The judge made the threat following the submission of prosecution counsel, Austin Atubu, that the witness expected to give evidence at the proceedings was not in court
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A government that is preoccupied with politics and looting hundreds of billions of dollars, ensuring the army is ill equipped and lacks motivation to protect the people deserves our full anger and rebuke
The Nigerian Army warned the media against overheating the polity by imputing politics into what it called normal and routine postings of its officers
While N59 billion was budgeted for reintegration and allowances for 30,000 militants in the Niger Delta under the Presidential Amnesty Programme, the budget for the Defence Headquarters, the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police came to N45 billion
He holds a B.Sc in Physics from the Nigerian Defence Academy and Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
Rather, the statement, signed by the Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, said the casualty figure would only be released after the military must have concluded its cordon and search operation for the fleeing Boko Haram members
A statement on Friday by the spokesman of the 7 Division, Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Dole, said the encounter with the insurgents took place along the Rimanti-Allagarno Road in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State
Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Dole, the spokesman of the division, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Maiduguri.
The witnesses said that trouble started when some CDA members, who were loyal to the association’s vice chairman, allegedly tried to wrest power from the incumbent chairman
He linked the recent attacks on travellers and villagers by suspected Boko Haram militants on highways to frustration
“The ongoing counter-insurgency efforts of the Nigerian Army to deal with the threats constituted by the violent extremist organisation in the North East have continued to yield positive results
And because all these people do not know and do not care to know; because WE ALL do not know and are too browbeaten by our self-inflicted tragedies to bother about knowing; and because he, like everybody else in his uniformed world, knows only too well that we do not know that he has no powers of arrest anywhere in our Constitution, Colonel Texas Chukwu, Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 3rd Armored Division, Maxwell Kobe Cantonment, Rukuba, Jos, recently led a troop of soldiers to the office of the Guardian in Jos
The terrorists had killed three passengers and collected unspecified amount of cash and food items during the robbery incident. Consequently, several terrorists also lost their lives during the chanced encounter with the troops
The President, who was represented by the Supervising Minister of Education, Barrister Nyesom Wike, said that though security challenges had increased in the country, the Federal Government was doing its utmost to tackle the challenges
Others are, Maj.-Gen. FM Airende, the Commander, Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers; and Maj.- Gen. HIO Ayoola, the Chief of Research and Development, Defence Headquarters
According to the Director of Defene Information (DDI), Brig Gen Chris Olukolade, the new Army Division which will be headquartered in Maiduguri, is to be headed by a General Officer Commanding (GOC) in the rank of a Major General
According to him, the operation was conducted as a result of tip-off from some good Samaritans in the city and its environs
The Army, in a statement on Tuesday by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Ibrahim Attahiru, said the report that Al-Mustapha would automatically be made a General was erroneous
The Commanding Officer, 1 Battalion, Nigerian Army, Lieutenant Colonel Sunday Ilori, told newsmen on Saturday in Birnin Kebbi that the vehicle, bearing the logo of Mobil Oil, was intercepted on July 11, in a joint operation with men of the Department of State Security
According to Umoh, the recruitment will hold at Command Secondary
School in the Nigerian Army Cantonment, Ikeja, Lagos State and the
Army Children School, Alamala Barracks, Abeokuta, Ogun State