Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, and retired judges, yesterday said the Nigerian Police Force, NPF, ought to handle investigations into the recent murder of 17 soldiers, and an unconfirmed number of villagers at Okuama in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. The legal luminaries, who faulted the handing over of the traditional...
•The fallen soldiers The Nigerian Army says it has concluded all arrangements to give some of its personnel, who were killed-in-action in Okuama Community, Delta State, a befitting burial in Abuja tomorrow. The 17 deceased personnel, attached to 181 Amphibious Batallion, who will be buried at the National Cemetery, Abuja, by 3:00pm, were kille...
Monarchs, retired security officers, clerics, and activists in the Niger Delta, yesterday, urged the federal government to direct the Army to withdraw its siege to the embattled Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State to avert losses of more lives and douse tension in the oil region. They also asked the criminals [...
•Troops The Nigerian Army High Command today expressed dismay over the resolve of the Okuama Community to embark on media propaganda on the unfortunate killing of troops of 181 Amphibious Battalion, saying their actions indicated the killings were communally orchestrated. The military personnel were killed while on a peaceful and mediatory mis...
•Troops Fourteen lifeless bodies of killed soldiers were in the early hours of yesterday recovered by soldiers of the joint task force under the supervision of the General Officer Commanding 6 division Nigerian Army, Major General Jamal Abdussalam, at Okuama community, in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. Some of the reco...
•Kits belonging to fallen soldiers The military high command today vowed to go after some youths, who reportedly killed 16 of its personnel attached to 181 Amphibious Batallion in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State. Trouble started on Thursday when the troops responded to a distress call regarding a communal crisis between the Okuoma ...
Nigerian Army 2 Division Headquarters, Adekunle Fajuyi Cantonment, Odogbo Barracks Oojo Ibadan has today notified members of the public especially residents of Ibadan metropolis about the extension of the ongoing shooting range exercise at the cantonment. The 2 Division Nigerian Army Headquarters earlier last week through a press statement iss...
•Top Army brass The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has inaugurated a special military court for the trial of one officer and 16 soldiers for alleged criminal offences. The general court-martial sitting at the Rhino officers’ mess, Maxwell Khobe cantonment, Rukuba Barracks, Jos wil...
•Lassa Fever The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Dr Jide Idris, has confirmed the outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic fever (Lassa fever) that claimed the lives of three staff members of 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna. Briefing journalists yesterday in Abuja, Idris said that the NCD...
•Mortuary Corpses in mortuaries within some barracks of the Nigerian Army are rotting away over power outage. Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, disclosed this when he visited Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, to seek intervention, reports Daily Trust. Recall that the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) had given 83 ...
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