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Human rights activist, Femi Falana, has condemned the move by the Nigerian Army to re-launch its Python Dance and Crocodile Smile operations in some parts of the country, urging the military to focus on combating terrorism. The lawyer … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and...

Army renames Military Operation in South-East from ‘Exercise Egwu Eke’ to ‘Exercise Atilogwu Udo’ The authorities of the Nigerian Army wish to inform the general public of the change of … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2OTEgqM Get More Nigeria Metro News

A Nigerian man from Igbo who lives in Abuja took to Facebook to share photos of him celebrating IPOB sit-at-home with python and wrote…. ‘In honor of those who died in the hands of Nigerian Army’s Operation Python Dance.I honor your souls;A nation should not be at war with … Read more via...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague has said it will investigate the September 2017 invasion of a community in Abia State by soldiers of the Nigerian Army during a military exercise code-named Operation Python Dance 2 (Egwu Eke Abuo). The Office of the Prosecutor, ICC, stated...

The Nigerian Army has declared that it has ended it’s operation in the Southeast. General Officer Commanding (GOC), 82 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Adamu Baba Abubakar, speaking on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff. Lieutenant General TY Buratai formally declare the end of Exercise...

Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 82 Division , Colonel Sagir Musa, has revealed that Operation Python Dance II will continue next year as Operation Python Dance III. While addressing newsmen, he maintained that no resistance against the exercise will succeed since it is a regular...

Operation code-names have been an important part of military operations since the Germans first applied them in World War I. But it may be said that the recent (or ongoing?) controversial military exercise in the South Eastern part of Nigeria codenamed Operation Python Dance II is the first...

Amnesty International (AI) has said that it is investigating the clash between the Nigerian Army and the members of the Nnamdi Kanu led Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in Umuahia, Abia state. AI, in a statement on Friday by its Director in Nigeria, Osai Ojigho, said it was deeply concerned...

The leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Ralph Uwazurike, has said the activities of Independent People of Biafra, IPOB, negate the rule of engagement of the Biafra struggle. Mr. Uwazurike expressed the view in Owerri on Thursday and added that...

The Nigerian Army says it will go ahead with its planned military operation in the South-east. The army, in a statement issued at about 12:42 a.m on Friday, advised Nigerians to disregard the statement by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu which gave the impression that it was withdrawing its troops from...

A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, ha described the Nigerian Military's operation python dance as illegal and urged the government to take the phytons back to the forest where they belong. Adegoruwa stated this on Thursday morning while featuring on Channels Television...

Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna central senatorial district has condemned Operation Python Dance II in the South East and called on the government to put a stop to it. Senator Sani on his social media account on Thursday described the operation as a deadly Python Dance. He said: "Deadly...

Nigerian Army is to launch “Operation Ogbu Eke II’’ – “Python Dance II’’, in the South East between Sept. 15 and Oct. 14, to check violent criminals, agitators and other forms of criminalities. Maj-Gen. David Ahmadu, the Chief of Training and Operations, announced this at a news conference on...