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The Nigerian Army has reacted to report of Boko Haram ambush on the UN-hired truck in Borno. In a statement released by Col O Nwachukwu Deputy Director Public Relations Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole on Monday, the Command dismiissed the report of the killing and ambush of UN staff by...

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday dismissed as ‘misleading’, reports of a suicide bomb attack at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Pulka community of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno. The military also described as ‘fictitious’, the purported killing of six soldiers by Boko Haram...

The Nigerian Army said on Saturday that its troops had captured no fewer than 60 Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East geopolitical zone, in the last three days. The army said some of the captured terrorists were killed during an exchange of gunfire but said the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen...

A Nigerian soldier, David Okechukwu Smart, who is in the forefront of the Boko Haram battle, has urged Nigerians to pray for him and his colleagues. According to the soldier, it is the prayers of Nigerians that are keeping them alive despite loosing many officers in the war against Boko Haram...

Three soldiers were killed. six other injured by Boko Haram insurgents in Magumeri town, Borno State over the weekend. Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 8 Task Force Division, Col. Timothy Antigha, stated this on Sunday. Antigha said the soldiers died while repelling insurgent’s attack...

The Nigerian Army has introduced new language policy for all men and soldiers to foster espirit-de-corps and better communication with the populace to enhance information gathering. The army, therefore, directed all its officers and men to immediately commence the learning of the three major...

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Thursday, prayed the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit seeking to compel him to produce the ‘missing’ leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. A team of lawyers representing the embattled IPOB...

Nigerian troops reportedly engaged Boko Haram elements in a fire fight in Sabo-gari0village, a community between Gulak and Madagali town in Adamawa. According to ChannelsTV, the village is said to have come under attack this evening by the insurgents who are said to be using heavy weapons.

THERE was apprehension among riverine dwellers, yesterday, as the Nigerian Navy and Army deployed fighter jets and gunboats to the creeks and other strategic locations in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, in response to last Friday’s threat by the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, to...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption campaign has been bedevilled by scandals and rumours of scandals in recent times. The list has just been lengthened by a contract scandal in the ministry of defence which has landed a brigadier-general in military court, according to an exclusive...

Nigerian troops supported by hunters and vigilantes finally pushed back invading Boko Haram terrorists in Gulak, headquarters of Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State, officials have said. In a telephone interview on Tuesday morning, the state governor, Muhammadu Jibrilla, told...

A soldier who refused to disclose his identity has written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari to complain about the alleged corruption in the army. The officer on the frontline of the war against insurgency wrote the letter in reaction to the army’s dismissal of the complaints of Abdulrauf...

A Bishop named Iwah Mfon and 18 others have been arrested for armed robbery, kidnapping and cult activities in different areas of Akwa Ibom State by troops of the Nigerian Army in the ongoing Operation Crocodile Smile II taking place in the South-South and South-West region READ MORE HERE

The Federal Government has replied to Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe’s application seeking to withdraw as one of the sureties for the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, describing the application as belated. The government, in its counter-affidavit and written address...

Here are trending pictures of some children in Rivers state running away from school over alleged vaccination by some uniform in the state. The Rivers state government has said that it did not authorise the Nigeria Army or indeed any other body or person to enter into school premises to...

The Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Enyinaya Abaribe, has applied to the court to be discharged from the suretyship, bond and recognizance of the bail of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. In an application filed against the Federal...

The Nigerian Army has declared that it has ended it’s operation in the Southeast. General Officer Commanding (GOC), 82 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Adamu Baba Abubakar, speaking on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff. Lieutenant General TY Buratai formally declare the end of Exercise...

The family of leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has dismissed claims by Abia Commissioner of Police, Anthony Ogbizi that police recovered lethal weapons when, in a joint exercise with the Army, raided their compound at Afara Ukwu on October 8. Kanu’s family...

Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has urged Nigerians to disregard allegations about the spread of Monkeypox through military medical outreach. Director of Defence Information, Major General John Enenche, in a statement on Saturday explained that the medical exercise in the South East was a...

The Nigerian Army has assembled it’s men in Lagos for the flag off of Exercise Crocodile Smile II. Over 1000 military personnel, including the Special Boat Services of the Nigerian Navy are presently in Tarkwa Bay area of Lagos for the flag off. Already, artillery gun shots have been ringing...