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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
THE Nigerian Army, on Thursday, in Abuja, donated vehicle-stoppers to churches and mosques as part of measures to protect places of worship against terrorist attacks. Major-General Bitus Kwaji, Army Chief of Civil Military Affairs, while handing over the devices to some leaders of churches and mosques, said that the gesture was part of the army’s […]
PRESIDENT and chairman of the governing council of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators of Nigeria, Chief Afe Babalola, has traced the myriad of problems facing Nigeria to what he described as the military constitution currently operating in the country. Afe Babalola said this while speaking at the annual presidential dinner and presentation of awards and certificates […]
By Muhammad Ajah | Abuja, Nigeria | July 4, 2012 – Whatever happens in Nigeria, the military should NEVER allow religious sentiments or extremism to infiltrate the barracks. Soldiers and security personnel are such as physical security from God for mankind on earth. That is why they should never allow religion to play a decisive […]
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika, on Tuesday in Jaji, Kaduna State, said that Nigerians should forget about any talk that the country would break up as the army would continue to fight to keep it together. Ihejirika said this at the parley with retired officers and reunion of Army Infantry Corps as […]
The House of Representatives Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream)/Navy has directed the Nigerian Navy to hand over the French ship, MT Vannessa, which was impounded on June 9 for allegedly being in possession of 8.5 million barrels of the country’s crude oil, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Announcing the decision of the […]
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