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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, …

The Nigerian Army says its troops have rescued another kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, Saratu Dauda.    276 girls were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok town, Borno.    Many of the girls have since been rescued while some remain in captivity.    The Theatre Commander, …

25-year-old Kano man, Suleiman Isah, who is married to an American woman, Janine Sanchez Reimann, 48, has joined the US Army.    It will be recalled that the couple got married on December 13, 2020, in Gasau Panshekara area of Kano State a few months after meeting via Instagram.   Taking to …

This was announced by the Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, at a media briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. run-down history lane Nwachukwu disclosed that the last Trooping and Presentation of Colours Parade for the units was conducted in 2007, and since then, new …

Incident took place in Kech district in southwestern Baluchistan province, which shares a long lawless border with Afghanistan and Iran. Pakistan’s army said attackers from Iran killed four of its border patrol soldiers. “A group of terrorists operating from Iranian side attacked a routine border patrol of Pakistani security forces …