Okoloba, one of the communities involved in the communal clashes that led to the killing of 17 soldiers on March 14 at Okuama, Ughelli South Local...
The Defence Headquarters, on Sunday, clarified that only an Army Lieutenant was killed and four other soldiers wounded when Boko Haram terrorists ambushed the troops along...
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Monday night, revealed the identities of the 16 soldiers who were killed by attackers while on a peace mission to...
The rescue of the over 278 school children and teachers abducted by bandits from the LEA Primary School and the Government Secondary School, Kuriga, Kaduna State...
The Aso Rock Presidential Villa, the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Defence Headquarters, amongst other government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) are owing the Abuja...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) says Nigerian Army troops successfully eliminated 151 terrorists, arrested over 456 other criminal elements and recovered caches of sophisticated weapons in various...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Abuja, has accused a foreign news organization Reuters of trying to blackmail the Nigerian military through what it called “mercenary journalism.” Maj.Gen....
Nigerian troops operating in the theater of war in the North-East, have arrested a suspected foreign logistic supplier and arms dealer to the terrorists, named Mallam...
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said in a report on Thursday that a total of 98 terrorists of the Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said the military has killed over 120 terrorists including Boko Haram/ISWAP commanders, rescued 38 kidnapped victims as well as arrested over 50...
The military Defence Headquarters (DHQ), has revealed that family members and close relatives of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram terrorists,...
About 996 repentant Boko Haram terrorists and members of their families have reportedly surrendered to the Nigerian Military in the last two weeks, according to the...
The Nigerian Army has given a new situation report on the fight against insurgency in the country, stating that 219 more Boko Haram fighters and their...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), has released its latest situation report on the ongoing fight against insurgency in the country, declaring that military operations in the North-East...
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters on Thursday disclosed that a lot of soldiers have lost their lives in battles at the various theatres of operations across the...
The Defence Headquarters has disclosed that troops of Operation AWATSE, have arrested a suspected member of Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the Sango Otta...
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters has slammed speculations that there is an ongoing mass retirement of some generals in the Nigerian Army following the appointment of Maj.-Gen....
The Defence Headquarters said on Friday the air crash that killed the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 other military personnel in...
The defence headquarters (DHQ) has refuted allegations that it sent its operatives to spy on Sunday Adeyemo, a Yoruba youth leader better known as Sunday Igboho....
The Chief of Defence Staff, Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, has pledged to ensure that the armed forces of Nigeria upscales its operations to ensure adequate protection of...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has confirmed the killing of no fewer than 35 Boko Haram terrorists and the recovery of many rustled cows stolen by bandits...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has informed that scores of terrorists have been eliminated and their hideouts destroyed during an onslaught by the Air Task Force of...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) claimed on Friday that troops of Operation Hadarin Daji had killed 38 suspected bandits in separate operations in Katsina and Zamfara States....
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, made the observation in a statement in reaction to comments credited to Governor Zulum. The statement, titled...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Wednesday, assured that President Muhammadu Buhari’s safety is guaranteed in Katsina, despite a recent attack in the state that has been...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said that scores of bandits have been neutralised and their camps destroyed during airstrikes at the Kuduru Forest area of Kaduna...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has told Nigerians not to be discouraged by the recent attack by Boko Haram in which 43 rice farmers were massacred. This...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has revealed that no fewer than 18 persons including four soldiers, 10 policemen and four civilians were killed during an attack on...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has confirmed the killing of several Boko Haram/Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists’ in Lake Chad and Sambisa forest during...
The Defence Headquarters said on Sunday the military and other security agencies had been placed on red alert following reports of planned Boko Haram attack in...
An attack on Kukawa town of Borno State on Tuesday by the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) has been confirmed by the Nigerian Defence...
The Defence Headquarters on Wednesday said that air strikes launched by fighter aircraft of the Nigerian Airforce on Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists and their camps in the...
The Defence Headquarters on Thursday said that 602 repentant Boko Haram terrorists had in the last one week swore Oath of Allegiance to the Federal Republic...
Scores of Boko Haram fighters have been killed and their facilities and logistic supplies destroyed during an airstrike launched by the Air Task Force (ATF) of...
The Defence Headquarters has informed that scores of Boko Haram terrorists were neutralised during a well-coordinated commando raid on their hideout at Kwatara on the Mandara...
An operation in Kashia Forest in Kaduna State by troops of the newly-launched Operation Accord on Friday has left no fewer than 70 armed bandits and...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said the military is ready to implement presidential directives to check the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The Coordinator, Defence...
The Defence Headquarters has said that about 281 repentant Boko Haram fighters have completed its de-radicalisation programme under the Operation Safe Corridor programme in Gombe State....
Ahead of today’s Inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term in office, the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, has warned trouble makers to stay away from...
The Defence headquarters in Friday gave an update on its several operations across the country against insurgency, terrorism and bandits. Top on the operational successes is...
As Nigerians, especially residents of the Northeast and Borno State in particular fret over the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks, ahead of next year’s general elections,...
The Defence Headquarters on Thursday said there is no truth in reports making the rounds that it was making plans to engage the services of South...
Luck ran out for two suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers in the early hours of Monday, at they blew themselves up near Sulemanti Mosque in Maiduguri...
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, Saturday, said Boko Haram insurgents are planning large scale bombings during the Ramadan fasting period. The DHQ, in an emailed statement on...
The Defense Headquarters, DHQ, has warned oil vandals and terrorists, cattle rustlers and others suspected to be behind attacks in different parts of the country, that...
