•Terrorists Despite threat by bandits to kill the 286 students and staff of Government SecÂondary School and LEA Primary School, Kuriga, Kaduna State kidnapped recentÂly, the Defence Headquarters, yesterday vowed to rescue them unhurt. The terrorists have also demanded a total of N1 billion ($620,432) for their release, reports Daily Independe...
•Ajaokuta steel complex The federal government has announced plans for the Ajaokuta steel complex to commence the production of military hardware. Steps have been taken to commence the process, with the Ministries of Steel Development and Defence poised to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for its implementation, reports The Nation. The...
Four soldiers were killed and nine injured when their military patrol came under attack with explosives while tracking down a criminal group in western Mexico, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said today. The ambush took place yesterday in a rural area of the Aguililla municipality in Michoacan province, the president said at his daily pr...
•Troops The Defence Headquarters is encouraging Nigerians to embrace a new initiative, the Celebrate Nigeria Challenge, aimed at revitalising the nation. This call to action was conveyed through a video shared by the Army on its official X account today. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Major-General Edward Buba emphasised the importa...
•Troops burning terrorists camp The military Joint Task Force North-West Operation Hadarin Daji said yesterday, that it neutralised scores of bandits and rescued eight kidnapped victims in Zamfara State. The Information Officer of Operation Hadarin Daji, Lt. Col. Suleiman Omale, stated this in a statement yesterday in Gusau. Omale said, “On th...
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 […]...
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