The Nigeria Army (NA) is set to receive the delivery of fighter aircrafts in Abuja which was made known in a statement issued on Thursday by the Director of Army Public Relations, Major General Onyema Nwachukuwu. The statement partly reads, “The Nigerian Army Aviation is set to take delivery of its first batch of aircraft today. The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja will subsequently launch the aircraft into operations upon arrival in Nigeria.”

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has disclosed that the Nigeria Army (NA) plans to deploy the 5,937 soldiers to fight banditry, cattle rustling and related crimes nationwide. He made this known during the passing out parade for the 86 Regular Recruit intake of the Depot Nigeria Army in Zaria on Saturday. He said, “The fresh products passing out today will form part of the solutions to the challenge of insurgency in the North-East, banditry and cattle rustling in the North-West.

The Federal Government, Friday, ordered the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to take over the protection of transmission lines and towers. The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo made this remark during the passing out parade of the second batch of mining marshals of NSCDC in Abuja. Expressing deep concern over the constant vandalism of transmission lines, towers and transformers, Tunji-Ojo described the oft-repeated vandalism of the critical national assets as economic sabotage, which must be dealt with.

Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, has dismissed reports that the Nigerian airspace is not covered by radar. Describing the claim as false and misleading, Managing Director of NAMA, Umar Farouk, said the radar services in Kano, Lagos, Abuja and Port-Harcourt were serviceable. Farouk, in a statement, said although the Terminal Radar Approach Control, TRACON system, was undergoing an upgrade of software and modernization, radar services for terminal and Enroute flights were positively identified to provide air navigation services to airspace users.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has revealed that its operatives in collaboration with the military personnel foiled the simultaneous attack on Abaji Divisional Police headquarters and First Bank in Abaji area council of the nation’s capital, carried out by gunmen. In a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja on Friday, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, the FCT Commissioner of Police Bennett Igweh was quoted as saying; “In a swift response to an armed robbery incident at first Bank PLC in Abaji on June 13, 2024, at about 5:00 PM, the FCT police, led by the commissioner of police, CP Benneth C. Igweh, psc, mni, himself, in a combined operation with the military, mobilized to the scene and repelled the attack simultaneously carried out on both Abaji Divisional Police headquarters and first bank PLC in Abaji by a group of fifteen armed men who attacked with dynamites in attempt to rob the bank.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has commenced exercises to review and decongest Custodial Centres across the country. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo disclosed this after an assessment of the ongoing 3,000 capacity Maximum Security Custodial Centre in Janguza, Kano State, as well as the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kuje, Abuja. Tunji-Ojo noted that the facility audit earlier done led to the ongoing exercise to massively decongest centres.