Top Nigerian military officers on Thursday met Benue state Governor, Samuel Ortom, over the killing of 12 soldiers by bandits in Konshisha local government area of the state. The Minister of Defence, Rtd Gen. Bashir Salihi Magashi who led the delegation told gov. Ortom that President Buhari is sad over the killing of soldiers. He also warned that the President Read More
There was wailing and tears Monday morning as the 12 soldiers who were ambushed and killed at Bonta, Konshisha local government area of Benue state were laid to rest. The soldiers who are from 72 Special Forces Battalion in Makurdi, according to the military authorities, were on their way to replenish their colleagues who were on the side of Oju Read More
A Civil Society for Peace and Good Governance, has commended the Nigeria Army for their professionalism by bringing the lastly peace solutions in the Benue valley. The group while commending the Nigeria Army for what it described as its “professional conduct by making sure that peace and sanity was restore in the area, despite the high level of Insecurity across Read More
One officer and 10 soldiers have been confirmed dead in Konshisha local government area of Benue state. This was disclosed in a press statement by Army spokesperson, Brigadier-General Mohammed Yerima, on Thursday night. The statement said troops came under attack while on routine operational task. The troops were initially declared missing which prompted the deployment of a joint search and Read More
About 55 out of the 66 suspects arrested on Saturday afternoon at one of the flash points in Effium community, Ohaukwu Local Government Area (LGA) of Ebonyi state by a combined team of Police and Army have reportedly escaped from custody. Blueprint gathered that their arrest was in connection to the lingering communal war between Effium and Ezza Effium community Read More
Senator Uba Sani representing Kaduna Central at the National Assembly has called on Christians in the country to see Easter as the period to pray for the healing of the nation. He said the need for prayer is because Nigeria is at the crossroads, facing huge economic and security challenges. In his Easter message to the people, the lawmaker noted Read More
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), .Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, has enjoined officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army and the general public to endeavor to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Director Army Public Relations Brig.-Gen Mohammed Yerima in a statement on Friday, said the COAS stated this when he received first shot of Covid-19 vaccine in his office. According to the Read More
The ugly trend of banditry in the North-west and a part of North-central of Nigeria continued Thursday with the criminal elements killing innocent citizens and abducting others. The affected states include Kaduna and Zamfara and Sokoto, all in the North-west, as well as Niger in the North-central Although they killed a security officer, they however lost two of their gang members in Read More
Suspected armed bandits numbering over 100 stormed Yartashar Sahabi market square during market day under Dansadau Emirate in Maru local government council of Zamfara state, Thursday, opened fire on traders killing as many other injured and set the market on fire. In a Telephone interview with Blueprint in Gusau, a resident of the village said the bandits took positions and Read More
Suspected bandits have stormed Kabasa village under Gusau local government council of Zamfara state, and killed five villagers and three soldiers including a senior officer, even as they burnt Army operational vehicle during the attack. A resident of the area identified as Malam Lawali Magami in a telephone interview with Blueprint in Gusau said the bandits besieged the village at Read More
The new Commander Army Headquarters Garrison, (AHQ GAR) Maj.- Gen. Sanusi Dahiru, has charged officers and soldiers of AHQ Garrison to key into the vision of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt-Gen Ibramim Attahiru, which is to “Have a Nigerian Army that is Repositioned to Professionally Defeat all Adversaries in a joint Environment.’’ According to a statement by deputy Read More
Gunmen have reportedly stormed the residential quatres of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), in Kaduna airport, abducting 11 persons, including a family of six and a housewife with her two children. It gathered that the gunmen invaded the quarters around 12:10 am on Saturday after gaining access through the airport’s runway 05. Confirming the attack, FAAN spokesperson, Henrietta Read More
Following recent herdsmen attack on some parts of Ogun state, Governor Dapo Abiodun has disclosed that five northern governors will hold a security meeting with him in Abeokuta on Tuesday. Abiodun made this known Monday while on the spot assessment of affected areas with security chiefs and some members of the State Executive Council. Speaking, the governor said the invited governors Read More
Abuja is under siege. Terror lives and breathes here. Citizens are kidnapped every day from their homes but sadly, some of these tragedies escape outrage and alarm. There is a false sense of security in the federal capital territory (FCT) – the flawed assumption of safety – which has enabled the atrocities of bandits in the nation’s capital to persist Read More
Congress for Human Rights in Nigeria (CHRN) has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Amnesty International (AI) to steer clear of the Armed Forces of Nigeria for allegedly taking side with Boko Haram terrorists. The human rights group, which made this known at a world press conference on Monday in Lagos, noted that the groups aim to destroy the country Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Nigerians to give the nation’s service chiefs and security agencies more time to adequately address the security issues bedeviling the country. The President in his Christmas Message to the people, called on Nigerians to support and cooperate with the service chiefs and security agencies by giving them information on the activities of criminal elements who Read More
Northern Nigeria is at the cusp of a new era. It is caught in that moment of separation between a gloomy past and the imminence of a bright future. Those who choose to look at the past would see the gloom that shaped an unfortunate era worsened by lack of capacity in leadership; while those that choose to look Read More
Nigeria is a country where citizens delight in unrewarding drudgery. As a nation, some persons believe Nigeria has no existential codes or laws, which confers on citizens the obligation of compliance. Disorderliness has deeply entrenched its roots in the country. That’s the vignettes of the bleakness of life in Nigeria. It depicts the nocturnal symbolism of bleakness or nothingness in Read More
The Association of Nigerian Professionals in Europe (ANPE) has knocked Cable News Network (CNN) over its report on the Lekki shooting, describing it as “an organised falsehood against Nigeria.” In a communique released at the end of an emergency general meeting, ANPE said it discovered that CNN’s report was not only misleading but riddled with no fewer than nine errors. The Read More
Following its report on the Lekki toll gate shooting in Lagos on October 20, Cable News Network (CNN) has been described as “the newest face of foreign destabilisation in Nigeria.” According to the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM), the American-based news television channel has elevated the agenda of the divisive and destructive forces tirelessly working in conspiracy with foreign forces against the country. Read More
The Cable Network News (CNN) is still existing in the past in today’s globalised satellite and digital Television world. Some 20 years back, CNN monopolised the awful digital news dissemination and it was the cynosure of every eye anywhere in the world, its signals perched. An unfazed and comfortable, CNN fed the world with fake news, recycling same news items Read More
The Coalition of Oduduwa Decedents has lauded the testimony of the Nigerian Army at the resumed hearing of the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution which held recently. According to a statement by the group, the testimony of the Nigerian Army was an indication that the troops have nothing to hide with regards to its intervention in the EndSARS Read More
The activities of Amnesty International in Nigeria have generated quite some debates. In some quarters, it has been argued that Amnesty International has a sinister motive with regards to its consistent attacks on the operations of the Nigerian Army in the prosecution of the Boko Haram war in North-East Nigeria. In Nigeria today, we must admit that cases of human Read More
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