“Operation Delta Safe”, the air component of the Nigerian military’s special task force, says it has bombarded scores of illegal oil refining sites and other bases of economic saboteurs in Rivers on Friday and Saturday. According to AVM Edward Gabkwet, the Director of the Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force, in a statement on…
At least six of the terrorists who killed its soldiers along Biu-Buni Yadi road, Borno, have been neutralised. The military high command, while disclosing this on Sunday, disclosed, revealed that the troops reinforced immediately after the incident and levelled the terrorists’ hideouts within the Timbuktu Triangle. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Major-General Edward Buba,…
The Delta State Police Command, on Friday, handed over HRM Clement Ikolo Oghenerukevwe, the traditional ruler of the Ewu Kingdom, an Urhobo Community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, to the military authorities. It would be recalled that the monarch had, on Thursday, surrendered himself to the police after being declared wanted…
Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja, on Tuesday, said that the troops of the Armed Forces of Nigeria have no plan to truncate Nigeria’s democracy, which he described as “nascent” while insisting that democracy has come to stay. Lagbaja, a Lieutenant General, while stating this in Abuja when declaring open a seminar organised by the…
No fewer than four notorious terrorist commanders have been neutralised in air strikes within the week, the Defence Headquarters has said. According to reports, the terrorists are Machika, Haro, Dan Muhammadu, and Ali Alhaji Alheri, popularly called Kachalla Ali Kawaje. In a statement by Maj-Gen. Edward Buba, the Director of Defence Media Operations, on Saturday…
Northern Senators Forum has warned president Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led leadership of the Economic Commission of West Africa State (ECOWAS) under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, against using the military force to restore democracy in Niger Republic. The lawmakers led by Sen. Abdul Ahmad Ningi (Bauchi), however, called for political and diplomatic means to…
Barely forty-eight hours to the presidential and NASS election, the police are carrying out special operations in the South-East and North-West regions of the country to decimate the activities of insurgents such as the Indigenous People of Biafra, Eastern Security Network and bandits. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force Public Relations Officer, who stated this in an…
Abu Ubaida and Mallam Yusuf Abba, Boko Haram Commanders has been killed by the military. They were killed together with about 40 of their foot soldiers at an abandoned warehouse in Kurebe, a popular community in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. A report by the military on Monday said that Abu Ubaida and…
The Military High Command on Friday, gave National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) go ahead to independently investigate a series of allegations levelled against the Armed Forces of Nigeria, by an international news Agency, Reuters. The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, who made the demand when he met the Executive Secretary of NHRC, Tony…
Authorities of the Military Pension’s Board have alerted retired ex-soldiers/military retirees not to fall victims to the purported information making the rounds in the social media claiming that MPB is to commence the verification of retired soldiers and officers on November 26, 2022. The Pensions Board noted that the purported information was lifted from the…
The leadership of bickering Aladja and Ogbe-Ijoh communities in Delta State have signed a treaty to maintain peace and order. This is as a result of military intervention which comprises Command Officer 3 Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Effurun. The Informant247 gathered that the intervention of the military into the bloody boundary dispute had…
The operatives of Operation Hadarin Daji deployed to Bakura Local Government Area of Zamfara State said they have killed 15 bandits who attacked the Sabon Gari area of the town on Tuesday 19th April 2022. The Informant247 Naija News gathered that the terrorists stormed the area and started shooting sporadically, rustling a large number of…
In order to outsmart bandits and other criminals terrorising the country, the Nigerian military is resorting to the use of robots and drones to gather intelligence. The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), through its National Center for Artificial Intelligence Robotics and Robotics (NCAIR), has joined forces with the Nigerian Army to use the modern…
