•Police fire teargas at protesters in Abuja Some protesters against bad governance had a raw deal in the hands of the army, police, other security agents and even political thugs, yesterday, in Rivers, Kano and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. As the protesters actualised their vow of going ahead with the October 1 action […]...
•Soldiers Military personnel from 3 Battalion Nigerian Army Barracks at the popular Army Estate, Effurun in Uvwie, Delta State have arrested no fewer than 100 youths suspected to be internet fraudsters as the operatives stormed one HK “Hustle Kingdom” school. The facility is said to be a cybercriminal training network school in the metropolis,...
•Nigerian soldiers A mechanical engineering student with the Isa Mustapha Agwai l Polytechnic Lafia, Terhile Timothy Achinya, was allegedly beaten to death by yet-to-be-identified military men. The news of the death of Achinya has sparked outrage within and around the Polytechnic community, however, the Acting Rector of the institution, Dr. Nu...
•Fallen soldiers Three soldiers of the Nigerian Army and four personnel of the Nigeria Police Force have been killed while repelling bandits’ attack on Zamfara highway today. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Dalijan, said the bandits planned to attack a construction company working along the highway, reports Channels TV. He said jo...
•Nigerian Army The Nigerian Army has explained why it regularly publishes the names of soldiers it disengages from the service. It said soldiers’ disengagement from service is “routine and in line with laid down procedures”, reports The Nation. The Nigerian Army made the clarification in a statement in Abuja by its spokesman, Maj.-Gen Onyema N...
•Soldiers No fewer than 1,008 soldiers have resigned from the Nigerian Army. The figure was from media reports of resignations from 2020 to 2024. According to reports, in 2023, the Nigerian Army approved the retirement of no fewer than 59 soldiers, reports The PUNCH. In August this year, 196 soldiers resigned from the Nigerian Army; […]...
•Soldiers Villagers at Sabon Birnin Daji in Igabi Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State have accused soldiers of killing three persons and over 100 cows at a weekly cattle market on Sunday. Some of the villagers who spoke to our correspondent yesterday, demanded compensation, reports Daily Trust. This is just as the Nigerian Army [&helli...
•Soldiers As the #Endbadgovernance protest in Nigeria enters, Soldiers and pockets of protesters were reported to have clashed on the Abuja-Kaduna road just as Soldiers have taken over Suleja town to Forestall any break down of law and order. Our correspondent reliably gathered that during the clash along the Highway, one person was suspected ...
•Troops There was a heavy fight between miscreants in Tudun Wada Kaduna and the security operatives today, as the youths continued to emerge in large numbers, destroying properties and looting shops. It was the intervention of the military that restored sanity in the area, reports Vanguard. Before the military arrived, hundreds of miscreants h...
•Troops Motorists and other road users moving into the Abuja City Centre in the FCT now spend several minutes or hours in traffic due to military checkpoints mounted on the artery ways. Investigation by our correspondent revealed that the checkpoints hitherto abandoned by soldiers for other assignments, were resurrected on Tuesday last week, w...

