On Thursday, the Nigerian Army refuted claims that Turji Bello, the leader of a band of bandits, had taken one of its armoured personnel carriers hostage. The army was responding to a social media video that went viral and showed the bandit leader capturing an APC that was allegedly owned by the Nigerian Army. Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, the director of army public relations, claimed in a statement on Thursday that the video was fake....
The Eastern Security Network (IPOB/ESN), an armed offshoot of the putative Indigenous People of Biafra, attempted to attack the 34 Artillery Brigade’s Forward Operating Base at Ukwuorji, which is located along the Owerri-Onitsha motorway. The ‘irredentist fighters’ tried to attack the troops on August 20, 2023, but failed when they came under the superior firepower of the watchful troops, according to the army spokesman, Brig. General Onyema Nwachukwu. One of the fighters was neutralised by...
Along Birnin Gwari Road in Niger State, terrorists kidnapped ACM Shuaibu Umar Bashir, an officer in the Nigerian Air Force. Family sources told SaharaReporters that the terrorists also sought N10 million in ransom from the officer’s relatives within three days. The terrorists reportedly abducted ACM Bashir as he was returning to his post to resume his duties. “The military and NAF officials have declined to interact with his family. He was returning to his post...
Under the auspices of the Nigeria Hunters and Forest Security Service, about 1,200 hunters from all Local Government Areas in Osun State underwent a four-day information collecting programme. In addition, during the exercise, which was held on the campus of Ataoja School of Science in Osogbo, the trainees were engaged in the area of inter-agency relations, in order to better position them for the duty of assisting in crime prevention. The National Provost, NHFSS, Kehinde...
The ECOWAS protocol expressly forbids the overthrow of democratic governments through force. As a matter of fact, it adamantly maintains that “every accession to power must be made through free, fair, and transparent elections.” Additionally, it exudes “zero tolerance for power obtained or maintained by unconstitutional means”. In light of the aforementioned and in accordance with the authority vested in him as the Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State, President Bola Ahmed...
The leadership of Summit Oil International Limited has praised Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun for defying the seductive offer of purported financial gain made by Platform Capital’s founder, Akindele Akintoye. They also praised his insistence on upholding the law regardless of the parties involved. Recall that Akintoye was charged with bribery for allegedly paying the FIB (Force Intelligence Bureau) of the Nigerian Police Force N50 million in exchange for a promise to pay another...
The loss of numerous soldiers slain in an ambush and subsequent chopper accident in Niger State has drawn sympathy from former president Muhammadu Buhari. The Defence Headquarters reports that both ambush attacks and an evacuation chopper crash resulted in the deaths of 36 officers. President Bola Tinubu received a message from Buhari on Saturday from his spokesman, Garba Shehu, expressing his sorrow over the incident. “Following the horrible ambush in which we lost our courageous...
In the Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State, bandits stormed a secondary school and killed two teachers. The victims were a newlywed couple who worked as teachers at the BECO Comprehensive Secondary school in the Kwi hamlet of the municipal region. The event, according to eyewitnesses, occurred on Monday after school at a meeting to compile student results for distribution on Friday, August 18, during their “Speech and Prize Giving Day,” in accordance with...
Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa filed a suit against the Attorney-General of the Federation, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission, the Department of State Services, and the Nigerian Police Force, and a Federal High Court in Abuja set October 25 for judgment. Bulkachuwa reportedly stated publicly during the 9th Senate’s valedictory session that he influenced his wife, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa’s decisions while she was the President of the Court of Appeal. Between 2014 and...
On Sunday, soldiers from the Nigerian Army conducted raids on camps belonging to the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra in the state of Anambra. As part of the ‘clearance operations,’ the soldiers recovered weapons and apprehended nine individuals suspected of being criminals. In a statement released on Monday, the Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, explained that one of those individuals who were captured during the operations was an IPOB fighter, while...
