The Nigerian Army on Wednesday dismissed as ‘false’, social media reports that it had imposed restriction of movement in Maiduguri.

WARRI—THE  Nigerian Army has enjoined youths of Warri, Uvwie, and environs to promote peace always by being law abiding.

THE Nigerian Army on November 1, flagged off   “Operation Crocodile Smile Three 2018’’  in  Bayelsa  State while that of Delta  State  was  launched the next day. The ‘Operation’ is in the Niger Delta which has experienced decades of repression, abandonment, neglect,  pollution and deepening poverty despite producing oil, the  country’s  mono-culture.

Lagos—The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has admitted probing into the alleged killing of over 490 Shiites by the Nigerian Army and the police in the last four years.

The Coalition for Truth and Justice has condemned the Boko Haram attacks on Katarko, Yobe State saying the development will do nothing to strengthen the terror group’s waning influence.

THE Nigerian Army has redeployed 103 officers among who is Major General Abba Dikko,the Commander, Theatre Command of Operation Lafiya Dole.

Nigerian army has donated 9000 note books to primary schools in Delta state as part of the ongoing Operation Crocodile Smile III flagged off last week in the Niger Delta region.

LAGOS—HUMAN Rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday, petitioned the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission, to investigate the killing of 492 Shiites by the Army and the Police between 2014 and 2018.

GOVERNOR Simon Lalong of Plateau State, Monday, led a delegation of people to the Army Headquarters, Abuja, to beg the Nigerian Army not to avenge the recent gruesome murder of the former Army Chief of Administration,Major General Idris Alkali, rtd,allegedly by some indigenes of the state.

The Nigerian Army has donated food items to over 2000 flood victims in Delta in order to alleviate their plight.

The 16 Brigade of the Nigerian Army on Friday commenced `Operation Crocodile Smile III’ exercise across some states of the Niger Delta, to stem the tide of pipeline vandalism in the region.

The Nigerian army has, Wednesday, discovered the body of her missing General, Retired Major General Idris Alkali who was killed and buried in a shallow grave at a place called “No man’s land” in Lafande community of Jos, the capital of Plateau state.

The Nigerian Army said three members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) or Shi’ite sect, died on Monday at the Kugbo/Karu bridge junction during an encounter with troops in the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja

ABUJA—THE Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has explained that the military killed three members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, weekend, because they attempted to overrun soldiers who were on escort to Kaduna, with a view to carting away the ammunition and missiles they were escorting to the state.

The Nigerian Army has reacted to the confrontation that ensued between its soldiers and Shiite members in Zuba during which members of the sect were killed saying the Shiites attacked a convoy escorting ammunitions and missiles from Abuja to its Central Ammunitions Depot in Kaduna