Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has denied a report by the Amnesty International alleging that a cache of thousands of internal documents suggested the Anglo-Dutch oil giant's complicity in crimes committed by the Nigerian military in the 1990s.
Eight minors displaced by the Boko Haram have been reunited with their families, now resident in displaced peoples’ camps in Borno State, years after being displaced, Channels Television news report.
Nigerian Army on Saturday repelled an attack by Boko Haram insurgents at Magumeri town, headquarters of Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno State losing three soldiers in the process.
No fewer than 18 persons were reported to have died Friday after an 18-seater commercial bus and a tanker conveying diesel collided along the Owerri-Orlu road in Imo state.
The Federal Government on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with its Turkish counterpart to curtail the alarming influx of arms, ammunitions and illicit cargoes into the country. The MoU was signed by the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Services, Col. Hammed Ali (rtd) on behalf of the Federal Government.
The Nigerian Army has ordered its personnel to learn the three major languages in the country by December 2018. It also advised prospective candidates to endeavour to learn the Nigerian languages other than their mother tongues to better stand the chance of being recruited or commissioned into the Nigerian Army.
According to the Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman, in a statement he highlighted that, the directive forms part of a new language policy in the army aimed at fostering unity, better communication with the populace and information gathering.
