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By Okodili Ndidi, Abuja The Nigerian Army has announced the redeployment of 11 Generals and other senior officers in a major shakeup, following the appointment of the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya. The redeployment is coming few days after 29 Generals, who are seniors to the COAS, were reportedly retired. A statement on Thursday in Abuja by the Director of Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, reads: “The...

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Malaysia’s accusation that 16 Chinese military transport aircraft had been involved in an “intrusion” near its coastline has been greeted with scepticism by analysts who questioned the practicality of carrying out the operation on such a large scale. They said that the vast distance from China’s own coast and the limited facilities available in Chinese-held parts of the disputed South...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The new Chief of Army Staff, Major General Farouk Yahaya, has paid his last respect to his predecessor, late Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru. Attahiru and other military officers died in an air crash last Friday in Kaduna. They were buried the following day. Yahaya signed the condolence register at the headquarters of the Theatre Command of Operation HADIN KAI, Maiduguri, Borno State. The command, located at Maimalari Cantonment, is responsible for counter-terro...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The new Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Farouk Yahaya officially assumed office on Friday. After he was introduced to senior officers at the Army Headquarters, he observed a one minute silence in honour of his predecessor, late Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and other late officers. The eleven military men died in an air crash last Friday evening near the Kaduna airport. “May the souls of General Ibrahim Attahiru and all other officers who died rest in perfect peace”,...

He simply referred Channels Television to the Theatre Command of the military’s counterterrorism operation in the northeast. Today’s incident is coming a week after reports emerged that Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau had been seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to avoid capture during clashes with rival Islamic State-allied jihadists in the north of the country. Shekau’s Boko Haram faction and fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) had been battli...

News From Antiwar.com Original and up-to-date news US Sends Warship Through Taiwan Strait, Escalating Tensions With Beijing China denounced the passage, calling it a threat to peace A US warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the fifth such transit of the Biden administration. The US Navy’s Seventh Fleet said the guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur made the provocative passage. A spokesman from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) denounced the US provocation on W...

Norincos PCL-181 SPH in service with PLAGFs 80th Group Army by Gabriel Dominguez & Mark Cazalet Chinese state-owned media revealed on 7 May that the China North Industries Group Corporation (Norinco) 155 mm PCL-181 wheeled self-propelled howitzer (SPH) has entered service with a brigade under the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force’s (PLAGF’s) 80th Group Army. Footage released by China Central Television (CCTV) showed the SPH being used during day- and night-time live-fire drills at an ...

Norincos PCL-181 SPH in service with PLAGFs 80th Group Army 11 May 2021 by Gabriel Dominguez & Mark Cazalet Chinese state-owned media revealed on 7 May that the China North Industries Group Corporation (Norinco) 155 mm PCL-181 wheeled self-propelled howitzer (SPH) has entered service with a brigade under the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force’s (PLAGF’s) 80th Group Army. Footage released by China Central Television (CCTV) showed the SPH being used during day- and night-time live-fire d...

Head of the commission’s zonal office in Maiduguri, Onwukwe Obiora called for the army to work with EFCC to fight money laundering and terror financing in the north east. Both sides met on Thursday during a visit to the theatre command of Operation Hadin Ka in Maiduguri. ”In carrying out our mandate the Commission ensures that movement of cash by Non-Governmental Organisations across the local governments in Borno, Yobe and some part of Adamawa states must be approved by the Zonal Office,�...