Tag: Nigeria
Boko Haram’s growing arms stockpile: A great concern for Lake Chad...
In the early 2010s, when Boko Haram started its hit and run attacks on military bases and personnel, it was hard to imagine that...
Six killed at southern Nigerian police station – spokesman
Armed attackers killed six people at a police station in southern Nigeria, a police spokesman said on Sunday, bringing the total number of officers...
Tears and singing as abducted Nigerian students return to parents
Nearly two months after their abduction by armed gunmen, more than two dozen students in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state were reunited with jubilant family...
NNS Lana due to arrive in Nigeria in ten days
The Nigerian Navy’s new hydrographic survey vessel NNS Lana will arrive home on 17 May, and is currently sailing from The Gambia to Ghana.
The...
Weak and tattered, 29 students freed in Nigeria’s Kaduna
Kidnappers have released the remaining 29 students they were holding captive on Wednesday, nearly two months after abducting them from a forestry college in...
More than a dozen people killed by Islamist militants in northeast...
More than a dozen people, including seven soldiers, were killed by Islamist militants in an attack in northeast Nigeria, four sources told Reuters.
The militants...
Nigerian JF-17 deliveries apparently complete
The Nigerian Air Force has apparently taken delivery of its third and final JF-17 Thunder fighter from Pakistan.
Photos emerged on social media on 29...
NIMASA helicopters nearing service entry
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has received all three of its new AW109 helicopters from Italy and is about to put...
Parents of Nigeria kidnap victims plead for government help
When Linda Peter last spoke to her daughter, the brief phone call left her relieved the teenager was alive but distraught because she could...
Nigerian women take action as rape, assault cases surge during pandemic
When Kehinde Osakede’s university closed due to COVID-19 last year, the visual arts student returned home to Lagos. A visit to a family friend...
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Joint Standing Committee on Defence shows short memory span
Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) publicly acknowledged the “exceptional leadership” of outgoing SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief General Solly Shoke last...
