CDS Urges Nigerians To Be Conscious As Boko Haram Aims At soft Targets

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Abayomi Olonisakin has urged Nigerians to be security conscious towards averting suicide bombing on soft target by Boko Haram terrorists.

Olonisakin stated this in Abuja at the 2015‎ Nigerian Navy Research and development seminar, with the theme; ‘Innovation and Research and Development (R&D): Turning Bright Ideas to Operational Solutions’.

He attributed the high rate of soft target bombings by the Boko Haram insurgents being witnessed in the past couple of months, to the increase pressure on the insurgents in the North-eastern part of the country.

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BREAKING NEWS: Tribunal upholds El-Rufai’s election

Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Kaduna, Thursday upheld Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s election.

The All Progressives Grand Alliance governorship candidate, Polycarp Danladi Gankon had on May 28, 2015 petitioned the tribunal seeking for the cancellation of the results and nullification of El-Rufai’s election.

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JUST IN... NSCDC Joins Military In Fight Against BH With 10,000 Officers

NSCDC Joins Military In Fight Against BH With 10,000 Officers

 

Following the unending onslaught of Boko Haram terrorists on Nigerians in the northeast, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) may have trained about 10,000 of its officers on how to combat terrorism.

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BREAKING NEWS! Female Suicide Bombers Attack Maiduguri Again, 22 Confirmed Dead

No fewer than 22 people have been confirmed dead following a Boko Haram attack on a community in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

According to Vanguard, the attack was carried out by three female suicide bombers, who detonated their bombs in the community this morning.

The bombers reportedly attacked the Umarari Bayan Waya area of Mulai Village in Maiduguri with Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), injuring 17 others injured.

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No Order Stopping Amaechi’s Screening, APC Insists

The All Progressives Congress has insisted that there is no court order from any part of Nigeria compelling the Senate not to screen the former River State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, as a minister.

The party came out with the position in a statement made available to Vanguard following rumours in the social media that the a member of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State, one Livingstone

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READ What NESG Want From Incoming Ministers, Others...

The stakeholders from  private and public sectors, yesterday,   moved that the incoming ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should be mandated to declare their assets as a step toward   having a transparent governance in line with the policy of the present administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari.

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