The Nigerian Army and Transparency International, TI, were yesterday, locked in a war of words over claims that some military godfathers in cahoot with armed criminal gangs and foreign business mafias, illegally siphon N380 billion from Nigeria’s petroleum sector annually.

The Nigeria Army on Wednesday said it had arrested about 126 suspected Boko Haram terrorists at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Damboa, Borno.

Maiduguri – The Nigeria Army on Wednesday said it had rescued 30,000 women and children held by Boko Haram in Sambisa Forest in the last 14 months. Brig.-Gen. Victor Ezugwu, the outgoing Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division, Nigerian Army, made this known at the handover ceremony in Maiduguri. Ezegwu attributed the successes recorded […]

Nigerian troops have been told not to get involved in politics, the army said Tuesday, in a warning likely to resonate given the country’s history of coups and with the president currently abroad and ailing.

UYO—Akwa Ibom State acting Chief Judge, Justice Godwin Abraham and the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, have concluded plans to take legal action against the Nigerian Army over alleged human rights abuses.

The Nigerian Army on Sunday arrested a suspected terrorist who had been on the run at Fika Local Government Area of Yobe.

Following the threat by one of the commanders of the Boko Haram group loyal to Abubakar Shekau, swapped by the Federal Government with some Chibok girls last weekend, to bomb Abuja, the Nigerian Army says the statement was mere propaganda.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, has effected a major shake-up in the Nigerian Army High Command, with the appointment of Major-General Lucky Irabor as the new Commander, Multi-National Joint Task Force.

The Nigerian Army, 222 Battalion, Ozoro, Isoko North LGA of Delta, on Wednesday foiled attempted kidnap of Mrs Felicia Ovoh in Ozoro.

The Nigerian Army on Sunday inaugurated a semi-automated Abattoir at its Mami Market, Ashanti Barracks, Apapa in Lagos.

The 34 Field Artillery Brigade, Nigerian Army, Obinze, has said it would investigate the alleged involvement of uniformed men in the destruction of a two-storey building at 22, Ogugba Street, Owerri, last Monday.

Authorities of the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army disclosed, yesterday, that a joint security cordon-and-search operation by its troops and Department of State Services, DSS, operatives had led to the discovery of stockpiled arms and ammunition in Anambra communities.

THE 82 Division of Nigerian Army, Enugu, said it has arrested a suspect, one Mr. Abdullahi Auwal Yakubu, described by the Army as a notorious impersonator.

Two senior army officers escaped any harm as their convoy encountered and cleared four Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) buried by suspected elements of Boko Haram terrorists along their way from Bama to Gwoza on Saturday.

Abuja—DAYS after about 13 persons were killed by herdsmen in Asso village in Southern Kaduna, Nigerian Army, yesterday, began a special military exercise in the area, code-named Operation Harbin Kunama II (Scorpion Sting), to checkmate farmers and herdsmen’s clashes and ethno-religious crises.