The President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has been called upon to overhaul the country’s security agencies, especially the Nigerian Army, in its initiative towards finding lasting solutions in some volatile areas of the country. The chairman, Muslim, Christian Peace Movement MCPM, Ambassador Garba
President-elect, Major General Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to resume military training with the United States as part of a comprehensive effort to end terrorism in Nigeria. The incoming Federal Government will also work with Nigeria’s neighbours in rooting out the Boko Haram sect from the region. General Buhari made the pledge in an opinion […]
The Department of State Security (DSS), is investigating two journalists working with Doha-based international television, Al Jazeera,for allegedly spyingon military operational areas. The two Nigerian-born journalists, detained by the military, were released to the Department of State Security (DSS) on Saturday. Ahmed Idris and Ali Mustapha were picked up by
I was recently a guest on a radio talk show. I was to discuss the Nigerian government’s inability, thus far, to contain and defeat the Boko Haram. At one point, the talk show host asked my opinion on the court marshal of mutinous Nigerian soldiers who heckled their divisional commander and shot at him. My […]
The Nigeria Army in Gombe on Monday foiled what would have been a major attack by fleeing members of the Boko Haram. In the encounter, a card reader was found and seized from the insurgents. For about an hour, the soldiers engaged the insurgents in gun battle at a military check point in Dukku in […]
The Nigerian Army has foiled an attack by some members of the Boko Haram terrorist group in Gombe State, North-East Nigeria, killing 3 of them in the process. While parading the corpses of the insurgents before reporters at the army barracks in Gombe, the state capital, the spokesperson of the 301 Artillery regiment said one […]
I watched the recent CNN segment on the Boko Haram terror vis-a-vis the state of the Nigerian armed forces; and I was appalled at CNN, appalled at the misguided ‘soldiers’ that granted them the interview; and thus concluded that CNN has, in relation to Nigeria, changed its name to ‘Celebrating Negative News’. I wager that […]
The Federal Government is committed to reclaiming territories under the control of Boko Haram and crush the terrorist group. This view was expressed, on Thursday, by Vice-President, Arc. Namandi Sambo, in an interactive session with reporters, in Kano. He said that the Boko Haram insurgency was a new kind of crisis, but was gratified that […]
Maj.-Gen. Lamidi Adeosun, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, has said that in spite of challenges, terrorism will not defeat the Nigerian Armed Forces. Adeosun stated this when he received a team of newsmen on tour of communities recently recaptured from the Boko Haram insurgents in his office in Maiduguri. “Terrorism […]
