force said on Sunday it killed 20 suspected Boko Haram members in a shootout as they raided an Islamist hideout in Maiduguri. One soldier was also killed in the attack. Security forces had intelligence that some members of the group were holding a gathering at a location in Maiduguri, said Colonel Victor Ebhaleme, […]

Soldiers, others killed in fresh Kogi attack

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines, Kogi, State News Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

WHILE the Deeper Life Bible Church was still counting its heavy losses to the ruthless Monday night attack on its church in Otite, Okene, Kogi State, four persons again died in an attack on the Central Mosque in the city on Tuesday. Reports from Kogi on Tuesday indicated that the death toll in the attack […]

Insecurity: Army deploys soldiers in 33 states – GOC

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Latest Politics, State News Monday, August 6th, 2012

AT least, 33 out of the 36 states of the federation have men of the Nigerian Army complementing the police, in order to protect the citizens. The statistics was given on Monday by the General Officer Commanding the Second Mechanised Division, Ibadan, Major-General Muhammad Abubakar, in Osun State. Abubakar made the declaration during the launch […]

Suicide bomber’s attack in Damaturu checkpoint kills eight

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines, State News, Yobe Monday, August 6th, 2012

A suicide car bomber on Sunday attacked a military checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Damaturu, killing six soldiers and two civilians, police said. Suspicion will fall on Islamist sect Boko Haram, which is waging an insurgency against President Goodluck Jonathan’s government across the north with the aim of carving out an Islamic state in […]

NNP’s statement on the brutalization of its columnist by soldiers

Posted by admin Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Armed Forces, Columnists, Headlines, NNP News, Oyo, State News Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

By New Nigerian Politics New Nigerian Politics categorically and unreservedly condemns the unprovoked brutalization of one of its columnists, Mr. Akintokunbo Adejumo, on July 22, 2012 in Ibadan, Oyo State by six miscreants of the Nigerian army attached to the PHCN building on Ring Road. This uncivilized, cowardly and sordid act visited on an innocent […]

Army rescues 300 human trafficking victims

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines Monday, July 30th, 2012

Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Azubuike Ihejirika | credits: The Kogi State Army Commandant of Quick Respond Group Team, Maj. Gen. Alphonsus Chukwu, on Sunday said the team rescued no fewer than 300 human trafficking victims. Speaking during a media briefing in Lokoja, he said the victims, who came from Benue State, were rescued along […]

NNP columnist brutalized by errant soldiers in Ibadan

Posted by admin Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Armed Forces, Columnists, Headlines, Oyo, State News Sunday, July 29th, 2012

What looked like a normal day in Ibadan, Oyo State, turned out to be a nightmare in the early hours of 22nd of July 2012 at around 2.30am when about six soldiers of the Nigeria Army in uniform attached to the PHCN Capital Building at Ring Road Ibadan went berserk on an unprovoked savage […]