The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has refuted as false an alleged rumour of a military coup d’etat published in an online medium (not The Frontier) yesterday, Sunday, February 25. The Acting Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, disclosed this in a statement today. Gusau said the Guards Brigade has the statutory responsi...
•Troops The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Gwabin Musa has vowed that the military will go after persons advocating coup d’ ‘etat in the country. Describing such individuals as enemies of Nigeria, Musa said the law would surely catch up with them, reports The Nation. Musa insisted that the Armed Forces was on top […]
•Guinea junta Guinea’s junta has ordered government members’ passports to be seized and their bank accounts frozen after dissolving the administration for unknown reasons. The military, who took power in a September 2021 coup, yesterday decreed the dissolution of the government, which has been in office since July 2022, reports AFP. The junta ...
•Troops on camouflage The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, has reaffirmed the ban on unauthorised use of military camouflage, saying that it is only the Armed Forces and the Nigeria Police Force while on joint operation with the military that are allowed by law to use the military camouflage. The Director of Information [&hellip...
•Army boss and female soldier Godfrey George writes about the allegations of sexual harassment in Nigeria’s military, reports Saturday PUNCH. As a child, Toochi (surname withheld) had a masculine gait that made heads turn whenever she walked. At 14, an aunt who had recently retired from the Nigerian Air Force advised her to join the […]...
The Defence Headquarters has said it would not hesitate to take legal action against Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) if it continued to mislead the people over the crisis in Plateau State. It lamented that the organisation had continued to spread falsehoods in order to create tension in the country, reports The Nation. [&h...
•Bandits Gunmen believed to be bandits, today, abducted a director in Federal Housing Authority, Federal Capital Territory, identified as Aondo Ver, from his home, during an attack about 200 metres close to a military base in Pambara in the Bwari Area Council of Abuja. •Aondo Ver The bandits who struck around 12.30am today, shot indiscriminate...
•US troops A drone attack on a base in Jordan killed three American troops today, with President Joe Biden blaming Iran-backed militants and vowing to hold the perpetrators to account. It is the first time American military personnel have been killed by hostile fire in the Middle East since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, […]
•Defence Headquarters The Nigerian Police Force yesterday said it recovered no fewer than ten corpses in various locations in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State yesterday. This was as the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in the Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, Rev Timothy Daluk, said he would not withdraw...
•Defence Headquarters The Defence Headquarters has said it would request to meet with the Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, Rev Timothy Daluk, over his recent comment against the military. Daluk had accused the Nigerian military of supervising the killings of Christians and destruction ...
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