Defence HQs releases identities, photos of soldiers murdered in Okuama, Delta State (Full list)

Seventeen soldiers (four officers among them) of the Nigerian Army on a peace-mission were on Thursday tragically killed during a clash between the Okuama and Okoloba communities in Ughelli South Local Government area of Delta State, Nigeria. Days after the gruesome murder, the Defence Headquarters said 17 personnel including the Commanding Officer of 181 Amphibious […]

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Fight breaks out as soldiers try to disarm police taskforce in Lagos (Video)

Nigerian soldiers and policemen got into a fight in public and this was caught on camera. The physical confrontation occurred Wednesday morning, January 18, at ijaya, Apongbon area of  Lagos State. The soldiers attempted to disarm a police taskforce and they put up a fight. A video shared online shows a soldier and a police officer […]

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Nigerian Army dismisses soldiers implicated in the killing of Sheik Goni Aisami

Nigerian Army has dismissed two soldiers, Lance Corporal John Gabriel with service number N/A13/69/1522 and Lance Corporal Adamu Gideon N/A13/70/6552  attached to 241 Recce Battalion, Nguru, Yobe State, after finding them guilty on two-count charge. According to the Acting Commanding Officer of the Battalion, Lt. Col. Ibrahim Abdullahi Osabo, the suspects were found guilty on […]

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Soldiers, Amotekun comb forests for killers of US-based hotelier, LAUTECH student and okada rider

Soldiers detailed with the Joint Security Task Force (JSTF) in Oyo State codenamed Operation Burst and personnel of the Amotekun Corps have started combing forests in the Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo State for criminals. The security agents were deployed after the abduction and killing of a final year student of Ladoke Akintola University […]

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Gunmen ambush soldiers in Abia, burn their patrol van

Gunmen on Friday, April 8, ambushed some soldiers at Osisioma, Tonimas junction, Aba in Abia State, and set their patrol van on fire. The gunmen who were said to be in a large number laid ambush for the soldiers at Tonimas junction axis of Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) had declared Friday, […]

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Journalism in Africa, Its Soldiers and Enemies, By Femi Falana

The mass media across the world, especially the International Co in nsortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), should be congratulated for the Pandora Papers. They leaked 11.9 million documents and 2.9 terabytes of data exposing corrupt dealings by the powerful and the global rich. The Pandora Papers which were released on October 3, 2021, exposed the […]

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Nigerian army reacts to news of attack on Igboho’s Ibadan home by suspected soldiers

Spokesperson of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, has denied that troops from the army invaded the residence of an agitator for Yoruba Nation, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho in Ibadan earlier on Thursday. Nwachukwu said he was not aware of the incident, adding that the Nigerian Army did not carry out any attack […]

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Soldiers allegedly attacked Sunday Igboho’s house in Ibadan, 2 persons killed

Two persons have been killed during an early morning attack on the residence of the Yoruba Youths Leader (YYL) and rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, in the Soka area of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, his spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, has said. “The situation now is very bad. Two Yoruba sons have been […]

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Soldiers, policemen deployed to Lekki toll plaza to prevent fresh #EndSARS protests

In what looks like an attempt to disallow another round of #EndSARS protests by the youths, armed policemen and soldiers have been deployed in the Lekki toll plaza, Lagos. Several motorists said that the security operatives were deployed around midnight, according to Punch. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Muyiwa Adejobi, did not respond to […]

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Soldiers, policemen cordon off SaharaReporters Lagos office

Soldiers and policemen have been mobilised to the Lagos office of the SaharaReporters, the online publishing platform of Omoyele Sowore, the convener of Revolution Now protest, who is currently being detained by the Department of State Services (DSS). The armed security operatives, according to an inside source, arrived the SaharaReporters premises as early as 6:00 […]

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Nigerian soldiers protest, seize Maiduguri airport

The Nigerian Army said calm has been restored at Maiduguri Airport seized for two hours on Sunday by riotous troops, that it described as ‘unscrupulous”. In a statement on Monday, Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole Theatre Command, said the protest by the soldiers happened while the command was conducting a redeployment […]

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