The streets of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, returned to life, Monday, January 4, 2021, after the Christmas and New Year celebrations. This followed the return of the government task force to enforce a ban on street trading, illegal markets and motor parks, which comes with a new task force. Operatives of the task force are…
OBIANUJU CATHERINE UDEH, better known as DJ SWITCH, has denied the claim by the Nigerian Army that soldiers who fired gunshots during the EndSARS protest at Lekki Tollgate on October 20 offered water and drinks to the protesters. DJ SWITCH is insisting that she was personally threatened by the Army Officer who led the operation, and that…
Three hundred and thirty-three students of the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, are still missing, four days after terrorists attacked their school. The spokesman of the Nigerian Defence Headquarters, Brigadier-General JOHN ENENCHE said the confirmed number of missing students is based on information received as of 7PM yesterday. Brigadier-General ENENCHE who was speaking on a…
The Minister of Defence, retired General BASHIR MAGAJI, has said that the government will not hire mercenaries to fight Boko Haram terrorists in the Northeast. General MAGAJI boasted the Nigerian Military has the capacity to deal with the terrorists and bandits who are troubling the northern parts of the country. MAGAJI, who spoke on a television programme…
• NCDC Confirms 675 new Covid-19 cases The General Officer Commanding Six Division of the Nigerian Army in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Major-General JOHN OLU IREFIN, has died of Covid-19. Major-General IREFIN, who also the Land Component Commander of Operation Delta Safe, reportedly died while attending the Chief of Army Staff Conference in Abuja. The Acting Director of…
• Info Min says military lacks weapons to fight terrorists The Nigerian Defence Headquarters it is yet to confirm the United Nations’ claim that one hundred and ten people were killed by terrorists in attacks on rice farmers in Borno State over the weekend. Major General JOHN ENENCHE, who is the Defence spokesman, said as at 7AM,…