Nigerian Army deploys 300 US-trained elite troops in the north

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 […]

Nigeria’s intelligence machinery has not failed – Army chief (Tell it to the birds)

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 […]

Naval officer kills girlfriend in Lagos

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 […]

JTF recovers dangerous weapons on Sallah day in Maiduguri

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 […]

JTF recovers 1,000 firearms in Maiduguri arms mop-up

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 […]

FG, states conflict delays soldiers, others’ salaries

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 […]

`How Air Force pilots survived plane crash in Akwa Ibom’

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 […]

NAF plane crashes in Uyo

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. […]

Army employs war dogs (In the midst of human unemployment)

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 […]

How Boko Haram leader was killed, Army chief tells court

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 […]

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