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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has sought help from the United Nations Office for Counter-Terrorism, to tackle increasing threats in the country as he said bandits have morphed their methodology and now use explosive devices in their operations. Lagbaja made this known on Thursday when he …

The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a fake army general, Bolarinwa Abiodun. Abiodun was brought before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on Monday on 13 counts bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, forgery of …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained a fake Army General, Bolarinwa Oluwasegun, over an alleged N270 million scam, according to EFCC operatives assigned to the Lagos Zonal Command. In a statement, EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwujaren said the suspect, who pretended to be an Army General, told the …

The Chief of Army Staff, Faruk Yahaya, believes that bandits and insurgents thrive on publicity and they should be denied. According to the army chief, the media plays a critical role in military operations and is thus an essential partner of the Nigerian army. In a statement released by army …

The Nigerian Army says it is observing the 40th-day prayers for the late Chief of Army Staff and ten other personnel who lost their lives in a plane crash in Kaduna In a statement on Wednesday by the Director, Army Public Relations Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, the Army expressed its …

Malam Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, has made an attempt to defend President Muhammadu Buhari’s absence at the burial of General Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff, and 10 other military officers. The officers, who died in a plane crash in Kaduna on Friday, were buried in Abuja on Saturday but …

The Chief of Army Staff (c), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Burutai on Monday commissioned a pedestrian bridge that collapsed and killed three students at the Gubi Permanent Campus of the Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa University (ATBU). Speaking at the event, Lt.General Burutai said the action taken by the Nigerian Army is part …