The Nigerian Army says it is worried about the low number of young people applying from the South East region to join the force in its 2025 recruitment exercise. Brigadier-General Chima Ekeator, who led the Army’s recruitment awareness team to Enugu on Sunday, said while states like Kaduna had recorded over 3,000 applications, Enugu barely managed 100. “Our people are losing what rightly belongs to them,” he said. “Each year, whenever a slot is being...

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede, has vowed that the Nigerian military will track down and eliminate notorious bandit leader Bello Turji. Speaking in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, on Thursday, Oluyede assured that troops were actively pursuing Turji and would not stop until he was taken out. “Bello Turji is on the run as we speak, and everywhere he goes, we follow him there. Let him keep running, it is just...