A prosecution witness in the on-going trial of the six police officers suspected to have killed the leader of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, Mohammed Yusuf, Colonel Benjamin Ahamotu yesterday told the Federal High Court that killing of members of the sect was a legitimate duty. Ahamotu who led the army troop that arrested Yusuf […]
By Dayo Johnson and Gabriel Enogholase No fewer than 14 persons including three soldiers were killed in two separate accidents yesterday. The soldiers were trapped and burnt to death in an auto crash at Aiyegunle, Oka-Akoko, near Owo, Ondo State alongside five students of a military school and two others. In the other accident which […]
The Army High Command yesterday disclosed that the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic fundamentalists group killed 140 people in 138 attacks carried out between the year 2010 and 2011. This is coming at a time the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, said that the sect was a product of bad governance and […]
THERE was security alert in the Niger Delta, on Monday, following a threat by a group of ex-militants to bomb oil facilities in the region in response to the Federal Government’s alleged failure to address some issues that border on their welfare. Heavily armed security agents posted to oil facilities were positioned to ward off […]
BY VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG & NAOMI MGBAKOR LAGOS — ARMED soldiers, yesterday, took over most of the nation’s power stations, including Egbin Power Station, as Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, workers threatened to withdraw their services. This came as the State Security Service, SSS, invited the President and General Secretary of the National Union of […]
Crack Nigerian Army commandos, who just concluded a special training in the United States, have been deployed in the North to combat the terrorist attacks, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. Our correspondents gathered that the commandos were part of the personnel of the Nigeria Army who left the country for a crack training programme on counter […]
BY CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI— The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, has debunked the belief in some quarters that the country’s intelligence machinery was a failure and inefficient. Ihejirika, who stated this while flagging off this year’s Army Chaplains Training Week in Owerri, however, promised that security men would continue to enhance […]
By Ifeanyi Okolie LAGOS — Tragedy struck, Saturday, at the Nigerian Navy Base, Ojo, Lagos State, when a Naval officer stabbed his girl friend to death. The officer, identified simply as Harry, was said to have engaged his girl friend, Itoya, who also is a naval personnel, in a fight over claims of infidelity. Vanguard […]
Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State has said that two improvised devices and dangerous weapons were discovered in Maiduguri during the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. Briefing newsmen at the 21 armoured brigade barrack in Maiduguri on Monday, Mohammed said the devices were hidden in a container in an uncompleted stadium opposite Kano […]
KANO (AFP) – Soldiers from a special military unit deployed to end the violence in the city of Maiduguri on Tuesday launched a house-to-house search for weapons following an October 31 deadline for residents to turn in weapons. A military unit’s spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, said they have recovered at least 1,000 firearms in […]
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