Federal Government has approved the setting up of central military commands in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. THE PUNCH learnt that the nation’s service chiefs took the decision after assessing the economic importance of the state to the country and the rising activities of cultists and pirates. Also, there has been a resurgence of violence in the […]
THE Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika, on Tuesday, in Abuja, said 2,000 soldiers were being trained in Jaji and Kachia on counter-terrorism to combat security challenges. Ihejirika stated this at the two-day Nigerian Army (NA) Transformation Stakeholders Conference, with the “theme: Enhancing the Implementation Strategy for Nigerian Army Transformation.” He said the […]
From DAVID MOLOMO Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Fleeing from the military heat in Maiduguri, Borno State, Boko Haram may have relocated to neighbouring Mubi in Adamawa State. But soldiers pursued the Islamist sect members to the town on Monday. In an encounter, 11 people were killed. They include seven militants, a police Inspector, a soldier […]
NAN – Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin, on Saturday in Abidjan, said the days of “Boko Haram’’ menace were numbered as security forces were decimating their network. Petinrin gave the assurance in an interview to newsmen on the sidelines of a meeting of ECOWAS Chiefs of Defence Staff held in […]
BY ABDULSALAM MUHAMMAD KANO—Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, Thursday, urged the new Commandant of the 3 Motorised Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Kano, Brigadier- General Iliyasu Abba, to check the excesses of the Joint Military Task Force, JMTF, deployed to Kano in the wake of January 20 bombing of the city by the Boko […]
Three members of Boko Haram yesterday met their waterloo in the hands of the Joint Task Force (JTF) soldiers while trying to burn another school in Maiduguri, Borno State. The Islamist sect has lately shifted focus on torching schools which the group said is in retaliation for the burning of Quranic Schools in the state […]
Authorities of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, codenamed “Operation Pulo Shield”, on Friday deployed local divers to retrieve the corpses of its officers, including a lieutenant colonel, who were shot dead on Thursday morning by suspected oil bunkerers, along Brass-Ogbia waterways, in Bayelsa State. Though, the identities of the slain officers […]
…MEND Claims Responsibility For Thursday’s Killings THe Joint Military Task Force (JTF), code named Operation Pulo Shield, has declared missing the Commander of the Brass Unit of its command and three others shot by suspected oil bunkers along the Brass-Ogbia waterways of Bayelsa State. JTF Media Coordinator, Lt. Col. Timothy Anthinga, confirmed to The Guardian […]
RESIDENTS of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital have called on members of the Boko Haram sect to consider the well-being of the common man in their activities, adding that it is the common man that suffers whenever there is an attack. A resident who spoke to Nigerian Tribune on condition of anonymity said he found […]
Two teenagers arrested by soldiers last Thursday for allegedly driving their Mercedes Benz car into the walls of a primary school near the complex of the Defence Industries Corporations of Nigeria, Kaduna, have been released. The teenagers, Lukman Mohammed, and Kabiru AbdulRahman, were released following entreaties made to the police and military authorities by their […]
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