The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa has highlighted the need for a people-centric leadership concept as he commits to ensuring better synergy among the Nigerian Armed Forces and the civilian populace. While delivering a lecture titled ‘Nigeria’s Security and Defence Policies: My Leadership Concept for the Armed Forces’ to participants of Senior Course 46 of the Armed Forces …

Bandits have killed no fewer than four farmers and abducted over 100 others, including women and children from 14 communities in Mashegu and Rafi Local Government Areas of Niger State in the last three weeks. More than half of the victims were kidnapped while harvesting maize, beans, guinea corn and soya beans on their farms. Those killed were a traditional …

Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed scores of bandits, among them Kachalla Gudau, who commanded a group involved in kidnappings and killings in Chikun, Kachia and Kajuru Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. According to available intelligence, the incident happened on Sunday at Kankami. The report confirmed that Gudau was indeed one of those killed by the troops as …

Former Minister of Defence, Lt. General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd.) has blamed banditry and insecurity bedeviling the country on the Federal Government, accusing it of complacency and complicity. The former Chief of Army Staff recalled that few years ago he was vilified for calling on hapless Nigerians to rise up and take up arms to defend themselves, since the armed …

Security forces  have killed scores of terrorists during a clearance operation in Galbi, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. According to the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, Operation Forest Sanity, supported by assets of the Nigerian Air Force, initially ran into stiff resistance by the insurgents. But in the end, a major success …