•Bandits Two persons have reportedly been kidnapped in a military estate on the outskirts of Abuja, the nation’s capital. It was learnt that the bandits invaded Phase 2, Army Estate, Kurudu last night, reports The Nation. According to eyewitnesses, there was an exchange of gunfire between the bandits and the estate security officials. However,...
•Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has said the military has every reason to ensure a secure country under the current dispensation. Abubakar noted that President Bola Tinubu had provided the military with the needed equipment and resources to deliver on its constitutional mandat...
•IBB A former Nigerian military President, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, popularly called IBB, says he is convinced that there would not be any interference from the military again which may truncate the progress of democracy in the country. Nigeria witnessed a lot of military incursions in its politics after independence, with men in uniform ru...
India said today it had likely found wreckage from an Indian Air Force transport plane that went missing over the sea almost eight years ago with 29 people aboard. A Russian-built Antonov An-32 was carrying service personnel and six crew members during a routine courier service to India’s remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands in July […]
•Tudun Biri village One month after the tragic error drone bombing that claimed over 100 lives from three communities in Tudun Biri village of Igabi LGA of Kaduna State, residents say they are still waiting to be compensated for their losses, and the reports and outcome of the various committees set up by governments at […]
The Israeli military has said it expects the conflict in Gaza to continue throughout 2024. In a New Year’s message, Israel Defence Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said troop deployments were being adjusted to prepare for “prolonged fighting”. He said some troops – especially reservists – would be withdrawn to allow them to regroup, reports AFP....
•House of Reps The House of Representatives, today, called on President Bola Tinubu to urgently deploy military forces to the Okwa community, in Cross River State, to protect the nation’s territorial integrity and ensure the safety of her citizens following an alleged invasion by bandits from neighbouring Cameroon. This is just as the lawmaker...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has announced plans to launch a full investigation into the Military Pensions Board after it resumes from recess. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Olamilekan Adeola, made the announcement today during the defence of the budget report by the Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service, ...
•CDS, General Musa The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Christopher Musa says the investigation over the Kaduna accidental military airstrike will soon be out and also made public. Eighty-five people were confirmed dead in the accidental air strike in the Igabi council area of the North-West state some weeks back with scores injured. In [&...
When the Group Chief Executive Officer, GCEO, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, Mr. Mele Kyari, tripped the alarm, last Friday, that the authorities had discovered over 4,800 illegal connections on the national crude oil pipelines, many were shocked, thinking that the media misquoted him. The bolt from the blue was...
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