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Extra-judicial killings in the North: We didn’t do it, JTF tells Elders

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

By NDAHI MARAMA THE Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State Operation Restore Order took on Northern Elders, yesterday, over the claim that the military outfit, raised to curb insurgency, engaged in extra-judicial killings. The JTF denied the allegation as well as claims of genocide, arson, illegal arrest and detention made against it. It said […]

Army Moves against Terrorism (Two years late)

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Latest Politics Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

Governor Theodore Orji By Emmanuel Ugwu The high command of the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army has intensified capacity building of officers to adequately equip them to tackle the Boko Haram menace and other contemporary security challenges facing the nation. To further ensure a successful triumph over terrorism the military is […]

Oil theft: Navy, EFCC hand over seized vessels to firm

Posted by admin Armed Forces, EFCC Politics Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

The Nigerian Navy, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, have transferred two vessels, MT Beskid and MT Hope, impounded for oil theft to an indigenous firm, Fenix Impex Nig. Ltd. Our correspondent gathered that the ships were handed over on Wednesday to the firm by the Flag Officer Commanding, […]

Jonathan commissions first locally-made warship by Nigerian Navy engineers

Posted by admin Armed Forces, General Politics, Top Stories Thursday, May 31st, 2012

LAGOS — History will be made tomorrow when President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan commissions the first locally made warship, NNS ANDONI, constructed by Nigerian Navy engineers. The commissioning ceremony will take place at the Nigerian Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island, Lagos. The 31m Nigerian Navy Seaward Defence Boat (SDB) was conceived as a research and development project […]

Picture: Army court-martials 2 colonels, 12 others for alleged misconduct

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines Monday, May 28th, 2012

Jos — The Nigerian Army, Monday, began the court-martial of 14 soldiers serving in Special Task Forces in Maiduguri, Jos and Bauchi for alleged misconduct. The accused included two Colonels, a Master Warrant Officer, seven Lance Corporals and four Privates. The GOC, 3 Armoured Division, Maj. Gen Jack Nwaogbo, while inaugurating the court at the […]

Jonathan denies complicity in alleged N155bn oil block scam

Posted by admin Armed Forces, National Politics, Top Stories Monday, May 28th, 2012

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, denied his alleged complicity in a N155 billion oil block scandal allegedly involving Shell, ENI subsidiaries in Nigeria, a Nigerian oil firm and a former Petroleum Minister, Mr Dan Etete. The President who had kept mum since an online news medium, Premium Times, last week, disclosed […]

Naval Officers’ Brutality – By Dr. Phiilip Ikomi

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Philip Ikomi Thursday, May 24th, 2012

By Dr. Philip Ikomi | NNP | May 24, 2012 – This title was chosen because the Naval officials brutalized the traffic officers in question in the course of the discharge of their duties in Ogun State. A lot of our illiterate and literate Nigerian citizens seem to think that the armed forces and the […]

JTF destroys vessel with 600,000 litres of stolen diesel in Bayelsa

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Niger Delta Thursday, May 24th, 2012

By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa – The Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, has intercepted another vessel loaded with 600,000 litres of allegedly stolen crude oil in the creek of Akassa, in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Also, 18 suspects on board the oil vessel, marked MV Tamuno […]

Armed Forces ready for any crisis – Minister

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines Friday, May 18th, 2012

ABUJA—Defence Minister, Dr. Bello Mohammed, said, yesterday, that the Armed Forces were in a state of combat readiness needed to surmount all issues of insecurity, internal or external. He said government has ensured this by funding the requirements of the different arms of the military. Soldiers operating an armour tank during Combat Arms Training Week […]

Soldier shoots police corporal in Aba during argument

Posted by admin Abia, Armed Forces, State News Monday, May 14th, 2012

An army captain has allegedly shot and wounded a police corporal while another sustained bruises over an argument. The incident happened in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State. Daily Sun gathered that one Corporal Sunday Adamu of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Base 4, Mgboko, near Aba, who was in mufti had gone to a […]