The stalled Federal Account Allocation Committee meeting has resulted in a delay in the payment of the salaries of members of the military, paramilitary organisations, and state and local government employees. THE PUNCHgathered that the October salaries of all government workers under the integrated payroll system were yet to be paid. The salaries of the […]
The authorities, yesterday, shed more light on the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plane that crash landed in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Friday, saying the aircraft landed 1,100 meters from the runway. They insisted that the two pilots of the plane, one of six involved in the 2011 Staff Continuity Training Exercise and Sports Week […]
A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plane has crashed in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The L-39 trainer jet was on a routine training exercise from the 303 Training School in Kano when it crashed about 50 metres away from Uyo airport. However, no life was lost in the incident, which happened at 7:15 p.m. on Friday. […]
The Nigerian Army said it has employed war dogs to detect narcotics and explosives as well as locate dead and decomposing human tissues. Speaking while declaring open the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police training week in Abuja, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika, also disclosed that the dogs would be trained […]
ABUJA— Commander of a military task-force in Borno State, Colonel Benjamin Ahanotu, who arrested the former leader of the Boko Haram sect, Mohammed Yusuf, in 2009 and handed him over to the police, Monday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that he was murdered by the police. Col. Ahanotu testified before the trial […]
Two suspected Boko Haram members were on Wednesday shot dead by soldier while attempting to gun down a tea seller in Zannari, Maiduguri. The Borno State Police Commissioner, Mr Simeon Midenda, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri that the incident happened in the evening. Midenda said the suspects had gone to the […]
A combined special squad of the Nigeria Police Force and the Intelligence Unit of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) has commenced investigations into the resurgence of a militant group involved in series of kidnapping and sea-piracy in Bayelsa State. According to checks, the investigations were ordered following intelligence reports that a prominent member of […]
It’s contradictory, says defence FORMER Commander of the 33 Artillery Brigade in Bauchi, Brig.-Gen. Muraina Raji, who was standing trial before a Special Court Martial at the 3 Armoured Division, Jos for his alleged role in the escape of two high profile Boko Haram suspects, has been discharged and acquitted of all the three […]
FORMER Brigade Commander of the 33 Artillery Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Muraina Raji, who is to lose three months in seniority over the escape of two Boko Haram suspects from the Wetland Detention Facility in Bauchi, has rejected the verdict. Raji was convicted for conduct prejudicial to service discipline contrary to section 103 (1) of the […]
The decision to release Boko Haram co-founder, Aliyu Tishau, was taken by all security agencies, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petirin, said yesterday. The CDS’ pronouncement ended the controversy trailing Tishau’s release even as the Police and Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) traded blames. Earlier in the week, the Presidency threatened […]
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