By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The acting General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division Nigerian Army Maimalari Cantonment Maiduguri, Brigadier General Abubakar G. I. Haruna has commended troops of Operation Hadin Kai JTF North East Theater Command for their sacrifices and efforts in the counter insurgency fight in Borno...
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The Minister of Defence, Muhammad Badaru, has said that the military operatives in the last few months killed no fewer than seven top leaders of the insurgency in the country. The minister said this in an interview with newsmen after addressing the members of Senior Course 46 of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has said his administration cannot do more regarding distributing food items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and vulnerable residents. Zulum stated this in Mafa on Sunday while addressing a group of IDPs, who have protested, threatening to go...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has assured victims of Boko Haram insurgency that the sate government will support locally based humanitarian organizations as collaborating partners in the peace rebuilding, transformation and development plans and processes . The state’s Commissioner of Women Affairs and Social Development,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has facilitated the execution of 8 projects including a school, orphanage, clinic, shops, staff quarters, sports ground, charity office and a Jumam’at mosque by the Qatar Charity Foundation in Maiduguri. The governor discussed this today Sunday while laying...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commissioned 500 resettlement houses for internally displaced persons (IDPs) on Sunday in Logumani community of Ngala LGA of the state. The newly constructed Logumani community made up of units of two-bedroom semi-detached low-cost houses, with basic amenities...
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have killed Pastor Luka Levong of the Church of Christ In Nations (COCIN) in Kwari, Geidam Local Government Area of Yobe state. The attackers also killed five others. Some residents who evacuated the corpses to the Specialist Hospital Geidam told newsmen that the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development Maiduguri has organized a one day training workshop on transitional justice, reconciliation and reintegration for Mafa Community stakeholders on Thursday at Hajja Manga Memorial Hall Giwa Barrack Area Maiduguri. The facilitator of the training, Dr....
The Minister of Defence, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, on Tuesday, paid an operational visit to the Theatre Command, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) in Maiduguri. Abubakar was accompanied in the visit by the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Mattawalle, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, Chief...
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have attacked the convoy of Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni along Maiduguri-Dramaturg Road, killing two policemen and injuring two others. The attack took place on Saturday after the governor attended the 24th convocation of the University of Maiduguri, Borno State. According to...
Defence Headquarters says troops of the Nigerian armed forces have eliminated 52 terrorists, apprehended 60 and rescued 61 kidnapped hostages in different operations between Sept. 15 and Sept. 22. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Buba said...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja has carried out an operational tour to assess the security situation and reinvigorate ongoing counter operations being conducted by troops of Joint Task Force Operation HADIN KAI in the North East Theater. ...
The Multinational Joint Tasks Force (MNJTF) combating insurgency in the Lake Chad region said it has continued to record mass surrender of insurgents. A statement on Saturday by the spokesman of the task force, Lt.-Col. Abubakar Abdullahi, said the development was due to the intensified kinetic and non-kinetic...
Gov. Mai Mala Buni of Yobe, has said that the careful selection of new security chiefs by President Bola Tinubu would get Nigeria closer to the end of security challenges.buniBunu Buni stated this in a statement by his Director-General, Press and Media Affairs, Alhaji Mamman Mohammed, on Saturday in...
For years, Boko Haram insurgents waged a violent war in Borno and other parts of Northeastern part of the country with threats to extend their rage to Abuja, the federal capital. But Nigeria military, particularly under the immediate past president, Muhammadu Buhari, fought gallantly crushing the insurgents and reclaiming...
Some stakeholders in North East have commended the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for degrading insurgents and improving security situation in the region. A cross section of the stakeholders who spoke to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states known as the worst affected states...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.- Gen. Faruk Yahaya, on Wednesday assured that the Nigerian Army has the capacity to contain insurgency and deal with other criminal elements in the country. The COAS gave the assurance during combat training and exhibition of firing power, organised for Infantry and...
The Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS), on Monday in Abuja emphasised the need for urgent actions against the increased terrorist activities in the Central Sahel. The ECOWAS Commissioner in charge of Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Amb. AbdelFateh Moussa, made the call at a five-day training. It...
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has asserted that Nigerians should not hold the President Muhammadu Buhari administration responsible for not rescuing all the kidnapped Chibok Girls. It is like a self-accounting when you are exiting a position of public office to be humble...
Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 19 people and burned a medical facility in a raid on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo early on Sunday, two regional officials and a resident said. The attack, which occurred around 1 a.m. (2300 GMT) in the village of Kirindera...