ShareThis Edo State branch of the National Conscience Party (NCP) has strongly denounced the partisanship of the Army deployed to Otuo in Owan East Local Government Area of the state, saying that it poses grave danger to Nigeria’s cohesion. In a press statement signed by its Chairman, Comrade Victor Edward Ogba and Secretary, Maxwell Amen [...]
THE fear of Boko Haram creeping beyond its base in the north into the south, especially the South-South may be extant as the Nigerian Army has said it has deployed strategies to tackle the infiltration of the sect to the region, beginning with the inauguration of operation Quick Response Group (QRG) on Thursday at 3rd [...]
Despite the amnesty programme that was granted militants in the Niger Delta, which led to the disarmament of many various groups, a regrouping militancy camp located in the creeks of Delta State was, on Tuesday, demolished by the Joint Task Force, under the 19 Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Koko, Warri North Local Government. [...]
IN their relentless efforts to rid the creeks of illegal oil bunkering and its variants as mandated by the presidency, men of the 3rd Battalion, Sector 1, Operation Pulo Shield of the Nigerian Army, Effurun, Delta State, on Tuesday, nabbed two young men with boats loaded with five drums of diesel each at the Warri [...]
By By JULHAS ALAM, Associated Press – 13 minutes ago DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities deployed soldiers in a northern Bangladeshi district on Sunday after Islamic party activists clashed with police, leaving five people dead during a nationwide general strike called to denounce war crimes trials. Seven people died in similar clashes in the northwest, [...]
With the latest casualties, the death toll in days of rioting has risen to 51 since Thursday after a war crimes tribunal sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami party leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee to death for atrocities committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan. Sayedee, 73, is the third defendant to be convicted by the tribunal, which was [...]
(AP) – 34 minutes ago DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Soldiers have been deployed in a northern Bangladeshi district after activists of the country’s largest Islamic party clashed with police, leaving three people dead during a nationwide general strike called to denounce an ongoing war crimes trial. The Daily Star newspaper quoted police official Mokbul Hossain [...]
Over the last two days, clashes have erupted between the army and militants around Konna, a sleepy mud-brick village that for months had marked the outer limit of the Malian Army’s control after it lost half of the country to Islamists and their allies last April. On Thursday, though, the town appeared to have fallen [...]
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Hundreds of civilians suspected of backing Ivory Coast's former president have been swept up in mass arrests and abused by the army, dealing a major setback to efforts to heal divisions after a decade of crisis, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Years of political deadlock in Ivory Coast ended in a brief post-election civil war last year, caused by President Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to accept his defeat at the polls. Gbagbo is now in The Hague charged with crimes against humanity. …
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) – The Lebanese army has arranged a ceasefire on Tuesday in the northern city of Tripoli after two nights of fighting between Sunni and Alawite gunmen loyal to different sides in the war in neighbouring Syria, a military source said. At least 10 people have been killed and 65 wounded in clashes in Tripoli despite a heavy deployment of troops backed by tanks and armoured personnel carriers. …
Fresh sectarian violence erupted in Lebanon on Monday, stoking fears about the stability of the country after a top security official was killed in a car bombing blamed on neighbouring Syria.
THE Nigeria Army yesterday pledged to defend the country’s democracy and its institutions just as it called on Nigerians to be united against insecurity. It said that all citizens must join hands to rid the country of insecurity, just as Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State described the army as the strongest defender of democracy. [...]
A fake Army Lieutenant, Goodluck Furupagha who specialises in duping unsuspecting applicants wishing to join the Nigeria Army was yesterday arrested in Benin, the Edo State capital. Luck ran out on Goodluck who collects between N200, 000 to N300, 000 from applicants before he was arrested by 3 battalion troops of the 4th Brigade Nigeria [...]
The 4 Brigade, Nigerian Army Benin, has paraded 16 students for allegedly being in possession of Nigerian Army uniforms and accoutrements. Cpt. Roseline Managbe, the brigade’s Public Relations Officer, told newsmen on Friday that the suspects claimed to be students of the Delta State University, Abraka and Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, all Delta state. She said [...]
Chief of Army Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika The Nigeria Army, 4th Brigade Command on Friday paraded 16 students arrested for being in possession of Nigerian Army uniforms and accoutrements.Those arrested included four students from the Delta State University, Asaba campus and 12 students from the Delta State University, Ugwuashi-Uku Aniocha South Local Government Area of the [...]
Posted August 14, 2012 06:50:03 In what could be a major coup for the Syrian opposition, rebels claim to have shot down a regime fighter plane and captured the pilot. The claims come as the regime appears to have seized the upper hand in Aleppo, while shocking videos have emerged showing alleged rebel atrocities in [...]
MEN of the 3rd battalion, Effurun, Delta State at the weekend raided institutions in the state where certain organisations claiming to be offshoot of the Nigeria Army operate. The members of the purported organisations wear full army gear. Over 14 members of the organisations were arrested including their leader The commanding officer of the battalion, [...]
Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Azubuike Ihejirika | credits: The Kogi State Army Commandant of Quick Respond Group Team, Maj. Gen. Alphonsus Chukwu, on Sunday said the team rescued no fewer than 300 human trafficking victims. Speaking during a media briefing in Lokoja, he said the victims, who came from Benue State, were rescued along [...]
KOKRAJHAR, India (Reuters) – Indian security forces patrolled deserted streets on Wednesday after days of ethnic riots in Assam state killed at least 36 people, forced tens of thousands to flee their razed homes and shut down road and rail transport. The government deployed about 1,000 soldiers to restore calm after police struggled to quell waves of violence between Bodo tribespeople and Muslim settlers in the remote northeast of the country. The clashes first erupted at the weekend. …
GUWAHATI: As the death toll in the ongoing ethnic clash in Assam climbed to 36, the Army was called in on Wednesday to help the state administration contain the violence in the four affected districts of Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Chirang and Bongaigaon. Defence spokesman Lt Col SS Phogat said that 13,000 troops have been deployed in [...]
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Divide Nigeria Peacefully OR by Civil War
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