Tag: Jtf
Oil theft: JTF Commander pleads for more gunboats
The JTF Commander in Bayelsa, Major General Emmanuel Atewe, on Saturday appealed to the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-…
JTF, Police repel pirates’ attack in Bayelsa
The Joint Task Force (JTF) and Police in Niger Delta said on Thursday it repelled attack by suspected pirates on…
JTF warns vessel owners against oil thieves
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta on Saturday warned owners of vessels and tankers against allowing the…
JTF shuts illegal refineries, dismantles militant camp
The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield today dismantled a militant camp in Bakassi Local Government…
Counter terrorism: Nigerian forces abort plot, kill 2 suspects
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigerian forces in Kano, northwest Nigeria, Tuesday evening confirmed the death of two terrorists and the arrest of…
32 Boko Haram terrorists killed in counter-attacks
Nigeria’s Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) has confirmed the killing of 32 Boko Haram militants after…
3 suspected terrorists killed
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Three suspected terrorists were killed in a pre-dawn raid jointly carried out by soldiers and agents of Department…
7 Boko Haram members arrested, bomb factories busted
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Seven suspected members of the Islamic Boko Haram members were arrested by the Joint Task Force who also…
Boko Haram commander killed by Nigerian troops
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) on Saturday confirmed the killing of a suspected Boko Haram…
Baga Massacre: Too Little, Too Late
The media was awashed this week with news of a mass murder, arson and outright brigandage perpetrated in the fishing…
Boko Haram commander killed
Nigerian troops claimed they killed a suspected commander of the Boko Haram and three of his lieutenants during an operation…
JTF Hands over 18 Oil Thieves to EFCC
The Joint Task Force, JTF of 4 Brigade Nigerian Army, Benin has handed over 18 suspected oil thieves to the…
Kano Emir: 3 suspects arrested, 2 declared wanted
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigeria’s security agencies in Kano, northwest Nigeria, have made head-way into the investigation over the attack on the…
Nigerian troops kill Boko Haram militants
Nigeria’s special military task force, fighting Boko Haram terrorism has reported yet another success in its campaign, with the destruction…
Secret Killings In Nigeria’s North
By Maduabuchi Nmeribeh Terrorists, widely believed to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic sect, resort to clandestine killing…
12 killed in Nigeria’s most dangerous state
Twelve persons were killed by gunmen across the Nigerian north east state of Borno—all in a day, further cementing its…
Nigeria’s anti-terror war meant to kill muslims, alleges Gumi
A controversial Nigerian Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abubakar Ahmad Gumi has described the military campaign against Boko Haram terrorists as a…
Nigeria nabs 28 terror suspects
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Security forces in Kano, northwest Nigeria have renewed raid on hideouts of terrorists recording 28 arrests within the…
Boko Haram: ‘We did not kill General Shuwa”
Nigeria’s dreaded insurgency group, Boko Haram, has denied involvement in the killing Major General Muhammed Shuwa, a Nigerian civil war…
Reports: Exodus of men from Maiduguri
Many people, especially men are deserting Nigeria’s troubled city, Maiduguri, after the murder yesterday of a retired senior military officer…
Nigerian soldiers massacre 40 in Maiduguri
No fewer than forty people have been summarily executed by Nigerian soldiers in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state. The soldiers,…
4 Boko Haram suspects killed
Nigerian soldiers on Sunday shot dead four suspected members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram following a raid on their…
4 Boko Haram suspects killed, 3 Arrested in raids
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order said on Saturday that it had killed four and arrested three…
50 illegal refineries destroyed in Nigeria
JETHRO IBILEKE, Benin Determined to rid the rid the Niger Delta region of all forms of criminality, men of…
5 Boko Haram suspects killed in attack on troops
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said on Saturday that it killed five suspected terrorists after…
Disaster averted as bomb laden car arrested
Nigeria’s Borno Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said on Tuesday that it had intercepted a bomb-laden…
Eid-el-Fitri: Jos, Kano spared by terrorists
Jos, the Plateau state capital, was calm and peaceful today as Muslims celebrated the Eid-el-Fitr festival to mark the end…
Damaturu residents flee besieged town
Hundreds of residents of Damaturu in Yobe state fled Tuesday after arrests by troops and rumours of new attacks by…
Peace elusive as banker shot dead in Maiduguri
Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria’s Borno state continues to cement its status as the killing capital of Nigeria, with the gruesome…
Nigeria troops intercept rocket launchers, bombs, rifles
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) on Tuesday said it intercepted rocket launchers, rocket bombs and…