By Taiwo Adelu London, Oct. 26, 2019 (AltAfrica) – The Nigerian Army is set to unveil its first locally made Armoured Vehicle-Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle designed and built locally by Command Engineering Depot in collaboration with the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria. It is named EZUGWU MRAP EZUGWU MRAP, the 4×4 Armoured Vehicle ...

London, Oct 12, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The Nigerian Army says it has captured 10 suspected key Boko Haram members at Bitta in Gwoza LGA of Borno, trying to escape the troops’ sustained onslaught on them. The Nigerian Army Operations Media Coordinator, Aminu Iliyasu, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. He said that a successful ...

London, Oct. 2, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The Nigerian Army says it has stepped up operations nationwide to ensure a peaceful and conducive atmosphere for all citizens and residents during the peak of the year referred to as “Ember Months” Col. Aminu Iliyasu, Army Operations Media Coordinator disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. READ ALSO: ...

London, Sep 13, 2019 (AltAfrica)- Major-General Yusuf Ibrahim Shalangwa, Director of Nigerian Army Legal Services, has been elected new President of the African Military Law Forum (AMLF) in San Remo, Italy. Col. Sagir Musa, Acting Director, Army Public Relations, made this known in a statement. Maj General Shalangwa is a member of the Nigerian Bar ...

London, August 29, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Nigerian Army says it has initiated new operational measures to stifle and if possible completely block any source of income and livelihood of the Boko Haram insurgents including sources of food supply in a new strategy to end the decade old insurgency in the country Brig-Gen. Abdul Ibrahim, the Acting General ...

London, August 14, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Four newly acquired Mine Resistant Anti-Ambush Personnel (MRAP) Vehicles by the Nigerian Army have been deployed to the theatre of counter insurgency operations in the Northeast in a show of strength. The new acquisition were inducted on Tuesday by the The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, represented by the ...

London, August 13, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Five soldiers and two policemen working at Ibi Police Division were said to have been arrested on the order of the panel investigating the killing of three policemen and a civilian on August 6 at a check point by some Nigerian soldiers in Taraba state. Polisonline.com reports that the two policemen ...

Adesina Idris London, August 12, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The Nigerian Army is desperate to avoid reprisal attack on its personnel by members of the Nigerian police force following the killing of three Police officers by soldiers of the 93 Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Taraba State last Tuesday Consequently, the Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, ...

London, August 12, 2019 (AltAfrica)-A Deputy commissioner of police, Abba Kyari has posted on Facebook photographs of the crime scene in Taraba, where 3 police operatives and a civilian returning to Jalingo after an undercover operation were killed by some soldiers of the 93 Battalion of the Nigerian army. The photographs were published on 9 ...

London, August 11, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The Nigerian Army has said it has dismissed an officer accused of raping a student of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State at a military checkpoint along Ikare Akoko-Akungba Akoko road. READ ALSO: PRESIDENT BUHARI TO MEET SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT OVER KILLINGS The Army also said it had handed ...