LAGOS — The Civil Society and Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) says over 2,334 persons lost their lives in different bandits’ attacks in 2021, and expressed concern over the rise in cases of terrorist attacks in the country. CISLAC made its position known during a Focus Group Discussion on Barriers and Bridges to Accountability in the Defence and Security Sector organised for journalists on the security beat and advocacy groups in Lagos. CISLAC Executive Director, Auwal...

The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Benard Onyeuko said troops of Operation Hadin Kai have neutralised 37 terrorists in the Northeast. He stated this during the bi-weekly press briefing on the operational activities of the Armed Forces of Nigeria within the last two weeks, at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja. Major General Onyeuko said Twenty-One assorted arms as well as one hundred and seventeen rounds of different calibres of ammunition, and four gun trucks were...

MAIDUGURI — The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has raised the alarm that the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) is currently recruiting more fighters in the state, maintain said the ISWAP fighters are more dangerous and more funded than the Boko Haram insurgents. Zulum stated this on Wednesday when he received the Senate Committee on Army in Maiduguri, the state’s capital, noted that if the menace is not checked on time, the effect...

MAIDUGURI — Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state has urged the military to put necessary measures to avert Boko Haram or ISWAP targeting any part of the state. Zulum was speaking when he visited Gomari community and 1,000 Housing estates in Maiduguri rocked by explosions, but no death recorded. The rocket launchers were believed to have been fired by the insurgents on Saturday morning. The Governor said that the incident was avoidable, noting that there was...

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Farouk Yahaya, has ordered the troops in Niger State to go after the bandits and criminals terrorising the state and bring their corpses and weapons. COAS gave the order during a visit to the 31 Artillery Brigade and Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Minna and commissioning of the TRADOC Officers’ transit accommodation on Sunday. He said the visit afforded the opportunity to have first-hand interaction with the troops...

MAIDUGURI — Nigerian Army has confirmed that the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists during an encounter with the troops of the Joint Task Force, North East Operation HADIN KAI have killed Brigadier General, Dzarma Zirkusu, and three other officers of the Nigerian Army in Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno state. Director Army Public Relations, Onyema Nwachukwu, Brigadier General disclosed this in a statement on Saturday that said the troops of the...

ABUJA — Troops of Operation HADIN KAI operating in the North East have eliminated 31 terrorists, arrested 71, and received 1,186 surrendered insurgents in the last two weeks. Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, Acting Director, Defence Media Operations disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the operations of armed forces between Oct. 29 and Nov. 11 on Thursday in Abuja. “Two of the arrested terrorists were women logistics suppliers namely, Mrs. Aisha Umar (19) with a two-year-old child...