A group of youths have urged the Coalition of Concerned Nigeria Security Experts CCNSE to join efforts with the leadership of the country’s Armed Forces to proffer solutions to the menace of lingering insecurity. The youths, under the aegis of Youths For Sustainable Nigeria YFSN, who in a statement, solicited...
The French Government has expressed willingness to offer the Nigerian Navy, NN, its full cooperation, to tackle piracy and other forms of insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea. on Wednesday France Defence Attaché to Nigeria, Col. Nicolas Rambaud made this known on Wednesday, when he met with officials of the...
The Chief of Army Staff COAS, Lt Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, has vowed to crack down on Asari Dokubo and Sunday Igboho, promoters of Biafra and Odudua Republics respectively, as well as other agitators in the country. The COAS, who made this vow while delivering a lecture during the first Commanding...
The Chief of Army Staff COAS, Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru, has expressed optimism that Nigeria will overcome all the security challenges with which she is currently being confronted. The Army Chief expressed his optimism at the occasion of the Nigerian Army's 2021 edition of the Commanding Officers' Workshop which took place...
The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee has summoned the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru to review the purchase, use and control of arms, ammunition and related hardware by military, paramilitary and other law enforcement...
The Defence Headquarters DHQ has been lauded for its National Defence and Security Summit initiative that held in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The Unity Advocacy Group UAG, which gave the commendation in a statement, described it as timely action. TheFact Nigeria reports that the summit, which was attended by State Governor’s,...
​The Minister of Defence, Major General Salihi Magashi (rtd), has said that Nigeria is in a critical situation following resurging terrorists’ attacks, banditry and abductions across the nation. Magashi made this disclosure during his speech at a National Defence and Security Summit organized by the Defence Headquarters with the theme...
The Minister of Defence, Major General Salihi Magashi (rtd), has said that Nigeria is in a critical situation following resurging terrorists’ attacks, banditry and abductions across the nation. Magashi made this disclosure during his speech at a National Defence and Security Summit organized by the Defence Headquarters with the theme...
The Defence Headquarters DHQ has launched an investigation into claims by an activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, that some soldiers were deployed to spy on his residence in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. This was confirmed in a statement yesterday by the Acting Director, Directorate of Defence Media...
The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NiDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa has solicited a partnership between NiDCOM and the Defence Headquarters DHQ towards hosting its forthcoming Diaspora conference on national security. The NiDCOM boss made this known, when she visited the Chief of Defence Staff CDS, General Lucky Irabor at...