Fear Grips Bandits As DHQ Says Troops’ War Mode Has Been Activated Against Terror
Defence Headquarters said, yesterday, that the current leadership of the Armed Forces has activated troops into ‘war mode’, with a view to countering the threats of terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and economic sabotage being perpetrated against Nigerians. Consequently, in the last one week, troops neutralised 23 terrorists, bandits and IPoB militants, rescued 17 kidnapped civilians and arrested 32 criminal elements, including...
Military Can’t Solve Insurgency Problem In North East — VP Shettima
Vice President, Kashim Shettima has said that the military cannot end the crisis in the Northeast as against a kinetic and non-kinetic solution. The Vice President also said that the Bola Tinubu administration will, in the coming weeks, unveil an initiative that will address insurgency and poverty, among other challenges confronting Nigerians especially those living in the northern region. He stated...
Chief Of Army Staff Orders Clampdown On Sit-At-Home Enforcers In South East
The Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has directed troops of the Nigerian Army to assert control over regions where Simon Ekpa, a self-acclaimed disciple of Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, imposed a sit-at-home order in the South-East. He spoke as the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Aderemi Adeoye assured yesterday that...
Obi Decries Loss Of Lives Across Nigeria
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi has urged security agencies to do more in securing the nation, saying that it is unacceptable for innocent Nigerians to continue to be killed in their hundreds within their own country. In a statement posted on his official Twitter page on Thursday, Obi said the implications...
Troops Neutralise 3 Bandits In Plateau Gun Duel
Troops of the 3 Division of the Nigerian Army, on Wednesday, killed three bandits in the Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. The troops neutralised the criminals in a gun battle after clearing an ambush by the bandits. “The troops obliterated the criminals when they gallantly fought through an ambush staged by the bandits, while responding to a distress call...
Tinubu Meets With Nigerian Troops In Guinea Bissau’s Peacekeeping Mission
President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Guinea Bissau for the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The News Agency of Nigeria reports that this is Tinubu’s second foreign trip after his participation at the summit on “A New Global Financing Pact” in Paris, France, hosted...
Baby Found Alive At Mother’s Back 24 Hours After She Was Killed By Bandits
A seven-month-old baby boy named Habibu has been found sleeping on his mother’s back 24 hours after she was shot dead by bandits on the Pandogari-Allawa road in Shiroro LGA of Niger State. Bandits blocked the Pandogari-Allawa road a day to Sallah and shot six passengers, including an SS 2 student of the Maryam Babangida Girls’ Science College, Minna, Hauwa...
Securing Nigeria Not Easy Task, Ex-CDS Irabor Says At Pulling Out Ceremony
The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, says that providing security for a diverse country like Nigeria is not an easy task, but insists it is not an impossible one to achieve. He said this in his valedictory speech during the pulling-out ceremony organised for him at the Mogadishu Cantonment in Abuja on Friday. According to Irabor, the...
New NDA Commandant Assumes Office In Kaduna
Sequel to the recent redeployment of some senior officers of the Nigerian Army by the new Chief Of Army staff (COAS), Maj. Gen. Taoreed A. Lagbaja, Maj. Gen. John O. Ochai has assumed command as the 32nd Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna on Monday, June 26, 2023. He took over from Maj. Gen. Ibrahim M. Yusuf,...
New Defence Chief Vows Full Force Against Bandits, Terrorists
The new Chief of Defence Staff, Maj.-Gen. Christopher Musa, on Friday threatened that troops of the Nigerian Military would go all out against the marauding bandits, terrorists and other adversaries disturbing the peace of the country. Maj.-Gen. Musa, who disclosed this at Defence Headquarters, Abuja, when he officially took over from Gen. Lucky Irabor (rtd) said the determination of the...
