Reports have emerged that two policemen sustained injuries after a male suicide bomber struck in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, on Thursday night. The attack happened hours after the insurgents engaged security operatives in a gun battle. Boko Haram had attempted to infiltrate the ancient city but they were repelled by a combined team of soldiers, […]
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Brig. Gen. John Agim, Director, Defence Information, of the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, on Thursday said the recent killings in Benue State were being sponsored. Agim told newsmen on Thursday that the military would not support any side in the violence that had been going on in Benue State. Recalled that herdsmen, who blocked Gbeji-Anyinn Road in the […]
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Defence spokesman, John Agim, says the report that only 15 of the 113 missing Chibok schoolgirls are alive is meant to discourage the government. Ahmad Salkida, a journalist known to have access to the leadership of Boko Haram sect, had said majority of the girls had died in captivity. Salkida said those still alive had been […]
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Officials said no fewer than 257 people including members of Western Sahara’s Polisario independence movement were killed when a military plane crashed in a field outside Algeria’s capital on Wednesday, officials said. Television footage showed crowds gathering around the smoking and flaming wreckage near Boufarik airport southwest of Algiers. A line of white body bags […]
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Amnesty International (AI) has said that the Nigerian military was aware of the presence of Boko Haram insurgents in Dapchi, Yobe state, hours before 110 schoolgirls were abducted. It was alleged that an investigation revealed the security forces “failed to act” on advance warnings that a convoy of Boko Haram fighters was heading towards Dapchi […]
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The Defence Headquarters wish to respond to a comment by the Deputy President of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Ike Ekweremadu on Wednesday 7 March 2018, regarding the Nigerian Military, while contributing to a debate on a motion sponsored by Senator Ahmed Ogembe, representing Kogi Central. In his comments among others, the Distinguished Deputy President of […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the military and other security agencies to take charge of Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, recently attacked by Boko Haram insurgents. The President has also directed Minister of Defence, retired Brig-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed and that of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama to visit Dapchi […]
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Some hundreds of Boko Haram suspects were docked in Kainji, in central Nigeria on Monday, in the second phase of trials of 1669 detainees. The trial, being conducted by four judges, is inside a military formation in the town, by the side of River Niger. The suspects are allowed the services of lawyers, and those […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) on Friday said the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, is not dead. An official of the service who chose to remain anonymous told NAN that El-Zakzaky was hale and hearty. The Nigerian army is yet to react to reports of the Shi’ites leader’s death. […]
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In order to forestall further killings, the Presidency on Wednesday evening announced that the Nigerian army has deployed special forces in Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa states. Over 100 people have been killed in the three states in the last one week. The killings have sparked a public outcry with Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, calling on […]
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