Reuters And The Burden Of Proof

By: Zagazola Makama

The Reuters report, early December, 2022, accusing the Nigerian military of forcing the abortion of the pregnancies of over 10,000 Boko Haram female abductees since 2013 has raised...

Irabor backs review of military laws, unveils book in Abuja

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, on Thursday expressed support for calls to review the Armed Forces Act to make it more professional and...

Insurgency: UN ready to provide humanitarian response to vulnerable communities

By: Zagazola Makama 

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has expressed UN readiness in providing...

Polls: Police to deploy 300,000 personnel to 176,846 polling units nationwide

Zagazola Makama

The Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali, says over 300,000 police officers and men have been mobilised for deployment nationwide to...

Nigerian Army reacts to killing of soldier by Policeman in Lagos

The Nigerian Army on Thursday reacted to the alleged killing of a Soldier by a Policeman on Wednesday in Lagos State.

The reaction is contained in a statement signed by...

Protests rock Ibadan over naira, fuel scarcity

Protesters, in their thousands, on Wednesday, blocked major roads within Ibadan metropolis over the scarcity of fuel, new naira notes and the rejection of the old notes by...

Police neutralise 2 terrorists, rescue kidnapped victim in Katsina

 Police operatives in Katsina State have neutralized two terrorists and rescued a kidnapped victim while repelling attack on two communities.

The command’s Public...

Troops nutrialised 8 Boko Haram in Banki, recover weapons 
By: Zagazola Makama 
Troops of 152 Battalion Banki of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), have neutralised eight Boko Haram terrorists in Banki, in Bama local government area of Borno State....

Nigeria military is overstretched as Armed Forces arrest 492 vessels in 8 years–Magashi

The Minister of Defence, retired Gen. Bashir Magashi has said that the Nigeria Armed Forces is overburdened because of inadequate manpower and numerous security...

Theartre Commander OPHD applauds 7 Division's proactiveness in sustaining operational successes in NE

 By: Zagazola Makama 

The Theatre Commander (TC) Joint Task Force North East Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) Major General...

Sector 3 Commander urges troops to remain focused, resilient and avoid being distracted 

By: Zagazola Makama

The Commander Sector 3 Operation HADIN KAI, Major General Abdulsalami Abubakar has charged the...

Armed forces will never be part of plot to truncate democracy – DHQ

 The Defence Headquarters has dismissed as malicious propaganda, the report peddled by some unscrupulous elements of plot by some military officers to disrupt the forthcoming...

Terrorists ambush Niger soldiers, kill 10, injured 13 and 16 missing 

By: Zagazola Makama

No fewer than 10 Nigeriene soldiers

died in an ambush by a group of 'armed terrorists' in southwestern Niger, close to the border of...

Military neutralizes 4 bandit-terrorists in Kaduna

Troops of 1 Division, Nigerian Army and Air Component Operation Whirl Punch have neutralised four bandits and captured arms and ammunition in an operation that lasted for about 48 hours in Kaduna...

Troops clears 4 Boko Haram hideouts, killed 7 insurgents  in Borno
By: Zagazola Makama
The Nigerian troops have cleared four suspected Boko Haram terrorists hideouts and killed 7 insurgents  in the North East of Bama in Borno State.
In a...

Super Tukano Rain Bombs on Boko Haram gathering in Sambisa,  killed scores 

By: Zagazola Makama 

Strikes by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Super Tucano fighter jets have killed scores of  Boko Haram terrorusts during their...

Boko Haram killed 6 ISWAP terrorists in a Reprisal clashes

By: Zagazola Makama 

Atleast six members of the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP), have been killed by their rival Boko Haram group, in a fresh...

AGAIN,TROOPS OF 1 DIVISION NIGERIAN ARMY AND AIR COMPONENT OF OPERATION WHIRL GIVE TERRORISTS BLOODY NOSE, NEUTRALIZE 4 BANDITS, CAPTURE ARMS AND AMMUNITION IN KADUNA

In continuation with the onslaught against banditry, kidnapping...

ISWAP Killed 15 Boko Haram Including Abu Zara In A Fresh Clash In Sambisa Forest

By: Zagazola Makama

A  deadly infighting between the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād (Boko Haram) terrorist group and the Islamic...

Troops neutralised 77 terrorists in 2 weeks

The Defence Headquarters says troops of the armed forces have eliminated 77 terrorists in various operations,  across theatres of operations in Northeast, North-Central and Northwest in the last two...