Soldiers from the 81 Division of the Nigerian Army threatened to skin alive a Punch correspondent, Deji Lambo, on Wednesday when he visited the scene where suspected vandals had ruptured the pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation along the Long Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State. According to the Punch, the
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Soldiers on Sunday morning attacked the circulation vehicle of The Punch Newspapers, which was on its way to distribute one of its titles to the states in the South-South. One of the vehicle’s front tyres was torn beyond repair with a knife by one of the soldiers manning Mbiama, a border town between Rivers and
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At least three Mali soldiers were killed and five wounded Sunday in a suspected jihadist attack on an army camp in the far north of the country, the Malian military said. The outpost in Bambara Maoude, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of the city of Timbuktu “was the object at about 0500 GMT of
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Jihadists aligned with the Islamic State group have killed five security personnel, including two soldiers, in three separate attacks in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, sources said Wednesday. In the first attack on Monday, fighters from the Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP) jihadist group aboard trucks attacked a military post in Tungushe village near the state
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Troops of the 159 Battalion, Geidam Sector 2, Yobe State, have threatened to abandon their duty post over alleged neglect by Nigerian Army authorities. The soldiers in a letter addressed to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), the National Assembly, United Nations, African Union, and several other organisations, complained that they had been on counter-insurgency
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