Arms and Military Affairs

News : Arms and Military Affairs

Should the Federal Government of Nigeria bring in British soldiers for the purpose of containing the violence in the Niger Delta, Nigeria will be seized by an uncontrollable violence. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations Security Council is no stranger to intractable international disputes. But soon Sudan will present it with a different kind of problem, one it has not faced in its 62-year history. (AllAfrica)

The government carried out an exercise to destroy 160 tonnes of ammunition and unexploded ordinances at Gabiro Military Training School yesterday. (AllAfrica)

Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has said majority of the people of Niger Delta believe in continuous dialogue despite the cancellation of Niger Delta summit by the Federal Government. (AllAfrica)

The Federal Government has said that it has the capacity to effectively tackle and deal with the militant groups that have taken and held hostage the Niger Delta area. (AllAfrica)

We share the concern of patriotic Nigerians about President Yar'adua's reported acceptance of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's offer to deploy British military personnel "to train and advise Nigerian troops fighting militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta region." (AllAfrica)

AN HIV-positive soldier whom the military is obliged to consider for foreign deployment says he is again being overlooked. (AllAfrica)

The defence ministry is to spend sh35b to construct a new hospital to replace the former Mbuya military hospital. (AllAfrica)

At least 16 people have been killed in renewed clashes in central Somalia after Ethiopian troops attacked and retook control of a key town near the Somali-Ethiopian border, Radio Garowe reported. (AllAfrica)

A total of 27,000 have been collected from Karamoja since the disarmament exercise started in 2001, the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs, heard on Tuesday. (AllAfrica)

At least eleven fire-arms of different calibres have handed over on 15-22 July to the National Police department in the northern Bengo province by citizens owning them illegally. (AllAfrica)

Angolan deputy minister of Justice, Guilhermina Prata, said Thursday in Luanda that the Government has been paying a particular attention to the military justice in the country, as part of the reform in progress. (AllAfrica)

With a sound military background on intelligence, Major A. A. Mohammed (rtd), a former chief security officer to President Ibrahim Babangida, highlights the dangers in establishing foreign military commands in the Niger Delta area. As a professional, he would want to stand and be counted among patriotic Nigerians that are against the establishment of these commands. Speaking to our man BABANGIDA KAKAKI, Major Mohammed also examines this and other critical issues of national importance. Excerpts: (AllAfrica)

Angolan deputy minister of Justice, Guilhermina Prata, said Thursday in Luanda that the Government has been paying a particular attention to the military justice in the country, as part of the reform in progress. (AllAfrica)

On Tuesday, July 22, 2008 President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed into law "An Act to amend chapters 14 &15 Sub-Chapter (c), Title 26 of the Liberian Code of Laws Revised, known as the New Panel Code Law of 1976, by adding thereto four new sections thereby making the crimes of armed robbery, terrorism and Hijacking, respectively, Capital offences, and providing punishment thereof." (AllAfrica)

Uganda People's Defence Forces is still pursuing heavily armed Sudanese Topotha warriors who crossed in the country on July 17, and were involved in a battle with the UPDF at Kanangorok, near Murongole hills in Kaabong District. (AllAfrica)

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said his government has not expelled the UPDF from its territory. (AllAfrica)

A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report reveals that the rebel FDLR is one of the militias that are still getting support from elements within the Congolese armed forces. (AllAfrica)

The head of the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) met today with President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan at the mission's headquarters in El Fasher. (AllAfrica)

France and UNICEF signed on Wednesday 23 July 2008 in Kinshasa an agreement for 1.1 million dollars for a UNICEF project entitled: "Support to activities of prevention of recruitment of children and the reintegration of children affected by armed conflicts in the DRC." (AllAfrica)

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), yesterday, dismissed the claim by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it paid N12 million per month to militants as protection fee when it carried out repairs on the damaged Chanomi Creek oil pipeline in Delta State, some months ago, saying the money was paid to a gang of criminals and not militant freedom fighters. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations envoy to Somalia told the Security Council today that there were limited choices for bringing peace to the violence-wracked Horn of Africa country, but that the time had come to make a final decision on the best possible option. (AllAfrica)

At its weekly press conference of 23 July 2008, MONUC called on armed groups in eastern DRC to end the suffering of the peoples of the Kivus by respecting the Goma Acts of engagement. MONUC also noted the progess of the Amani Programme in relation to the work of the Joint Committee on Peace and Security and its subsidiary bodies, which is now treating essential basic problems relating to the disengagement plan in particular. (AllAfrica)

The Government should exercise patience over the Juba peace talks and continue negotiations with the LRA, veteran politician Jaberi Bidandi Ssali has said. (AllAfrica)

Somali troops fresh from military training in neighboring Ethiopia traveled to the capital Mogadishu Wednesday, but not before engaging in a deadly battle with local government security forces, reports said. (AllAfrica)

The idea of securing military assistance from the United Kingdom and other foreign interests as the next option for the troubled Niger Delta has been described as "unfounded" and "definitely not on the agenda" of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. (AllAfrica)

UNKNOWN gunmen snatched, yesterday, the official spare car, a 4X4 Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) of Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State in an attack on his aides on the Aba-Port Harcourt Road. (AllAfrica)

Defence Headquarters in Abuja and the authorities of the Joint Military Task Force In Bayelsa State yesterday identified a militia Commander, Woki Abralafu, alias Kitikata as the leader of those responsible for the Thursday's killing of three soldiers and four civilians along the Obioku-Nembe waterways in the state. (AllAfrica)

The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) has begun a manhunt for one Woki Abralaful who allgedly masterminded the killing of three soldiers and four civilians who were attacked along the Nembe creek in Bayelsa State last week. (AllAfrica)

A CHIEFTAIN of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Levi Nwokeafor has cautioned the federal government against using further military alternatives in the Niger Delta region in order to ensure a " no war situation" in the creeks. (AllAfrica)

Regional governments must stop just talking about eradicating negative forces in the region and swing into action, the Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Aronda Nyakairima, said yesterday. (AllAfrica)