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Insecurity: Suspected Deadly Terrorists Arrested In Lagos

August 10, 2022 5:28 am

A yet-to-be-identified number of persons suspected to be terrorists causing havoc in parts of the country were on Tuesday nabbed by members of the Nigerian army in Lagos State.

Accorrding to reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York, the suspects who wore military camouflage and other accouterments were arrested in different parts of the state following a raid.

The suspected terrorists were reported to have been drafted by their sponsors to survey some areas in Lagos for possible attacks.

The arrests, according to reports, were made by the Department of State Service, DSS and the 81 Division …

Cameroonian Seperatists Did Not Invade Nigeria, Army Insists

May 31, 2022 4:46 am

The Nigerian Army has described as false, viral reports on social media that insinuate that Nigerian villages were attacked by Cameroonian (Ambazonian) separatists on 29 May 2022 without any form of resistance.

A statement by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu on Tuesday said, ‘Contrary to the misinformation, own troops deployed at Danare received information on Sunday morning about the said attack.

‘The troops immediately mobilised to Bashu community, which was allegedly under attack.’

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He went on to add that; ‘On their arrival, it was …

Army Debunks Report Of BH Giving Ramadan Packages To Residents

May 14, 2021 7:46 am

Nigerian Army has refuted media reports making the rounds online say that Boko Haram had distributed Ramadan welfare packages to some residents of Borno and Yobe States.

Army spokesman Mohammed Yerima in a statement said the article did not mention any specific location where the alleged distribution took place.

Yerima said said “The NA being a professional organisation decided to look at the article with every seriousness with a view to making intelligence out of it.

“However, our analysis established that there was nothing substantial about the claim except that it was a hurriedly packaged piece of propaganda that was …

The Cameroon government has been battling armed separatists in English-speaking regions since October 2017

Cameroon Army Blames Accident For Village ‘Massacre’

February 17, 2020 1:12 pm

Cameroon’s army on Monday denied opposition charges that it had massacred villagers in a restive anglophone region, blaming instead an “unfortunate accident” caused by an explosion of fuel during a firefight.

Up to 22 civilians, 14 of them children, died in the incident on Friday, according to the United Nations — deaths which opposition parties blamed on members of the armed forces.

But army spokesman Colonel Cyrille Atonfack Guemo described the allegations as “duplicitous”.

An army investigation found that the deaths happened when fuel exploded in an exchange of gunfire with anglophone separatists and caused a fire, he said.

Five …

Army: Video Of B/Haram Killing Soldiers Fabricated By IPOB

December 12, 2019 11:41 am

PRESS RELEASE

VIDEO CLIP PORTRAYING THE ALLEGE CAPTURE AND KILLING OF SOME NIGERIAN SOLDIERS BY BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS ON 10 DECEMBER 2019 IS FALSE

The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a viral, unsubstantiated and apparently fabricated video clip circulating on the social media portraying the stage managed/so called capture and killing of some Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram terrorists on the 10th of December 2019.

The Nigerian Army wishes to emphatically state that there was no incident that involved the “capture and killing of tens and tens of Nigerian soldiers on the 10th of December 2019” …