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The army said the troops have continued to maintain momentum in the ongoing Operations Desert Sanity III to rid the ...

The army said the troops are still exploiting the bushes in continuation of the search and rescue operations to extricate ...

The troops also apprehended 67 perpetrators of oil theft and rescued 26 kidnapped hostages.

There was a shootout with some IPOB members, the army said.

The armed herders were killed by troops under the Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), which covers Nasarawa, Taraba and Benue states.

The troops also apprehended 83 perpetrators of oil theft and denied the oil thieves the estimated sum of N2.5 billion.

The rescued victims, all female, were kidnapped at different times from Karaduwa, Sayaya, Dangani and Wawar-Kaza communities of Matazu, Musawa ...

The DHQ said the military troops also arrested 152 suspected oil thieves in the last one week.

Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa hailed the military for the exercise.

Troops also destroyed an illegal refining site in Imo State.

The Nigerian Army says troops swiftly mobilised and blocked the route they suspected the terrorists would take after the abduction ...

There were reports in the media recently that frontline troops in the North-east Theatre of operations are poorly fed.

The troops also discovered and destroyed 21 dugout pits, 56 boats, 138 storage tanks, 235 cooking ovens, six pumping machines, ...

Mr Lagbaja also said the Nigerian Army would bolster the fighting spirit of troops with regular training.

Mr Lagbaja urged troops to rally together and be more resolute in bringing the nation’s adversaries to their knees and ...

The pledge came a few hours after terrorists abducted seven residents.

The Director of Defence Media Operations, Edward Buba, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja.

“Sadly, five soldiers and two Nigeria Police operatives sustained varying degrees of injuries from the IED detonated by the criminals.”

Abduction for ransom has increased in Abia State in recent times, particularly in the Umunneochi Local Government Area of the ...

The army said the operation was undertaken by troops of 5 Battalion operating under 16 Brigade on Sunday, at Azuzuama ...

DHQ says the terrorists were eliminated in North-west and North-central in the last two weeks.

Addressing the contingent, the Chief of Operations, Army, Taoreed Lagbaja, reaffirmed the commitment of Nigeria to deploy quality peacekeepers as ...

“The reason our armed forces remain so close is that the relationship is being renewed again and again since independence."

The troops also recovered three pump action guns, two locally fabricated AK 47 rifles, six locally made assorted guns and ...

The victim may have spent up to 30 days in captivity.