•Troops The Nigerian Army has vowed to avenge the killing at the weekend, of two officers and four soldiers in an ambush in Niger State. It confirmed yesterday that the bodies had been found and remains of the Muslims among them buried, reports The Nation. Two injured soldiers in the ambush are receiving treatment at […]
Residents of Okuama-Ewu, Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, have instituted a N200 billion suit against the Nigerian Army at the Federal High Court, Warri, for cordoning off their community, destroying their homes, dehumanizing and accusing them of 17 military personnel without police investigations. The 17 residents of the Okua...
•Clement Ikolo The Nigerian Army has released the traditional ruler, Clement Ikolo, earlier declared wanted and arrested over the gruesome murder of 17 soldiers in Delta State on March 14, 2024. The monarch was declared wanted by the Defence Headquarters alongside seven others for alleged involvement in the act, reports The PUNCH. He was relea...
The Nigerian Army says it is investigating the alleged killing of a lady, Hauwakulu Tabra, by a soldier, Private Adamu Muhammad at one of the barracks in Enugu State. The incident occurred on April 11, 2024 and the corpse of the lady was discovered within the barracks the following day. In a statement yesterday, Director […]
•Late Brig. Gen. Ali Williams Butu (rtd) Brig. Gen. Ali Williams Butu (rtd), an Associate Professor of Geography and Dean, Faculty of Environmental Sciences at the Nigerian Army University, Biu, Borno State, is dead. Butu, who hailed from the Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State, died in Abuja after a brief illness, reports Daily [&hell...
•Troops Troops of the Nigerian Army conducting a cordon-and-search operation over the March 14 killing of 17 military personnel at Okuama in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday invaded another community, Olota, and allegedly whisked away no fewer than 10 persons. This came on a day Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, and...
The Board of Inquiry constituted by Defence Headquarters to probe the March 17 killing of 17 soldiers at Okuama, Delta State, is scheduled to commence sitting today in Warri. Chairman of the Board, Air Vice Marshal David Ajayi, told Governor Sheriff Oborevwori in Warri: “We are on a fact-finding mission and to apportion blame. We […]
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 [...
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