President Muhammadu Buhari did not attend the opening ceremony of the Nigerian Army Small Arms championship, NASAC, holding at the Sambisa Forest, former stronghold of the Boko Haram Terrorist group as promised.
The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has warned those who are agitating for secession from Nigeria to forget it as such reality will not be possible “in the next three or four millenniums.”
The Nigerian Army authorities have explained that the libel suit against Premium Times was instituted by the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai in his personal capacity, not in in his capacity of COAS.
Men of the Nigeria police force, on Thursday raided the head office of one of Nigeria’s most popular online newspaper, Premium Times, in Abuja, and arrested its publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi.
The Nigerian Army has said that it has already deployed Special Forces to Southern Kaduna to join other security agencies in making sure that normalcy is restored to that region.
PREMIUM TIMES has replied a letter sent by the Nigerian Army, threatening legal action against the newspaper for publications about the army and the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, a Lieutenant General.
