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The Defence Headquarters said the Military Troops neutralised over 86 terrorists and arrested over 101 criminals in different operations across the country in the last week. Director, Defence Media Operations, Major-General Edward Buba, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja to newsmen while giving an update on the Military operations. According to Buba “The aim of our ongoing operations remains unchanged and clear even in the new year 2024. We aim to find and destroy the terrorist wherever they may be hiding to ensure their enduring defeat. This would deny the...

...CRUDE EQUIVALENT NIGERIA'S DAILY PRODUCTION - FOC WEST By Okosun Dennis A motor tanker vessel identified as VINNALARIS 1 Lagos has been arrested by the Nigerian Navy for oil theft. It was learnt that the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB) IGBOKODA in Ondo on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at about 10:00 pm detected through its sensor and arrested her in the early hours of Thursday, December 7, 2023, at about 3.00 am. The vessel, a 77-meter-long Motor Tanker (MT) VINNALARIS 1 LAGOS, had 17 crew members onboard at the...

...AS NPF ISSUES CERTIFICATE OF CLEARANCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH UNMAS By Okosun Dennis History was made by the Nigerian Army on Wednesday after 21 years the unfortunate bomb explosion that rocked the Ikeja Cantonment took place, as the military barracks has been certified free of any unexploded ordnances (UXOs) by the Nigerian Police Bomb Disposal Department and issued a certificate of clearance. During the closing ceremony, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Taoreed Lagbaja, who was represented by the Commander, Engineer Corps, Maj Gen Philip Eromosele was  presented a...

Forward Operations Base (FOB) of the Nigerian Navy has arrested four oil thieves suspected to be staff of a security company saddled with the responsibility of protecting pipeline, for attempted oil theft on the waterways near Itolu Community, Lekki-Lagos. It was learnt that men of the force had responded to a distress call, in the early hours of 29th August 2023, when the local youths reported gunshots in the vicinity of the community.  The arrested suspects were identified as Asonja Godday, 28, Obajimi Oluwaseyifunmi, 38, Awoowo Aribo, 35, and Oluwadaisi...

The Nigerian military troops have neutralised 28 terrorists and recovered 108 weapons and 564 ammunition in strategically deployed operations across the country. The Director of Defence, Media Operations, (DDMO), Major General Edward Buba, on Thursday in a media briefing in Abuja, said the troops would continue to respond with overwhelming military force against any group that threatens the safety of citizens and its forces. He said the conducted operations were aimed at curtailing the activities of violent extremist groups fomenting insecurity in the country. According to him, the men and...

In a sustained effort to deny oil thieves freedom of action in South-South Nigeria and protect the Oil sector from economic sabotage, the Troops of 181 Amphibious Battalion of the Nigerian Army (NA) operating in 6 Division Area of Responsibility, in conjunction with operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), as well as operatives of Tantita Security, have uncovered a major illegal oil refining site at Owahwa community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, in...