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The Army’s nationwide operation raises more questions than it provides answers despite Nigeria’s struggle with insecurity. There’s something that sounds immediately sinister about the Nigerian Army’s “Operation Python Dance” simply because of its code name. Of course, the Army always tries to downplay the first impression the name creates to ease tensions about its intentions, […]
Suspected bandits have killed an unspecified number of soldiers at a forest in Doburu in the Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An online news portal, The Cable, quoted a military source as disclosing this on Saturday, saying many of his colleagues sustained injuries in the incident. He said some of the injured persons […]
The company says it is now losing £180,000 a day, because they cannot find another pilot to fly the plane after Captain Adam Dilli Ibrahim, aged 36, returned home voluntarily on another flight. Captain Ibrahim was detained for questioning, fingerprinted and photographed, before being told he would be forcibly removed — even though pilots do […]
or marching in support of Biafra, more than 30 women affiliated to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were tear-gassed, loaded into trucks and whisked off to prison. After more than 24 hours during which they were refused visits by family members, the Police moved to charge them to court for “unlawful assembly”. The […]
Prince Uche Secondus, the National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says Nigeria has lost one of its most compassionate and humane leaders in the late former President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari. econdus in a statement issued by his Media Aide, Ike Abonyi on Saturday in Abuja, said that Shagari was the last man standing among principled leaders upon whom the democratic foundation of […]
“The operations will be carried out within the next 20 days. This is according to the meeting that they held in Baga on Thursday,” said the source. “The only one of these three that they think will give them a tough time is Monguno. They feel Damasak and Abadam will be very easy. They feel […]
Former Military Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, has expressed heartfelt condolences to the family of Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, GCFR who died today. Shagari died at the National Hospital in Abuja , after a protracted illness. Babangida, one of the military officers that toppled Shagari’s government in December 1983, issued a statement of condolence, […]
While in public service, Shehu Shagari served in a ministerial post for seven times before becoming the president on October 1, 1979 reigning until December 31, 1983. He is the only known president in the Second Nigerian Republic after the termination of military rule in Nigeria. General Olusegun Obasanjo is credited as aiding the transition […]
“We also want to use this opportunity to inform Mr. Governor (Akeredolu) that tertiary institution workers are not only suffering from insecurity but this inadequate funding has resulted in the instability to pay salary, which has drastically kept members of staff in the institutions in poor conditions as many could not take care of themselves […]
Two suspects have reportedly been arrested in connection with the killing of the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh. Badeh was killed by unknown gunmen on his way back from his farm Tuesday, December 18, 2018. According to Channels TV, a police source said that the suspects were arrested on Wednesday, […]