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Daily Post Nigeria Published The Police Command in Osun State said it arrested three suspected robbers who hijacked two articulated vehicles and robbed the occupants along Osu-Ile Ife expressway in Osun. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Olawale Olokode made this known in a statement on Sunday, NAN reports. Olokode said that the suspects were arrested on Thursday at about 4.a.m by a patrol team of the Joint Task Force. “On Jan. 14, at about 4 a.m, a suspected gang, fully armed with guns an...

Translate Home » News » Navy arrest 24 oil bunkerers in Ondo, intercepts over 100,000 litres of diesel Navy arrest 24 oil bunkerers in Ondo, intercepts over 100,000 litres of diesel On By Dayo Johnson – Akure Twenty four suspected oil bunkerers have been arrested by the anti patrol team of the Nigerian Navy in Ondo state. The Commanding Officer of the Forward Operating Base, FOB of the Nigerian Navy in Igbokoda, Ondo State, Captain, Navy Shaibu Mohammed Ahmed said six b...

Punch Newspapers Sections Adelani Adepegba, Abuja THE Defence Headquarters has said that 64 insurgents were killed in Yobe State in one week during an encounter with troops. The DHQ spokesman, Maj. Gen. John Enenche, disclosed that the criminal elements met their waterloo at Gujba Local Government Area of the state and Gonan Kaji village along Damaturu-Buni Yadi road during fire fights with the troops. Addressing defence correspondents in Abuja on Thursday on the nationwide security operations ...

Rescue three kidnapped persons in Nasarawa, arrest four cultist in Plateau The Defence Headquarters, yesterday, said gunboats of Forward Operating Base, Ibaka, Akwa Ibom State, arrested two suspects and a wooden boat laden with 1,184 of 25kg bags of Yaraliva Nitrabor Fertiliser being smuggled from Cameroon during routine patrol on the Effiat waterways. It also disclosed that while fertilisers were usually for agricultural purposes, the possibility of it being acquired by criminal elements and m...

Daily Monitor Thursday December 17 2020 Summary As the Commander-in-Chief, the President has the power, sometimes with the advice of the army leadership, to appoint or designate any military officer. Advertisement President Museveni yesterday re-appointed his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba, a Lieutenant General, to command the Special Forces and tapped Maj Gen Paul Lokech as the new deputy Inspector General of Police. Maj Gen Lokech, a battle-hardened Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) commander,...

Afghan solidiers patrol in Khost Province, 2010     Before his ouster as Secretary of Defense on November 9th, Mark Esper sent a worried memo to Donald Trump stating that it was the “unanimous” recommendation of the chain of command for the war in Afghanistan that conditions were not ready for the president’s proposed US troop withdrawal. The generals charged with prosecuting the war in Afghanistan saw Trump’s recent troop drawdown order as counter-strategic folly driven purely by the...