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The Nigerian Army has raised an alarm about fraudulent persons claiming to be conducting recruitment on its behalf, the Navy and the Air Force.   Director of Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said the fake recruitment was done by dubious individuals in the name of one Maj.-Gen. Gwabin Musa. …

A soldier has been feared dead following an attack on an army patrol van in Benin City, the Edo State capital.   Channels Television reported that the incident occurred around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, August 23, at First Junction along Akpakpava Road.   Eyewitnesses told the news channel that the …

A senior officer in the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Ibrahim .M. Ahmadu, has reportedly died while running during the Second Annual Physical Training Test for 2023.   According to SaharaReporters, Ahmadu was an Artillery Officer serving in the Army Headquarters Department of Special Services and Programme.   The General fell …

Designing ways to fight back against falsehoods that can trigger tensions, violence, or even death, the UN has been monitoring how mis- and disinformation and hate speech can attack health, security, stability as well as progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “It has become clear that business as usual …

The Nigerian army has confirmed that soldiers were killed in an ambush by bandits in Kundu, a community near Zungeru in Wushishi LGA of Niger state.    Army spokesperson, Onyema Nwachukwu confirmed the development but said did not give the number of those killed in the attack.    Nwachukwu told …

Troops from 4 Special Forces of the Nigerian Army Doma, Nasarawa State, have arrested three suspects for rail track vandalism at the Kwarra community in Keana Local Government Area of the state.    The Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 4 Special Forces Command, Doma, Maj. Joseph Afolasade, made the …

Nyeri, Kenya – This March, rains returned to the Horn of Africa after 1,000 days of one of its most punishing droughts in four decades. In Nyeri, just west of the Mount Kenya region, once expansive forests are drinking up the rains as fog hugs the high-altitude landscape like a …

Prime Minister Mikati told Palestinian President Abbas the clashes were a ‘flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty’. Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has threatened to send in the Lebanese army to the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, where fighting in recent days has killed more than a dozen people, wounded …

This is contained in a statement by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, on Tuesday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said the soldier was in custody for violation of some provisions of the Armed Forces Act, saying the said report credited to an online medium was not only a misrepresentation …

12 suspected rail track vandals have been arrested by troops of the 4 Special Forces, Doma, Nasarawa State, at Angwan Yara, Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.   Maj. Joseph Afolasade, Acting Deputy Director of Army Public Relations of the Command, disclosed this at a press briefing on Friday, …