Hussaini Kafi in Kano Four Cameroonian soldiers have been killed, and one critically injured in a brazen attack by suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters in Fotokol, a border town in the far north of Cameroon, military sources confirmed on Tuesday. The assault, which occurred in the early hours of Monday, saw the…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano The Nigerian Army has dismissed as false and malicious an audio circulating on social media alleging a violent clash between its troops under Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) and the Operation Zenda Joint Task Force (JTF) in Makurdi, Benue State. The viral recording also falsely claimed that military personnel had released a…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have killed a notorious Boko Haram/ISWAP commander, Malam Jidda, and scores of his fighters during coordinated ground and air offensives in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. The terrorists’ kingpin, who was said to be the Ameer of Ngorgore and Malumti villages, met his end…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano A former Chief of Army Staff and ex-Nigerian Ambassador to Benin Republic, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), has debunked reports claiming he was attacked by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State. Reacting through a statement issued on Monday by his spokesman and former Army spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman (retd.), Buratai…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano The Defence Headquarters has said that troops of the Armed Forces of Nigeria have killed 151 terrorists and rescued 154 kidnap victims in various operations across the country in the last week. It said 296 suspects were arrested for terrorism, oil theft, and gunrunning, among other crimes. The operations were conducted…
Korede Abdullah in Lagos The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned a former staff of the Court of Appeal, Munirat Abdulazeez, over alleged job racketeering involving fake employment offers with key government agencies. According to a statement signed by the Spokesperson for the Commission on Saturday, Demola Bakare, Abdulazeez was…
The Nigerian armed forces has celebrated a major defeat of terrorists in the north east of the country. Disclosing this to the media in a statement in which it described as a significant military operation, the defence headquarters stated that troops of Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) have successfully foiled terrorist attacks on Buratai, Biu Local…
Justice A. Owoeye of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, adjourned till October 23, 2025 further hearing in the alleged N1.38bn fraud involving Jude Chigozie Okoye, elder brother and former Manager of Paul and Peter Okoye. At the resumed sitting on Wednesday, the first prosecution witness, PW1, Peter Obumuneme…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a fake Journalist, Ernesto Chukwudum Chukwukamma for alleged extortion, impersonation and obtaining N2,000,000.00 (Two Million Naira) under false pretence to influence the investigation of the sum of $4,500,000,000.00 (Four Billion, Five Hundred Million United States Dollars) alleged Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, Fraud. Chukwukamma, 63, was arrested…
Korede Abdullah in Lagos In a coordinated operation hailed as a “momentous development,” troops of Sector 5, Operation UDO KA, alongside personnel from 63 Brigade and the Department of State Services (DSS), intercepted a truck carrying 164,650 live cartridges and arrested two alleged logistics suppliers linked to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and…
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