Nigerian Army troops of Operation Hadin Kai have killed not less than ten Boko Haram terrorists that attempted to launch an audacious attack on the troops located at Rann, the headquarters of Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno State on Friday, May 28, 2021. The futile attack was launched barely few hours after the Chief of Army Staff, General Faruk Yahaya took command at the Army Headquarters in Abuja. According to a press release made available by the Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Mohammed Yerima on May 29, 2021, the terrorists who came in their numbers…
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Scores of Boko Haram fighters have been killed by troops of Operation Hadin Kai, while trying to attack Rann, the headquarters of Kala Balge Council Area of Borno State, the Nigerian Army has said. According to a statement by the Director Army Public Relations Brigadier General Mohammed Yerima, the terrorists were repelled by the troops while attempting to infiltrate the entrance to the city. The statement read, “barely hours into the tenure of the Chief of Army Staff Gen Faruk Yahaya, Boko Haram Terrorists attempted an audacious attack on troops of Operation Hadin Kai in Rann the Headquarters of Kala…
• 69 killed in herdsmen attacks, bandits abduct scores along Abuja-Kaduna road The regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), marks six years on Saturday (today). Before the emergence of the All Progressives Congress, the Peoples Democratic Party had been in power from 1999 to 2015. Saturday PUNCH reports that Buhari, the candidate of the APC, was inaugurated for his first term on May 29, 2015, after defeating former President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP in the presidential election of that year. In 2019, he was re-elected when he defeated former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the PDP. He…
The Presidency yesterday rolled out the achievements of the Buhari administration over the last six years with the recovery of N189 billion from inflated personnel budgets as one of the highlights. The recoveries were made by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) under the fight against corruption policy of the administration. The achievements were captured in a statement -The Buhari Administration at 6: Counting the Blessings One by One- issued by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina. According to Adesina, scrutiny of practices, systems and procedures of MDAs’ personnel cost from 2019…
The newly appointed Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Faruk Yahaya has assumed command at the Army Headquarters (AHQ) in Abuja as the 22nd Chief of Army Staff of the Nigerian Army on Friday, May 28, 2021. It will be recalled that Major General Faruk Yahaya was appointed the 22nd Chief of Army Staff by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, May 27, 2021 following the untimely passage of Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 other top military officers in a plane crash a week ago. According to a press release made available by the Director of Army Public…
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, has urged the new Chief of Army Staff, Major General Farouk Yahaya, to build on the legacy of his predecessor, the late Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru. Yahaya was appointed COAS following the death of Attahiru and 10 other military officers in a plane crash in Abuja on May 21. He was today hosted by Irabor at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Abuja after assuming the duty of COAS. According to the Acting Director Defence Information, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, “The CDS congratulated Maj Gen Yahaya on his appointment as the 22nd COAS, describing…
There was uneasy calm at the Defence Headquarters, Friday, as the newly appointed Chief of Army Staff, Major General Farouk Yahaya, assumed Command of the Nigerian Army. A handful of Army Generals received the Army Chief at the Quarter Guard, where he inspected a Guard of Honour. Although there was no formal handing over, the Chief of Army Staff met with the Chief of Defence Staff General Lucky Irabor, behind closed doors. Shortly after the meeting with the CDS, Yahaya went into another closed door meeting with Principal Staff Officers (PSO) and Commanders. At the meeting were the Army Chief…
The Nigeria Labour Congress has opposed the proposal by the Nigerian Governors Forum that subsidy should be removed and petrol pump prices pegged at between N380 and N408 per litre. It described the recommendation as provocative, arbitrary and insensitive to the current economic realities in the country and the extreme hardship that Nigerians, especially workers are going through. The congress stated that any increase by even one cent in the price of petroleum products, especially Premium Motor Spirit “will attract an immediate withdrawal of services by Nigerian workers all over the country without any further notice.’’ According to a communiqué…
Following allegations by the United States Department of Justice that the surety provided by a suspended aide to Ogun Governor Abidemi Rufai is a suspected fraudster, the court for the Western District of Washington at Tacoma, Rufai should remain in detention indefinitely. He is accused of being involved in $350,000 COVID-19 unemployment fraud in the United States. He was supposed to have been released on Wednesday but the court granted a motion by the US government for “a stay of the release order.” The order was granted by U.S. District Judge, Benjamin Settle. “The release order is STAYED, and the…
The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. The announcement was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, the Acting Director Defence Information. Prior to his appointment Major General Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army and the incumbent Theatre Commander of the Counter-terrorism Counter Insurgency military outfit in the North East code-named ‘Operation HADIN KAI.’