TWO persons were on Thursday night kidnapped when gunmen invaded the Nigerian Post Army estate in Abuja, Newsextra24 reported. The wife and one of the in-laws of a legal practitioner Cyril Adikwu, were whisked away during the incident that occurred at about 10:00 p.m. in the Phase 2 area of …
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THE Defence Headquarters said, on Thursday, that troops in the last two weeks intercepted stolen crude worth N1.2bn. This was as it vowed to incapacitate terrorists from carrying out small-scale attacks on soft targets. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, said this on Thursday in Abuja while …
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THE Nigeria Army Troops of the 21-Armored Brigade, Bama, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) and 199 Special Forces Battalion in collaboration with Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), have killed 35 Boko Haram terrorists in the ongoing clearance operation in Sambisa Forest. The troops headed by one Brig. Gen. Victor Unachukwu a.k.a …
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MEN of the Nigeria Army have laid siege to the Rundele Community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State over the alleged murder of a soldier. It was gathered that on Saturday soldiers had had an altercation with some alleged oil thieves in the area and that the bunkerers …
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The Nigeria Army on Friday pulled out 14 Infantry generals from active service in a colourful ceremony in Kaduna. The retired officers who were pulled out in a parade at the Jaji Military Cantonment, Kaduna, consisted eight Maj-Generals and six Brigadier-Generals. Newsextra24, reports that the pulling out parade was in …
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Rescued Chibok schoolgirl, Amina Ali-Nkeki, on Thursday arrived at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, for audience with President Muhammadu Buhari. The girl, her baby, her mother and her brother, were led to the villa by Borno governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, at about 2.46 p.m. The governor and the girl, with her …
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An estimated 10,000 local hunters from the North-East of Nigeria gathered recently in Adamawa State for their annual oath-taking festival, known as Salala in the local parlance. The hunters, dressed in their warfare attires, and with their dane guns dangling over their shoulders, vowed to rid the society of criminals. …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that those who are found guilty in the $2.1 billion arms deal fraud will be sent to jail. He said this in a recent interview with BBC Hausa. In the interview,he said: “Remember during the campaigns, we said Nigeria is facing three things and nobody …
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As Nigerians elsewhere celebrate Nigeria’s 55-year independence anniversary, residents of Kirchinga, in Adamawa state, are marking the day in anguish following the attack on the village by Boko Haram terrorists, slitting the throats of five residents of the area in an early morning attack. The village is the hometown of …
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The Nigerian Army has raised an alarm that members of the Boko Haram sect have resorted to poisoning water sources in places they have been dislodged. The Army is warning people to avoid drinking water from unverified sources particularly in areas that troops have routed the sect. Nigerian Army This …
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