Details: Published: 19 February 2023; Views : 6960

Successes of military operations have rekindle citizens’ confidence – GOC

Maj. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division Nigerian Army, says the successes of various military operations have decreased security...

Details: Published: 18 February 2023; Views : 8060

Police arrest suspected female gun runner in Zamfara

The Zamfara Police Command has arrested a suspected female gunrunner for allegedly supplying arms and ammunition to bandits.

The police had also recovered 325 live ammunition of AK 47...

Details: Published: 18 February 2023; Views : 11990

Irabor tasks military personnel on peaceful elections

The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, says the nation is looking up to the armed forces and other security agencies to ensure peaceful and smooth elections.

Irabor, who was...

Details: Published: 18 February 2023; Views : 9030

ISWAP frees Medical Doctor Abducted in Gubio
By: Zagazola Makama
Dr Geidam Bulama, a Principal Medical Officer, PMO, who had been held captive by the Islamic State of the West African Province(ISWAP), has been released.
Bulama was...

Details: Published: 18 February 2023; Views : 8470

FCT, 32 states in Nigeria risk high floods, severe consequences, FG warns

The Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu has warned that 178 Local Government Areas(LGAs) in 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory(FCT) fell...

Details: Published: 17 February 2023; Views : 10360

Troops neutralize seven bandits in Chikun LGA

A combined team of troops of the Nigerian Army and Navy have neutralized seven bandits during clearance operations in the Kasso general area of Chikun LGA.

Operational feedback to...

Details: Published: 17 February 2023; Views : 49860

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...

Details: Published: 16 February 2023; Views : 7150

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...

Details: Published: 16 February 2023; Views : 6920

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...

Details: Published: 16 February 2023; Views : 9190

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...

Details: Published: 16 February 2023; Views : 7780

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...

Details: Published: 15 February 2023; Views : 10310

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...

Details: Published: 15 February 2023; Views : 7620

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...

Details: Published: 14 February 2023; Views : 17600

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....

Details: Published: 13 February 2023; Views : 9740

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...

Details: Published: 12 February 2023; Views : 8230

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...

Details: Published: 12 February 2023; Views : 10830

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...

Details: Published: 11 February 2023; Views : 6360

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...

Details: Published: 11 February 2023; Views : 13360

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...

Details: Published: 11 February 2023; Views : 7370

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...

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