Nigeria News Forum

The Nigerian Army has explained why the men of the Army Headquarters Garrison, Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja, took over the premises of a company belonging to Mr. Robert Azibaola, a cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday. Buratai  The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, told one of our correspondents in a text message that the land in question belonged to the Army.  Usman said the Army decided to take over the property because the service did not want any further encroachment on the property. He stressed that the Nigerian Army would not tolerate any encroachment on its land.  “The said property is on Nigerian Army’s land and the Army will not allow anybody to encroach on its land.  “Consequently, the property has to be sealed to prevent further encroachment,” he stated.  Soldiers had taken over the premises of Kakarta Civil Engineering Limited, owned by the former President’s cousin, located along the Kubw...

WARRI- VOICE Delta, a group waging war against renewed militancy in the Niger-Delta region has disclosed how the Federal Government could seize the supposed leader of the dreaded Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, within one week. The group in series of tweets on its twitter handle, urged President Muhmmadu Buhari to stop foot dragging on the option of constituting a civilian JTF in the Niger-Delta, which it had offered privately and publicly to the Federal Government. “Let us state this fact; a vast majority of the people of the Niger Delta will welcome the setting up of the civilian JTF to fight criminals. The military as presently constituted cannot arrest this criminality by the leader of NDA (name withheld) and his gang of economic saboteurs. “A civilian JTF working side by side with the Nigerian military will flush him and his criminal gang out less than one week,” it boasted. It said the capacity of Niger Delta Avengers to strike has depleted with the loss of its men and crack in th...

*Say two suspects, Stanley, Felix seized by NNS Delta not NDA members WARRI- THE Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, this morning, confronted the Commander of Operation Delta Safe, Rear Admiral Joseph Okojie and Commanding Officer, NNS Delta, Commodore Joseph Dzunye, asking them to come to the creeks of the Niger Delta, rather than stay in the cities and arrest “sleeper” agents, who they brand as NDA members to curry favour from their superiors. Spokesperson of NDA, self-styled Brig General Mudoch Agbinibo, threw the challenge in a statement rebutting the claim by NNS Delta commander on Saturday that two suspects, Stanley Tonghan and Felix Miyenminiye, arrested by the navy, few days ago, were members of the militant group. NDA said that the two suspects were agents working in conjunction with security agencies and were paid N5 million by two leaders (names withheld) to give Nigeria military intelligence on the activities of the group. The statement read: “We made it clear that the Nigeria m...