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    Metro Operation Python Dance Was Carefully Planned For South-easterners - Buratai

    Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai has said that the Operation Python Dance II exercise was designed to sharpen the skills of personnel to be able to deal with internal security issues. The army chief stated when he was received by the Ebonyi governor on Monday. Buratai stressed that Egwu Eke...
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    Politics How Army Chief, Buratai, Averted Planned Coup - Governor Aregbesola

    Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday stated that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, averted coup in Nigeria. Aregbesola made the declaration at the Osun State House of Assembly in Osogbo, the state capital. He urged the House to pass a resolution commending Buratai...
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    Politics Service Chiefs Storm Aso Rock

    Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Tukur Buratai; the Chief Of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Sadique Abubakar and the Chief Of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Iba, reportedly visited Aso rock this morning. VANGUARD reports that the reason for the early morning visit is still unknown...
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    Metro Army Chief Burutai: IDPs Can Apply For Army Recruitment

    Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Tukur Buratai has stated that Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) affected by the Boko Haram insurgency can join the army. The move to recruit IDPs is sequel upon several pleas by the IDPs to top military brass to be enlisted into the military. He said this in...
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    Metro “White Man” Found In Sambisa Forest Killed – Burutai

    Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Tukur Buratai has confirmed that a light skinned man found in the Sambisa forest was among those killed when Nigerian troops launched an attack on the forest. The army chief told DailyTrust newspaper said contrary to wide spread speculations that a white man was...
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    Cruelty Or Training? How Nigerian Army Officers Brutally Flog Cadets

    A video by one Aisha Alubankudi posted on PUNCH has revealed how some officers of the Nigerian Army brutally flogged some cadets. What remains unclear is why such treatment was meted out on them – and if this could be regarded as an act of training or sheer wickedness. WATCH VIDEO BELOW:
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    Metro Army Chief Tukur Burutai Speaks on Fulani Herdsmen Attacks

    Chief of Army-Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai yesterday admitted that the suspected Fulani herdsmen believed to be responsible for brutish attacks on some communities in the country may have affiliation with the Book Haram terrorists. According to the Guardian, Buratai said one might not be...
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    Metro Amnesty International Reveals How Nigerian Army Buried Shi'ite Members Alive

    Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian military of taking measures to cover up its troops’ massacre of Shiite Muslims in Zaria, Kaduna State last December. In its latest report, the international human rights and advocacy organization gave a detailed account of the Nigerian military’s...
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    Metro Aisha Buhari Visits Wounded Soldiers in Kaduna Hospital

    President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Hajiya Aisha, yesterday called on the Nigeria Army to ensure prompt payment of entitlements to the families of soldiers who lost their lives in the battle field. Hajiya Aisha made the call when she visited the 44 Army Reference Hospital in Kaduna yesterday to...
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