Tag: military
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Insecurity: Fayemi suggests recruitment of corps members into police, military
The Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has said the number of the military and the police in the country is grossly inadequate to effectively secure Nigeria which is a large country with a huge population. The governor said this in the lecture he delivered at the Babatunde Oduyoye Annual Birthday Lecture in Ibadan on…
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Buhari to military: Don’t spare any bandit, identify and eliminate them
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the military to be more ruthless in dealing with bandits and thus restore peace to the country The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN reports that he gave the order in Katsina on Saturday while urging them “not to spare bandits’’. A statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and…
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Badeh, Alkali Were Murdered To Hide Details of Corruption In The Military–Report
A Washington-based group, International Strategic Studies Association, has stated that the death of a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, and that of a former Chief of Administration of the Nigerian Army, Maj.-Gen. Idris Alkali, was not a mere coincidence. Alkali was allegedly killed by a gang of protesting youths along…
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Military Said They’ve Lost Buhari’s Certificates, Femi Adesina Hinted Nigerians
Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says the military had admitted losing President Muhammadu Buhari’s certificate. In an interview with The Nation, Adesina was quoted as saying the issue is dead and those still discussing it are “idle”. Buhari had failed to submit his academic certificates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), claiming it is still…
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18 Soldiers killed, Scores Missing Over Boko Haram Invasion of Nigerian Military Base
Multiple military sources have separately confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that a Boko Haram gunfire which erupted at a base of Nigerian soldiers in Borno State on Monday was far greater in severity than the military publicly admitted. At least eighteen soldiers were confirmed killed, eight battling to survive at the hospital after being critically wounded…