The Nigerian Army on Monday released 182 detainees recently cleared of any association with the Boko Haram insurgents. Lieutenant General…
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General s, on Sunday said the Nigerian Army would continue to set up court-martial…
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah, on Saturday said the Nigerian Army would tame the Boko Haram…
The report, “Stars on their shoulders. Blood on their hands: War crimes committed by the Nigerian military,” reveals that since March 2011, more than 7,000 young men and boys died in military detention and more than 1,200 people were unlawfully killed since February 2012
Minimah gave the warning while answering questions from newsmen at the monthly press briefing organised by the Directorate of Army Public Relations
The Army said during the operation, which started since last weekend, quite a number of terrorists were killed, their weapons and equipment destroyed
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Defence, Senator George Sekibo, made this known while briefing newsmen after over two hours of closed doors meeting with the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Kenneth Minimah, on the increasing spate of insurgency in the North East
He said: “It has become necessary for us to meet on quarterly basis because of the direct involvement of NAWIS in the operation currently ongoing on in the North East
Minimah said this at an event to mark the 2014 International Day of the United Nations Peacekeepers, organised by the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution in Abuja
The Managing Director of Nigerian Army Welfare Limited, Major General Bitus Kwaji, presented the cheques on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah, to the NOKs of those who died in April in Maiduguri, Borno State
Laleye said the audit was to enable the army determine whether such materials were in short supply, unserviceable or obsolete
Minimah gave the advice when he spoke with newsmen shortly after an unscheduled visit to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital