…before the latest attack, the herders had attacked and killed two persons on February 3 No fewer than six people were killed while three soldiers were injured when suspected armed herders launched another attack on some communities in Benue State over the weekend. The incident, according to locals, occurred at a border between the Tse-Abwa
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…about 68 residents lost their lives The Zamfara State Governor, Bello Mattawalle has confirmed that scores of residents and soldiers were killed during an operation by the Nigerian Air Force in the state. Mattawalle condoled with the families of the victims. No fewer than 68 residents lost their lives at Mutunji village in the Maru
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…the defendants were arraigned on three counts of impersonation, forgery, and unlawful possession of arms Two men have been arraigned before the Ogba Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for allegedly impersonating members of the Nigerian Army. The duo, Gabriel Oyewole and Nurudeen Agboola, were said to have obtained fake identity cards of the Nigerian Army and
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…the gunmen attacked the soldiers and killed two before the army personnel gave them a chase and neutralised four About two soldiers and four gunmen were killed in a fierce battle attack at an army checkpoint in Isuofia, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, hometown of the state governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo in the
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A police operative was on Saturday allegedly injured by some soldiers inside Ajegunle Spare Parts Market in Osogbo, Osun State, following a disagreement. The cause of the disagreement and the identities of the police and soldiers involved could not be immediately ascertained at the time of filing this report. Sources in the market claimed that
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An Owerri based businessman Noel Zeribe Chigbu was on Saturday allegedly killed by soldiers who fired at him. The latest incident sources said happened when Ngor Okpala community are yet to wake up from the shock of the extra judicial killing of one of their kinsman, Mr Tochi Ekwe by the military personnel. Noel Nzeribe’s
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The Nigerian Air Force has said it is investigating a report that its fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram insurgents in Mainok, headquarters of the Kaga Local Government Area of Borno state, mistakenly bombed men of the Nigerian Army on Sunday, killing over twenty officers. The Air Force in a statement on Monday
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The leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra and founder of the Eastern Security Network, Nnamdi Kanu, has advised the 101 soldiers accused by the Nigerian Army of fleeing the Boko Haram attacks in New Marte and Dikwa towns in Borno State to join the ESN. Kanu added that soldiers were leaving the military and
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According to an investigation by the House of Representatives Committee on Army, 386 soldiers voluntarily resigned from the Nigerian Army due to medical and other reasons in the second quarter of 2020. It was reported that this was made known on Tuesday when the chairman of the committee, Abdulrazaq Namdaz, presented the committee’s report to
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Six French soldiers were injured during an operation against Islamist militants in Mali in West Africa, French media reported on Saturday, citing the Defence Ministry. The attackers struck on Friday morning in the central region around Gourma, apparently driving a vehicle up to a military convoy before setting off an explosive. The injured soldiers were
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Following the alleged plan to carry out another round of #EndSARS protest, armed policemen and soldiers have been deployed at the Lekki toll plaza, Lagos. Several motorists informed The PUNCH that the security operatives were deployed around midnight. The Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, did not respond to calls on Monday morning. However, both
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Pandemonium broke out in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Friday, when hoodlums and smugglers held some officers of the Nigeria Customs Service hostage and as well snatched a gun from a female soldier. It was gathered that the incident happened on Friday night and spread to Saturday after men of Nigeria Customs Service intercepted
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The nation’s Armed Forces was on Monday directed by President Muhammadu Buhari to take the fight to Boko Haram terrorists group in their den. The president, according to a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, also sent a message through his Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, to
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Armed assailants killed six soldiers, injured 26 others and many others missing in an ambush attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria‘s Borno state on Saturday. The ambush, according to military officials briefed on the matter, occurred at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday between Jagiran and Monguno, one of the hotspot of the decade-long Boko
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Seven soldiers were killed and others wounded or missing after their patrol was ambushed in northern Burkina Faso, the centre of a five-year-old jihadist insurgency, security sources said on Thursday. The troops were attacked on Wednesday between Tin Akoff and Beldiabe in Oudalan province, which borders Mali and Niger, one source said. “The provisional toll
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