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Friday, April 12, 2013
5 Injured As Soldiers, Civilians Clash Over Missing Cows
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Soldiers Brutally Attack VIO Men In Lagos (Photo)
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Soldiers, policemen brutalise ABSU students
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
House Of Reps To Probe Killing Of 4 Nasarawa Varsity Students By Soldiers
Monday, February 25, 2013
Students and soldiers clash at Nasarawa State University, Keffi
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Robbers kill two soldiers, injure one in Lagos
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Soldiers appeal dismissal over rape
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Kalu Wants FG To Recognise Ex-Biafran Soldiers
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Jaji bomb attack: Army arrests 16 more soldiers
Source: Punch
Military authorities have arrested 16 more soldiers in connection with the November 25 twin bombing of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State.
Some high-ranking officers were among the freshly arrested soldiers.
Also being detained in connection with the terror attacks are four civilians, including three residents of the Jaji cantonment and one outsider.
SUNDAY PUNCH investigations showed that a senior non-commission officer in the barracks was among those arrested.
A highly-placed official in the army confirmed this to our reporter in Abuja on Friday.
The source, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter said, “Apart from the first 10 arrests we made, there is an additional 16. Investigations continue on the matter.”
When our correspondent contacted the Director of Defence Information, Col. Mohammed Yerima, he said it was the army that could speak on it.
However, the Assistant Public Relations Officer of the Infantry Corps and Centre, Major E.M. Adeniyi, said he was not aware of the development.
Adeniyi, said, “What you are saying is still new to me. I don’t know this one you are talking about.
“Today (Friday) we had the graduation of some of our men: There were young officers’ corps, company commanders’ corps, commanding officers corps, senior infantry non-commissioned officers’ corps, and the infantry non-commissioned officers’ corp. In all, about 260 people graduated from the tactics wing of the Nigerian Army School of infantry.
“We also had 10 participants from Central African Republic.”
The Director of Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen Ahmed Jibril, said on Thursday that the military was holding some people in connection with the Jaji attacks but he was silent on the number of those in custody.
He said while it was true that some people were in custody, the number of those being held could only be made public when the report of the board of inquiries set up by the army and the defence headquarters had been submitted.
Both panels are being coordinated by Major-Gen. S.U Abdualkadir, who is the Head of Directorate Army Standard Evaluation at the Nigerian Army Headquarters, Abuja.
The military high command removed the Commandant of the AFCSC, Air Vice Marshal Abubakar Kure, and the Commander of the Infantry Corps and Centre, Jaji, Maj. Gen Mohammed Isah, to pave the way for unimpeded investigation into the incident.
Air Vice Marshal E.E Osim was appointed to take over from Kure while Major Gen. K.C Osuji replaces Isah.
SATURDAY PUNCH had on December 3, 2012 reported that 10 officers and soldiers had been arrested over the twin bomb blasts at Jaji.
A statement from the Director of Army Public Relations, which put the initial death toll at 11, also stated that 30 people were injured and taken to the hospital.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, had attributed the successful bombing of the military establishment to laxity.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
What Do You Think: Pakistan Offers To Train Nigerian Soldiers
A team of military officers from Pakistan will soon visit Nigeria to help assess the needs of their Nigerian counterparts and assist in training them. Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Pakistan, Ambassador Dauda Danladi, made this known to The PUNCH on Wednesday at the sideline of the ongoing D-8 summit in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Soldiers, police tackle protesting UNIABUJA students
5 hours 16 minutes ago // News | General | Soldiers, police tackle protesting UNIABUJA students
Detachments of soldiers and policemen on Tuesday morning battled to dislodge protesting students of the University of Abuja from some major streets of the federal capital.
The students had taken their protest to the streets after UNIABUJA authorities shut the school.
The authorities were reacting to the students’ protest, which disrupted activities in the institution on Monday.
The students moved to the streets of Abuja and remained overnight, demanding action on the non-accreditation of some courses in Engineering, Agriculture and Science faculties by the National Universities Commission.
Their street protest grounded Gwagwalada, the Abuja suburb where the school is located, as well as Airport Road, Abuja.
Many motorists and other road users were stranded on some roads in Abuja overnight.
More details later.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Drama in Ikare as soldiers impound Abuja-bound trailer
| credits: Stanley Ogidi
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Soldiers killed my blind father – Woman
My husband still missing –Victim
From TIMOTHY OLA, Maiduguri
The early morning wintry weather last Monday gave no inkling that tragedy loomed in the restive city of Maiduguri. As usual, a few residents, including university students and staff of the adjoining teaching hospital (UMTH) were already on the Lagos Street, the major road that leads to the two federal institutions. It was few minutes past 7 O’clock and the earlier cloudiness suddenly dissolved into a sunny morning in the Sahel Sahara and then, a loud, deafening sound.
“Wayo Allah!” (Oh, my God!) exclaimed little Amina, a primary school pupil, who appeared terrified and confused as she stood in the middle of the road around the popular Lagos House. Hell was let loose as residents ran helter-skelter, while motorists made U-turn or drove like bats out of hell, suggesting that all was not well with Yelwa, the city now known more for woes than reprieve in recent time.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Nigerian soldiers kill about 30 Boko Haram members in gun battle
Nigerian soldiers on Sunday killed about 30 suspected members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram, including a close associate of the group's leader during a gun battle in northeastern Yobe state, an army spokesman said.
"About thirty suspected Boko Haram terrorists were killed in the battle which lasted several hours," army spokesman Lieutenant Eli Lazarus said in a statement.
"In the battle, the notorious, one-eyed Bakaka, the field commander of Boko Haram in Damaturu and a close associate of Abubakar Shekau was killed," he added.
Troops of the Joint Task Force "engaged in a gun battle with the suspected terrorists" during a search and cordon operation on Boko Haram's hideout in Kandahar and around the cemeteries of Damaturu, the state capital, the statement said.
Ten suspected members of the sect arrested during the raid are helping investigators to track other senior members of the group, added the statement.
Six rifles, 90 rounds of ammunition, several telephone sets were recovered during the raid. Knives, bows, arrows, daggers and three cans of Improvised Explosive Device, which were detonated, were also confiscated, Lazarus said.
Yobe state police boss, Patrick Egbuniwe, said earlier Sunday that troops shot dead four suspected members of the Islamist sect following a raid on their hideout in Kandahar.
Islamist extremists have been blamed for more than 1,400 deaths since 2010 as part of their insurgency in northern and central Nigeria.