The Nigerian Army have announced the commencement of recruitment into the Force and have called on interested Nigerians to apply. The Army, through their Facebook account, announced this development. “This is to inform the general public and all interested qualified Nigerians that recruitment into Nigerian Army has commenced. All to note that the online application…
The army officer implicated in the 2014 Ekiti State governorship election scandal, Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh, has been retired from service by authorities of the Nigerian Army. General Momoh had led a contingent of soldiers and other security agencies to Ekiti for the gubernatorial poll, in which the incumbent governor, Kayode Fayemi of the All…
The Nigerian Army has reacted to what it called “a deliberate and calculated campaign of calumny aimed at misleading the public and cause disaffection among troops” being promoted on social media by a group called ‘Eastern Radio’. In a statement issued on Sunday by Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the army…
Authorities of the Nigerian Army have announced the re-opening of the Maimalari Cantonment Mammy Market in Maiduguri, Borno State, three years after it was shut down. The market was initially closed due to deadly activities of Boko Haram sect in Maiduguri. At the launch of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Investment Initiatives for Barracks…
Men of the Nigerian Army have apprehended Secretary to the Rivers State Government, Kenneth Kobani. Kobani was arrested for alleged stalling the distribution of electoral materials at a polling unit in his area during the rerun election. According to reports reaching us, the Rivers SSG was at a RAC centre on Saturday morning and allegedly…
A top brass of the Nigerian Army has been confirmed dead after he was involved in a fatal auto accident along the Damaturu/Maiduguri road in Yobe State on Tuesday. The victim, Major-General Yusha’u Mahmood Abubakar, was the Chief of Training and Operations of the Nigerian Army. He was also the former Commander of Operation Lafiye…
The three month deadline given to the Nigerian troops by President Muhammadu Buhari to get rid of Boko Haram terrorist group from the Nigerian soil seems to be on point The Nigerian Army, on Thursday, disclosed that troops are already “clearing Boko Haram enclaves along axis of advance from Bitta to Tokumbere, Borno State.” The…
The Nigerian troops have recaptured Chibok town in Borno State after members of Boko Haram took over the remote town on Thursday. The insurgents stormed the town on Thursday and chased out Nigerian security forces. Chibok is the hometown of over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militant Islamic sect in April 2014. The girls are…
The Defence Headquarters has confirmed that three persons were killed in the military helicopter that crashed on Thursday in Yola. On Thursday night, at about 10pm, a small plane belonging to the Nigerian Air Force crash-landed near the scene of a similar incident on Monday. The Monday’s incident happened in Girei in Adamawa State. It…
Barely 48 hours after the Nigerian Army handed over 42 suspected members of Boko Haram to the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, another set of 125 suspected members of the Islamic sect have been released. At the handing over ceremony held on Saturday, November 8, 2014, in Maiduguri, Borno State, the Nigerian Army 7 Division…