US Army researchers are working on building hi-tech body armor that would give soldiers “superhuman strength” in a real-life version of the suit featured in “Iron Man” films.

The 7 Division of Nigerian Army in Borno State is to destroy large quantities of Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, recovered during the fight against terror in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states by Operation BOYONA in the state as from tomorrow.

As public outrage over the killing of 10 squatters in a compound believed to be owned by a serving General in the Nigerian Army grows, soldiers and other security agents, who carried out the attack, as well as residents, have fled the area. This is just as the Senate has ordered a probe into the killings while the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has also set up a panel to investigate the incident.

Following continuous killings and destructive activities by the Ombatse cult and other militia cult groups in Nasarawa State which has resulted in the death of hundreds of Nigerians, the Federal Government, yesterday, ordered deployment of 800 troops to the state.

A military strike on a Boko Haram camp in Nigeria’s restive northeast last week killed 150 Islamists and 16 soldiers, an army spokesman said Wednesday.

Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State yesterday called for immediate review of the Nigerian Army regulations and the civil service rules dealing on retirement age.

A 25- year- old man, Ifeanyi Ofoegbu, was recently arrested by the Police in Bariga area of Lagos, for parading himself as a military man and terrorizing his neighborhood.

ABUJA—Barely 24 hours after Vanguard’s exclusive report about the establishment of a new Infantry Division for the Nigerian Army with headquarters in Maiduguri, the Federal Government has directed that command of the military onslaught against terrorists in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states be taken over by the Army Headquarters.

The Nigerian Army on Friday expressed its readiness to collaborate with other security agencies in Kwara to secure lives and property of the citizens.

Nigerian Army, yesterday, in Lagos, paraded 42 suspected members of Boko Haram sect arrested in their hideouts in Lagos and Ogun states.

The United Nations yesterday said it has not yet received an official notification from the Nigerian government over the country’s plan to withdraw its troops from the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, MINUSMA.

Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubike Ihejirika, yesterday, said that the Nigerian Army has recruited over 16,000 officers and men to beef up its operations within and outside the country in the last two years.

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The 3 Battallion Army, Effurun, near Warri, Delta State has arrested an oil vessel together with its 14 crew members at Bennet Island along the Warri waterways.