•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...
•Security agencies The military and the police have commenced a massive nationwide deployment of soldiers and police personnel ahead of the August 1 #EndBadGovernance protest planned by some youths and civil society groups. Findings by our correspondents yesterday also indicate that the security agencies, including the Nigeria Security and Civ...
•Soldiers Commuters plying the Keffi-Abuja expressway were today left stranded after military officers barricaded the highway to conduct a stop-and-search operation on vehicles entering the nation’s capital. The soldiers mounted a road block at Sani Abacha barracks before the popular AYA roundabout, reports Daily Trust. Security agencies did n...
•Troops A landmine exploded under a Nigerian military vehicle killing seven soldiers in a northeastern area where Islamic State-affiliated jihadists are active, anti-jihadist militia said yesterday. The soldiers were heading for Kukawa early Thursday when their vehicle drove over an improvised explosive device, two militia sources said. “All t...
The Anambra State Police Command has dismissed the claims that 21 soldiers were killed by gunmen in the state. There have been reports across social media since Tuesday saying that 21 soldiers who were on their way to Enugu State were rounded up and killed in Onitsha, Anambra State, on Monday evening. But while reacting […]
•Arrested soldiers with Military police The Nigerian Army, today, said it has dismissed two soldiers, Corporal Innocent Joseph, and Lance Corporal Jacob Gani, accused of stealing armoured cables at the Dangote refinery on April 14, 2024. It was earlier reported how the soldiers entered the facility in an Acura jeep but were caught at the [&hel...

