Tag: soldiers
Soldiers Attack Commander Again In Maiduguri
Soldiers have again attacked the newly posted General Officer Commanding the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army located at Maimalari…
Nyanya Blasts: No Relief Yet For Commuters
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja One week after the Nyanya, Abuja bomb blasts that left scores of people dead, commuters on the axis…
15 Out Of 100 Kidnapped Girls Escape
Reports say 15 out the 100 schoolgirls kidnapped Monday evening by heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists from a school in…
Obanikoro Denies Invading Lagos Housing Scheme
Kazeem Ugbodaga & Yisa Jamiu The Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has denied invading the Ilubirin Housing…
Stop Soldiers From Invading Lagos
The use of soldiers to stall housing projects in Lagos State is a dangerous development that could undermine our democracy…
4 Boko Haram suicide bombers killed in failed attack
Four would-be suicide bombers planning to blow up a petrol station in Maiduguri, Borno state have been killed by soldiers…
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Tight Security, Tension As PDP NEC Decides Tukur’s Fate
Hundreds of well armed police officers, soldiers and officers of Nigeria Civil Defence Corps, have been deployed in and around…
Uganda recalls Somali peacekeepers over food scam
Uganda has recalled the commander of its peacekeeping force in Somalia and almost two dozen other officers suspected of involvement…
Boko Haram: Army Arrests Orange Seller Spy With N600m
An orange seller who acts as a spy for Boko Haram has been arrested in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria. He was…
6,700 South African soldiers have AIDS
The South African army Tuesday said 8.5 percent of the country’s 79,200 soldiers have HIV/AIDS, angrily dismissing claims of a…
Police Blame Gang For Attack On Soldiers
The Commissioner of Police in the central Nigerian state of Kogi , Mr. Mohammed Katsina, says a three-man gang was…
Xmas: Crime Rate Rises
As Christmas and New Year approach, crime rate appears to have increased. Most of the motorcyclists with the backing of…
Kamene Okonjo: Nigerian soldiers arrest 63 suspects
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin About 63 people were Wednesday arrested in Ozanogogo town, Ika South local government area of Delta State by…
Soldiers Kill 3 Boko Haram Members Arrest 31
Soldiers of the Joint Military Task Force have killed three Boko Haram Islamists and recovered arms and ammunition in a…
Kaduna Bombing: Expose Terrorists Now-Makinde Tells Jonathan
The Prelate of Methodist Church Nigeria, Dr. Ola Makinde has called on the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government and all…
Tight Security As Jonathan Graces Braithwaite’s Book Launch
A horde of police officers and soldiers as well as State Security Service officials mounted security on Tuesday around the…
How soldiers broke Nigeria’s anti-America protest
Nigerian soldiers fired live rounds in the air outside a mosque in the flashpoint city of Jos on Friday to…
27 oil workers freed by Nigerian soldiers
Nigerian military forces stormed the hideout of a militant gang operating on the waters of oil-producing Cross River State and…
Justice For Citizen Olupitan-Hassan
The soul of Adewale Olupitan-Hassan, another citizen murdered by supposed law officers, is now crying for justice. Olupitan-Hassan died 29…
Robbers Kill 3 Soldiers, Snatch LG Salary
Gunmen suspected to be robbers have killed three soldiers and an accountant who were conveying salary of workers of Gulani…
Soldiers Lock Out PHCN Workers
In Abuja, military men have sealed off the Maitama District National Headquarters of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. P.M.NEWS…
Soldiers Go Wild In Lagos After Fashola’s ‘Humiliation’ Of Colonel
Soldiers went wild yesterday and attacked officers of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit at…
All Set For Edo Polls
Anxiety and tension have enveloped Benin City, capital of Edo State, Southsouth Nigeria, and other major towns as armed soldiers…
Soldiers Arrest 14 Cultists At Cemetery
Soldiers from the 13 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Calabar, Cross River State, have arrested 14 members of the KKK…
34 Die in Damaturu’s violence
Gun battles between security forces and suspected Islamists in Nigeria’s Damaturu town have killed at least 34 people, including three…
Army Deny Beating Driver To Death…Coroner’s Report Confirms Story
Following the death of a commuter bus driver, Isaac Onaiwu after he was allegedly beaten by soldiers from the Army…
Jonathan Declares Air Expo Open
President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday in Kaduna formally declared open, the 2012 Nigerian Air Force Expo. The Air Expo is an…
Military Coup In Mali… ECOWAS, EU, US, AU, France Condemn Uprising
Rebel soldiers announced early today that they have seized control of Mali after a palace attack, the Associated Press reported.…
Soldiers, SSS Block Gov Ajimobi’s Aides, Journalists
It was a show of shame Tuesday afternoon in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, southwest Nigeria as soldiers and men…
Tension In Alesa As Soldiers Kill Man
Tension is now brewing between a former lawmaker and his Alesa-Eleme people, the hosts of two refineries and muti-billion Naira…