The Abuja Court of Appeal has set aside a Special Military Court Martial’s conviction of a former Chief of Transformation and Innovation at the Nigerian Army...
After nearly three decades of ruling, Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has been overthrown and arrested, the defence minister says. According to BBC, defence minister Awad Ibn...
The main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that the Nigerian military now shares the powers of President Muhammadu Buhari with him. The...
The European Union Election Observation Mission, EU EOM, has delivered a damning report on the 2019 elections. On the March 9 governorship and state assembly elections...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has resolved to approach the United Nations and other global democratic institutions over the alleged roles the Nigerian military played in...
As the country goes to the polls in less than 24hours, the Federal government has ordered the closure of all land borders in the country with...
An aide to governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Dr. Anugbom Anuoha, has been reportedly kidnapped. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Nnamdi...
The Federal Government and the Peoples Republic of China, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Chinese to support the Armed Forces of Nigeria...
Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, sagas said the “biggest opposition” the Nigerian military faces is probably the social media, and not Boko Haram. Segun...
A former Minster for Defence in the military era, Major General Godwin Abbe (ret.) has said the government was to blame for the alleged diversion of...
Soldiers have begun intense lobbying to escape deployments into the North-East, following the escalating wave of Boko Haram attacks on military formations in the region, Saturday...
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, and the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, otherwise known as Shi’ites have traded blames over the killing of three IMN members in Zuba...
The Defence Headquarters, Abuja, has said its operatives have killed 35 criminals and arrested 98 suspects in an operation launched to curtail arms profileration in the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday called on troops of the Nigerian Army to be ruthless with criminal elements depriving Nigerians of peace. Read Also: The signs are...
Nigerian military’s Alpha jet and Mi-35M attack helicopter deployed to Zamfara State as part of the Operation Diran Mikiya, has killed 20 bandits terrorizing the state....
The burial of over 200 victims of the recent attacks in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen generated...
The Nigerian military authorities have been forced to keep as well as recycle battle weary and disoriented soldiers in the ongoing counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations against...
Both the Presidency and the Nigerian military have reacted to the revelation by Ahmad Salkida, a journalist closely investigating the Boko Haram insurgency, that all but...
The Federal Government is unhappy that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has “escalated eight potential cases against Nigeria”, arguing that contrary to the premise of the...
The Presidency Saturday responded to a call made by a former army chief, Theophilus Danjuma urging Nigerians to defend themselves against herdsmen attacks citing collusion of...
It was a moment of jubilation for the residents of Maiduguri and Bama towns of Borno State as the military officially reopened the major road that...
The 105 girls released by Boko Haram have been flown from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to Abuja. They were airlifted from the Maiduguri Air Force...
The military has bemoaned “speculation” by the media over its operations regarding the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls, vowing to now “limit the way we publicise the strategy...
The Nigerian military has engaged local fishermen and farmers to help in the search operation for the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls. This was disclosed by the head...
A network of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Abuja, Wednesday, accused serving and retired military officers in cattle business of hiring and arming herders from Mali,...
Documents obtained by Saturday PUNCH show that the military is not truthful in its denial of its intention to bar women cadets from being admitted into...
The Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, have once again told President Muhammadu Buhari that using the military to solve the Niger Delta crisis is not an option....
The release of 21 of the 218 abducted Chibok girls has continued to generate controversies, as indications have emerged that all may not be well within...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai, has said the Nigerian Army is already in a celebration mood over what it called its defeat...
The Nigerian military has decared that it was in full support of effortds resolving the crisie in the Niger Delta through dialogue. It however threatened that...
President Muhammadu Buhari has alleged that politicians who stole the nation’s money were the ones who recruited militants in the Niger Delta against his administration. The...
THE caretaker Chairman of Gubio Local Government Area,LGA, of Borno State, Alhaji Zanna Modu has said that the degrading of the activities of Boko Haram insurgents...
The Federal Government has approved the harmonisation of the military pension scheme. The Spokesman of the Military Pensions Board (MPB), Flt.-Lt Ikenna Ezendu, disclosed this in...
The Department of State Services, Sunday, said it has foiled attempts by some Boko Haram members to join the Nigerian Army. According to the secret police,...
Niger Delta Greenland Justice Movement (NDGJM), has declared ‘Operation Crocodile Tears,’ as it blew up the Ogor-Oteri major delivery line, operated by the Nigeria Petroleum Development...
The rampaging Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, has said it is done with attacks on oil installations in the country, and ready to embrace dialogue. The militant...
The Nigerian military has said recent fears over likely federal forces offensive in the Niger Delta were unnecessary as there are no such plans. Chief of...
The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, Operation Delta Safe (ODS), says it has killed two members of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) and arrested...
Mr John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State, on Tuesday said that beating Boko Haram on the battlefield is only the beginning of what Nigeria must do...
About nine people were reportedly killed in a week long operation by cultists who attacked Assa community in the Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State....
The Nigerian Army will intensify its rescue operations in North East to free those abducted by the violent Islamist sect, Boko Haram, despite recent mounting calls...
The Nigerian Military on Tuesday in Abuja said that no fewer than 8000 Boko Haram members had voluntarily surrendered to its “Operation Safe Corridor’’ in the...
Niger State governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has ordered the military to immediately release all persons arrested over the killing of 12 military personnel in Bosso Local...
16-years after embarking on a hunger strike in protest of alleged military brutality in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, 44-year-old activist, Irom Sharmila has decided...
The Nigerian Army confirmed that 11 military personnel died in the gun battle with armed bandits at Kopa, Dagma and Gagaw villages of Bosso Local Government...
A Niger Delta militant group, Forest Soldiers, aka Isaac Boro Last Born, had said it is going to do damages in the Niger Delta that the...
The people of Kaiama in Kolokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa state, have deserted their homes over fear of military attack. Kaiama, home of Ijaw hero,...
The Nigerian military continued its assault on the camps of suspected militants on Saturday with intense bombardment of Fatola, in the Igando area of Lagos State....
Despite reported breakthrough in preliminary negotiations between the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND and the Federal Government through oil companies and security agencies,...
Three militant groups in the Niger Delta region, have alleged that the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, was removed as the Group...