LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Defence Headquarters on Thursday said it has captured a high-profile sponsor of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN). POLITICS NIGERIA reports that although the Army did not name the arrested terror sponsor, it said nine other insurgents were apprehended in an…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the security crises confronting the country, the high command of the Nigerian Army has directed over 120 major-generals, brigadiers, colonels, lieutenants, captains and others to proceed on compulsory retirement. The affected officers, who include those who failed their Senior Staff Course Examinations, were ordered to submit their letters of voluntary retirement…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Nigerian Army has rescued a female Lieutenant, P. P. Johnson abducted by unknown gunmen terrorising the South-East part of the country. A trending video showed the officer being tortured by the gunmen after she was abducted in her hometown, Ihube. She was said to have travelled to her hometown for…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the scarcity of water for use at the Ikeja Cantonment, soldiers have started levying themselves for an immediate solution. The Nation gathered that the soldiers have suffered perennial water scarcity for over three years, no thanks to lack of power supply to pump water from the only borehole serving Blocks 1…
, Pulls Out, 32 Generals LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-All the retired Generals were personnel of the medical corps, were two Major Generals and 30 Brigadier Generals. They had voluntarily retired from the service after putting in 35 years or more of meritorious service to the nation. In his farewell remarks on behalf of other retiring…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has dismissed the social media reports alleging the complicity of its troops in the recent kidnap of the Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Samuel Kanu-Uche. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said the insinuation that…
By Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I was amused when I read of HRM Ogiame Atuwase III, donation of 52 hectares of land to 90 Amphibious Battalion of the Nigerian Army for the construction of a barracks accommodation for officers and men of the battalion in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army (NA) has dismissed a report by an online medium alleging that personnel of the Nigerian army lamented delay in payment of their January salary and that many soldiers were paid peanuts. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Friday, said the report was not…