Tag: Tukur Buratai

The army chief spoke in Ogun State.

The government did not say whether relatives of the victims were given opportunity to identify and recover their loved ones ...

On December 12, armed soldiers clashed with members of the sect in Zaria, Kaduna State.

The movement says the panel is not well constituted.

The army says the office will receive and treat complaints against its operations.

Mr. Buratai said 12,000 personnel would be recruited in 2016 to man the new divisions.

The commission has set up a five-member panel to investigate the killings.

The two arms of the legislature set up committees to investigate the clash that led to several deaths.

Several lives were reportedly lost during a clash between the Army and Shiites on Saturday.

"...over the years this group has subjected ordinary citizens using public roads to untold hardship."

Sect says hundreds of its members killed during the siege

The committee is expected to submit its report on December 4.

Four brigadiers-general and a colonel are to serve as members and secretary of the panel​.​

The Army chief commended the troops for successes recorded so far.

The army chief published phone lines for people to discreetly report the whereabouts of Boko Haram members.

Mr. Buratai says the decoration is part of the military's tradition to motivate its personnel.

The army says the location of the new brigade is strategic to ending insurgency.

South Korean Defence Attaché to Nigeria says Nigeria's current security challenges are not peculiar.

The wounded soldiers are responding to treatment.

The military says it certified that the detainees had no link to Boko Haram.

The review of cases are still ongoing.

One soldier died during a daring trip by the army chief.

The Chief of Army Staff says the army will promote the unity of Nigeria.

A soldier was on Tuesday night killed in Buratai Village of Borno State during a shootout as gunmen suspected to be Boko ...