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Views: Visits 74 With the intensity of the daring attacks on citizenry, particularly in Northern Nigeria by terrorists group, Boko Haram, the Nigerian Army has no been forced to recall their personnel who are on study leave in various higher institutions of learning across the country. According to a memo dated May 11 and seen by Punch, the Nigerian Army Headquarters, Department of Army Training, Abuja, also suspended the sponsorship of personnel in civil institutions with the exemptio...

Advertisement The development follows a new directive by Ibrahim Attahiru, the chief of army staff. Soldiers and officers of the Nigerian army who wish to further their study are usually allowed to do so. But the new directive comes as the military needs more personnel in tackling Nigeria’s growing insecurity, particularly insurgency and banditry. Advertisement A senior officer who informed TheCable of the development on Saturday said: “The army currently lacks adequate manpower especially ...

Northern Forest 21 develops Army fires and capability in Northern Finland Army Press release Part of the Finnish Defence Forces’ main exercise, the exercise Northern Forest 21 is the most important military exercise of the Army this year. Organised in the Rovajärvi Range and Training Area as well as in the region of Sodankylä and Kittilä from 17 May to 3 June 2021, the exercise Northern Forest 21 will comprise two phases. The first phase i...

Ag. IGP Usman Alkali Baba. Photo/POLICENG The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Usman Baba, has assured the citizenry that the security challenges currently facing Nigeria will soon be over. Baba said this on Monday at the graduation ceremony of Tactical Leadership and Command Course (TLCC) 16/2021 of Police Staff College Jos. Represented by Mr Danmallam Mohammed, the DIG incharge of Training and Development, Force Headquarters, Baba said that he would ensure peace returns to all crisis are...

Views: Visits 12 The Port Harcourt Zonal Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Chief Detective Superintendent (CDS), Aliyu Naibi has said that collaboration between the EFCC and Navy remained the most important means of tackling the menace of illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria. Naibi stated this in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 while delivering a lecture to students and staff of Armed Forces Command and Staff College, ...

Is El-Rufai’s no-negotiation with kidnappers working ? By Tue May 04 2021 The abduction and brutal killing of some of the students of Greenfield University is one of the many pictures of the North that is painted in the colour of blood. Coming at a time when students abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation are yet to be released by kidnappers, it highlights the depth to which we have descended in this trench of insecurity. This, to a very scary extent, is a head-on collisi...

By Sumaila Ogbaje Abuja, April 20, 2021 The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, says the Nigerian Armed Forces is committed to deepen defence collaboration with Tanzania towards addressing security challenges facing both countries. Irabor stated this during the visit of participants of the ninth intake 2020/2021 of the Tanzanian National Defence College (TNDC) to the Defence Headquarters on Tuesday in Abuja, according to a statement by Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Ge...

While Facing Several Agitations, Nigeria Partners Tanzania to Fight Insecurity 0 likes 0 comments   The Armed Forces of Nigeria and their  Tanzanian counterparts have agreed to deepen defence collaboration to address the contemporary security challenges bedeviling both countries.  A press release by the Acting Director Defence Information, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu on ...

AVM Ebenezer Alade, Commandant of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC) Jaji, on Friday called for more synergy

Channels Television   Updated April 15, 2021 A photo released by the Nigerian Army on April 14, 2021, shows Buba Marwa and Ibrahim Attahiru addressing reporters in Abuja.   The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) is seeking collaboration with the Nigerian Army in the area of training and for professional support to boost the fight against illicit drugs and drug trafficking in the country. NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brigadier-General Buba Marwa, stated this on Wednesday w...