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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines
Friday, July 27th, 2012
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 […]
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Armed Forces, Latest Politics
Monday, July 16th, 2012
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 […]
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Armed Forces, Articles, Columnists, muhammad Ajah, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
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 […]
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Armed Forces, Latest Politics
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
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 […]
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Armed Forces, EFCC Politics, House, Legislature
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
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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Armed Forces, Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News
Monday, June 25th, 2012
THE efforts of the Joint Task Force (JTF) codenamed “Operation Pulo Shield” in the Niger Delta to rid the region’s waterways of criminal elements paid off on Saturday as operatives of the special security force killed six suspected pirates in a gun battle that lasted for one and a half hours in Bayelsa State. Nigerian […]
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Africa & World Politics, Armed Forces, Latest Politics
Friday, June 15th, 2012
NIGERIAN and Pakistani army have agreed to partner on areas of professional interest, in furtherance of their long standing cordial relations. The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Azubike Ihejirika, who began a working visit to Pakistan on Thursday, discussed with his counterpart, Pakistan Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, on areas of mutual […]
