Soldiers invade newspaper distribution centre in Kwara

Another detachment of gun-wielding soldiers from the Sobi Cantonment on Saturday stormed the popular Oniyangi newspaper distribution centre, along Emir’s road in Ilorin, to stop the circulation of The Nation newspapers in Kwara state.

It was gathered that some soldiers had early hours of Saturday impounded the van conveying copies of the newspaper to the state in Ogere, Ogun state, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Armed soldier had also of Friday stormed the same centre looking for some newspapers they claimed they had orders ‘from above’ to seize

The operation also extended to other parts of the metropolis as nearly all the distribution vans conveying Saturday’s edition of several newspapers were stopped at Eiyenkorin area or on the Ilorin-Ogbomosho expressway. The drivers of the vans were detained and their phones seized.

Defence Headquarters (DHQ) says no attack on Maiduguri metropolis as widely reported today

Defense Headquarters has refuted reports in the media that terrorists launched an attack on Maiduguri this morning, May 3, 2014.

In a statement signed by Major General Chris Olukolade released to the media today, May 3, 2014, the Nigerian military said that troops received a distress call in the early hours of the morning and launched a counter attack using mortar shells on a group of terrorists.

The statement reads:

There was no attack on Maiduguri metropolis as widely reported this morning by some media outlets especially a foreign television channel.  Rather, on receiving distress call, troops at about 2am this morning launched a counter attack using mainly mortar shells on a group of terrorists who had attacked and killed four persons in Margimari village and other settlements in the outskirts of Maiduguri.  There was no fighting or attack around the University or any barrack in Maiduguri either, as reported.

Fulani Herdsmen Targeting FCT - Army Raises The Alarm, Distress call saves community as troops continue onslaught on terrorists

The Nigerian Army  yesterday raises alarm that the herdsmen that have been attacking and killing innocent people in some states in the north are targeting the Fedral Capital Territory, Abuja, the seat of the government. 

The Military cautions the populace against identifying with them. Fulani herdsmen, who have been operating under the cover of the night, according to the military, were hired by some unscrupulous faceless people to unleash terror on the populace.

The terrorists have killed about 2, 000 innocent people in the last few weeks. Security forces have been dispatching troops to Benue, Nasarawa and Plateau states at the directive of President Goodluck Jonathan. Some top officers that were sent to Benue on fact-finding mission were said to have written a damning report that showed that the herdsmen were coming into the country from the neighbouring countries to attack, kill and destroy.

18 Boko Haram terrorists as troops capture more weapons – DHQ

The Nigeria military on Monday in Abuja said that it killed 18 suspected terrorists while troops captured more weapons and aborted attacks in the outskirts of Bama and Ngurosoye in Borno. This is contained in a statement signed by Major General Chris Olukolade, Director of Defence Information, in Abuja.

Mr. Olukolade, who is also the Coordinator, Joint Information Centre Counter Terrorism Campaign, said the terrorists were killed during military patrol at the weekend in the area. He said the troops dislodged some terrorists who were about to attack some settlements and in the encounter, 16 burnt AK 47 rifles were found in the debris.

SENATE: ‘HELICOPTERS FERRY IN ARMS, ATTACKERS’

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Bandits and insurgents operating in parts of the North are ferried in by helicopters along with their weapons likely from foreign lands to launch their attacks, the Senate heard in Abuja yesterday.
During a debate on a motion on the violence in several northern states, Senator Abu Ibrahim from Katsina revealed that attackers of some of the affected places were not local people but were air-dropped from somewhere else along with their supplies.

Is this Believable?: Captured Terrorists Make Confessions, Plead For Mercy

Reports say Scores of wounded terrorists, who escaped from various camps under the fire of security forces in north east Nigeria, have been captured in the fringes of Lake Chad. 
 

The spokesman for the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MJTF), Major General Chris Olukolade, said in a statement that the captured terrorists, some of whom were fatally wounded, were already making useful statements to interrogators of the task force. 

According to him, others were captured by troops in locations around Dikwa, Cross Kauwa, Kukawa and Alargarmo. In their confessions, it was revealed that some of the camps had been disbanded following the directive of their clerics who declared that the operation of the sect had come to an end as the mission could no longer be sustained. 

Defence Headquarters: Boko Haram in fierce resistance

Nigerian military, yesterday, confirmed that it is currently engaged in a fierce battle with Boko Haram insurgents who have been unleashing terror in the North Eastern part of the country. 

The Defence Headquarters admitted that it lost soldiers in the encounters while some terrorists were also killed. This was against the backdrop of revelations that the troops were finding it difficult to check  activities of the terrorists because of the sophistication of the sect members among other factors.