BRITAIN’s Royal Air Force plans to send three fighter jets to help in locating the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14 this year. The RAF Tornado GR4s equipped with surveillance facilities, according to Daily Mail on Wednesday, will undertake “reconnaissance missions” over the Sambissa Forest where the girls are…
HE Defence Headquarters (DHQ), on Wednesday, described the soldier who granted interview
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SaharaReporters has learned that 30 Nigerian soldiers based in Maiduguri, Borno State, this morning refused to proceed to Bama area to engage insurgents belonging to the dreaded Boko Haram sect.A military officer at Maimalari Barracks told our correspondent over the phone that the soldiers refused orders to fight on the grounds that they were not…
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) had faulted a British Newspaper report that
Exactly five days after friends and family members raised the alarm about allegedly inadequate care being given to her, Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, this evening died at the isolation unit of the Mainland Hospital in Lagos, South-West Nigeria. Dr. Adadevoh, a Senior Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist with First Consultant Medical Centre in Obalende, Lagos, had…
Six Nigerians have been quarantined in Germany and Vietnam because of suspicion of carrying Ebola virus. One Nigerian in Germany, two at Vietnam’s international airport on arrival and three students have confined to their abode for the next 21 days in the Asian country. Two Nigerians on a Qatar Airways flight to Ho Chi Minh…
An attempt to bomb the Centrex Unit of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos by a suspected Boko Haram member was yesterday foiled by security operatives. A source close to the airport said that the unidentified suspect was arrested around midday by the security operatives when he attempted…
A resident of Durwa claimed that the gunmen arrived on motorcycles and rounded up a number of people, singling out six recent arrivals from Krenuwa village who had apparently escaped a bloody Boko Haram raid a month ago.
Niger Delta ex-militants under the amnesty programme, have warned politicians against playing politics with the present insecurity situation in the country, particularly the issues of Chibok girls abduction and the Boko Haram phenomenon. Delta State Chairman, Amnesty Phase 2 ex-militants, Mr. Kingsley Muturu, told newsmen in Warri, Delta State, that the politics of Chibok girls…