Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) have neutralised eight terrorists during a coordinated clearance operation in Kayamla and Sojiri villages of Borno State. Military sources disclosed that the operation, codenamed Desert Sanity V, involved sustained patrols and offensive manoeuvres aimed at flushing out insurgents of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS/ISWAP) reportedly hiding in the […]
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Men of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), under the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai (AC OPHK), have executed devastating airstrikes on a terrorist enclave north of Chiralia, a known hideout within the notorious Timbuktu Triangle. Group Captain Kabiru Ali Deputy Director of Public Relations and Information, Headquarters, Nigerian Air Force, in a statement said […]
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Not less than 13 people were killed when terrorists attacked the Anguwan Mai-Giro community in Niger State on Wednesday night, the News Agency of Nigeria reported. The Niger State Government confirmed the attack but did not say the exact number of people killed. Acting Governor Yakubu Garba described the attack as satanic, insensible, atrocious and callous, according […]
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An investigative report by Reuters has accused Nigerian Army of killing children fathered by insurgents. In the investigation published on Monday, Reuters reported that top army commanders allegedly ordered soldiers to “delete” children born to insurgents. According to the report, the directive was issued “because the children were assumed to be collaborating with militants in Boko […]
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NIGERIA – The inspector-general of police (IGP), Usman Baba, has ordered the deployment of armed personnel to safeguard stations along the Abuja-Kaduna rail services. The force spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a statement on Sunday, said the operatives would be drawn from the police mobile force, K-9, force intelligence bureau, explosive ordinance unit and railway police […]
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NIGERIA – President Muhammadu Buhari has accused the elites in Nigeria of doing so much to promote insecurity and banditry. Speaking the inauguration of some projects in Imo state on Tuesday, the president said those should be speaking about the achievements of his administration are not doing so. He said considering the available resources when […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said the ongoing implementation of the National Identity Number and SIM linkage policy in the country has posed a difficultly for terrorists and bandits to access telecommunication services. NCC Director, Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement, Ephraim Nwokonanya, represented by Head Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement, Alkasim Umar, made this disclosure at […]
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The Police in Katsina State have succeeded in neutralizing two terrorists while rescuing seven abducted victims in an attack on Malumfashi and Kankara Local Government Areas of the state. One AK-47 rifle, 82 cows, 70 sheep and a motorcycle were recovered from the well-armed hoodlums who attacked Fuloti and Gandu Karfi hamlets at about 8.30 […]
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The Nigeria Immigration Service has raised an alarm over plans by suspected foreign insurgents to attack the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its environs. Reports had it that the NIS made this known in a letter dated December 23, 2021, signed by the Land Border Patrol Commander, Edirin Okoto, on behalf of the Acting Comptroller General […]
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No fewer than 31 Nigerian soldiers were killed when IS-aligned jihadists ambushed a military convoy escorting weapons and overran a base in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, military sources told AFP Monday. Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) had attacked the convoy on Sunday in the town of Mainok outside the regional capital […]
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