Russia has signed agreements for military cooperation with over 40 African countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Friday in St Petersburg. “For the purposes of bolstering the defence capability of the continent’s countries, we are developing partnerships in the military and military-technical spheres,” Putin said during the second and final day of the second…
The former leader of the now-disbanded Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Asari Dokubo has pointed fingers at the military high command for involvement in oil bunkering activities in the Niger Delta region. Dokubo made these accusations during a meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Naija…
Military airstrikes aimed at neutralizing bandits had mistakenly killed 11 soldiers and seven villagers with two soldiers and over 70 villagers sustaining various degrees of injuries in Malele and Mutungi communities of Zamfara State. According to an eye witness, Nuhu Dansadau, the bandits had on Saturday invaded Malele community of Dansadau Emirate in Maru Local…
As part of the Lagos State Government efforts to eliminate traffic gridlock and curb illegal extortion along the Apapa/Tin-Can port axis, the State Government has identified nine illegal checkpoints were trucks will no longer be allowed to be stopped. This is even as the State Government banned all military checkpoints along the port corridor in Lagos port area. In a…
Ahead of the forthcoming election, the Nigerian army and police engaged gunmen in Idemili south in a gun duel which lasted for hours. Watch video below….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5HfvrbLjWQ
Ghana Electoral Commission has said police, soldiers, journalists and ambulance drivers will not be able to cast their ballots in the December 7 election. The GEC has already published the names of those who will cast their ballots on a special day for people working on special occasions, whose voting may affect their work on…
The first military governor of Lagos State, Brigadier Mobolaji Johnson, is dead. Truetellsnigeria gathered that Mobolaji, who was born on February 9, 1936, died on Wednesday (today), aged 83. As Military Governor of Lagos State, he was in office between May 28, 1967 and July 1975, under the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon. His father was…
