The Nigerian military is ranked 31st in the global firepower index in 2025 and third in Africa. This marked an improvement in Nigeria’s ranking from the previous year, 2024 when it was ranked 39th in global firepower. The 2025 global firepower review considered 145 world powers (nations) with a perfect index of 0.0000. The report indicates that the USA maintained …

President Bola Tinubu has granted the Defence Headquarters and the Chief of Defence Staff the “full authority to bring to justice anybody found to have been responsible for this unconscionable crime against the Nigerian people”. Against the background of Thursday’s the killing of a Commanding Officer, two Majors, one Captain, 12 other soldiers, and one civilian while quelling a communal crisis between …

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has said the military has every reason to ensure a secure country under the current dispensation. Abubakar noted that President Bola Tinubu had provided the military with the needed equipment and resources to deliver on its constitutional mandates. With the N3.2 trillion earmarked for defence and security in the 2024 budget, …

The former Chief of General Staff to the Nigerian military regime, Lt. General Oladipo Diya (rtd.) died in the early hours of today (Sunday). He would have been 79 years old next week Monday. Between 17th November and 21st December 1997, Diya was second-in-command to General Sani Abacha when the dictator, who died mysteriously on 8th June 1998 was Head …

Nigerian troops in the northeast region have in the last two weeks received 340 Boko Haram/Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) members who surrendered due to heavy bombardment. At the bi-weekly briefing on troops’ activities and operational successes recorded in the various theatres across the country on Thursday, the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Musa Danmadami said …