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Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja, has kissed the dust. The army chief eventually submitted to the terrible reaper's resounding melody. According to sources, the deceased passed away after spending ...

Retaliatory Benin Expedition of 1897 Bandits killed 30 in northwest Nigeria attack Islamist group, 'Ansaru' attacked a camp, killed a guard and abducted seven foreign workers Kaduna Governor, Nasir El-Rufai's ...

Nigerians have taken to micro blogging platform Twitter to call out the Nigeria Army over reported military actions on Orlu, a relatively peaceful urban city with civilian population in Imo ...

The Nigerian Army has announced the commencement of online registration into 81 Regular Recruit Intake for both Trades/Non Tradesmen and women. A statement by the Nigerian Army said the online ...

Guns and 592 rounds of ammunition have been recovered by the Department of State Services (DSS) and the army in a sting operation in Ebonyi state. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that ...

The Centre for African Liberation and Socio-Economic Rights (CALSER) has rubbished reports of extra-judicial killing of six Igbo personnel in the Nigerian Army levelled against immediate past Chief of Army ...

The Nigerian Army has discredited allegations by a coalition that it conducted secret trials and executed six Igbo soldiers. A group which identified itself as a coalition of rights activists ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday made an order joining the Muslim Rights Concern Association (MURIC) in a suit challenging the Arabic inscription on the Naira note and ...

Chairperson of the Lagos state judicial panel, Doris Okuwobi has stated that there is nothing the panel can do if the Nigerian Army refuses to honor summons. This is coming ...

The Nigerian Army has disbanded its legal team and also pulled out of investigative hearing of the Lagos State Judicial Panel investigating the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Tollgate ...

The immediate past Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says he left the Nigerian Army better than he met. Buratai stated this in his valedictory speech during the ...

The recent appointment of new Service Chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari has opened a new vista in the country's security architecture. In his remark, the President thanked the outgoing Service ...

Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has narrated how former President Olusegun Obasanjo nearly retired him as a young officer in the Nigerian Army 21 years ago. ...

Atleast 127 soldiers have reportedly resigned from the Nigerian army despite the worsening security challenges the country is currently facing in some parts of the country. WITHIN NIGERIA gathered from ...

Recruitment into the Nigerian Army has assumed a new dimension with a record massive enlistment rate in the past few years. In a bid to understand the rush for enlistment, ...

...says insurgents must not be allowed to regroup

Nigerian troops regained control of a military base in the northeast hours after it was seized by jihadists, sources told AFP on Sunday. Jihadists aligned with the Islamic State militant ...

Troops of Operation TURA TAKAIBANGO, a new operation recently launched by the Army said it has killed 28 Boko Haram terrorists in an encounter at Gujba village in Gujba Local ...