•Troops Security agencies have heightened surveillance around schools, NYSC orientation camps, places of worship and other vulnerable locations following intelligence indicating plans by terrorists to launch coordinated attacks across the country. The Nigeria Police Force, in a security alert circulated to its formations nationwide, warned of ...
•Tinubu and terrorists The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has declined to comment on allegations that the Tinubu-led federal government reached a secret ceasefire deal with Boko Haram in June 2026. A report published yesterday by The New Humanitarian alleged that the federal government and Boko Haram agreed to a ceasefire following negotiations li...
•Nigeria Police Force To prepare security officers, media, and other stakeholders for a peaceful and credible 2027 general election, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Zone 2 Command, today flagged off a training on election security management, charging participants to be neutral, professional, and patriotic. The event, themed: “Professionalism,...
•Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Oluyede The Defence Headquarters has raised the alarm over a fabricated artificial intelligence-generated video falsely portraying the Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Oluyede, as making partisan political statements. The military described the video as a deliberate attempt to deceive the public,...
The Defence Headquarters has disclosed that its official X account has been compromised in an attempted unauthorised access. The DHQ, in a statement yesterday by the Director of Defence Information, Major General Samaila Uba, said the incident was being treated as a cybersecurity matter, with technical measures activated to secure the account....
•The suspects Operatives of the Department of State Services and troops of the Nigerian Army yesterday foiled a major attempt by members of the outlawed Eastern Security Network to kidnap scores of students writing the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination in some Southeast states. The targeted schools for the abductions w...
•Terrorists The Nigerian military has raised the alarm over possible terror attacks by Boko Haram and ISWAP at densely populated locations across the North-East during the forthcoming Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The spokesman of the Headquarters Joint Task Force (North-East), Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), Lt. Col. Sani Uba, gave the warning in a s...
•Major General Michael Onoja The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has dismissed claims that any terrorist group has established a permanent operational base in the South-West geopolitical zone of the country. The clarification followed reports in some quarters alleging that terrorist groups had established operational bases in the region after the r...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has confirmed that the Nigerian military, in collaboration with United States forces, killed a senior ISIS leader and one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, Abu Bilal al-Minuki, during a recent joint operation. The military high command said the precision operation was executed under the recently established ...
•Air strike The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has dismissed reports alleging that civilians were killed during a recent military air strike on Tumfa market in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The military insisted that there is no credible evidence to support claims of civilian casualties arising from the operation carried out on Sun...
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