Troops of Nigerian Army 29 Task Force Brigade, Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD), deployed at Jakana, near Maiduguri on Sunday dealt a deadly blow on Boko Haram Terrorists at Mainok axis and Lambawa forest killing several of them while others ran for their lives with gun wounds. A military source disclosed that the fierce battle took […]
An Abuja High Court on Monday sentenced Maryam Sanda, the woman who stabbed her husband to death, Bilyaminu, son of a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Haliru Bello, to death by hanging. Delivering judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu, convicted her on circumstantial evidence. The killing was premeditated, the police said. The police […]
Two weeks after reports emerged that suspected Fulani herdsmen killed 12 people in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau state, about thirteen more persons are said to have been killed in a fresh attack by gunmen in Bokos Local Government Area of the state. Villagers told newsmen in Jos on Monday that the Bokos attack […]
US basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among nine people killed in a helicopter crash in the city of Calabasas, California. Bryant, 41, and Gianna, 13, were travelling in a private helicopter when it came down and burst into flames. The LA county sheriff said there were no survivors. Bryant, a five-time […]
Gunmen on Saturday attacked vehicles conveying travellers, who alighted at Rigasa railway station from Abuja, injured some of them and abducted several others. News Agency report (NAN) gathered that the attack occurred along the road linking airport road from the railway station at about 8pm. A similar attack occurred on Friday at about the same […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the deployment of fighter jets against kidnappers, bandits and cattle rustlers terrorising communities in Niger State. The communities are situated around the Dogon Gona forest, which serves as a hideout for the attackers. The forest stretches from Niger through Kaduna to Zamfara states, according to a State House statement by […]
Fighter aircraft of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) have destroyed an Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) staging area at Gashigar and taken out the terrorists’ hideouts at Tumbun Rego on the fringes of Lake Chad and at Bula Bello near the Sambisa Forest all in Borno State killing many terrorists in the strikes. […]
President Muhammadu Buhari says although it might take a bit longer, the nation will surely put the issues associated with the troubles in the Northeast in order and move ahead. Speaking while receiving Janez Lenarcic, the European Union (EU) Commissioner for Crisis Management in the State House on Friday, President Buhari said, “If we were […]
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Saturday, 24 January 2020, inaugurated the maiden Command Responsibility Course at the Air Force War College (AFWC), Makurdi in Benue State. The Command Responsibility Course 1/2020, which has 24 participants, is designed to expose the commanders and potential commanders to knowledge and skills which would enable them function effectively […]
In furtherance of the operations to rid the North east of Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists, troops of the Nigerian Army have averted a plot by terrorists to move a truck loaded with IEDs into Gamboru Ngala IDP camp which holds thousands of displaced persons and detonate it. In the encounter to foiled the plot […]