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Private Hannah Sofiat Akinlabi, a female soldier detained after video clips of her being proposed to by a male corps member at the National Youth Service Corps orientation camp in Yikpata, Kwara State, went viral on social media has been released by the Nigerian Army. Spokesperson for the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, confirmed the development to our correspondent. He said, “I can confirm to you that an order has been made for the soldier to be freed and enjoy the Christmas with her family and friends with a serious warning for her not to repeat such act again.” Nigerian Media's   had earlier  reported that the female soldier was ordered to be detained by Captain MM Abdulahi, Kwara State NYSC Camp Commandant, at a military detention facility in Ilorin, the state capital, pending further investigations. A military source had said she was detained for not being “due for marriage, romancing on uniform publicly, absent on parade, indiscriminate behaviou

Taraba State Governor Darius Ishaku on Tuesday met with President Muhammadu Buhari and said setting up permanent military bases along Taraba’s border with Cameroon is the only solution to incessant Ambazonia attacks on Nigerian civilians. Ambazonia militants, who are seeking to secede from Cameroon, regularly cross into communities in Taraba, inflicting huge casualties. In November, the militants attacked Takum local government and killed 11 persons, including a traditional ruler in Manga village. “The military is stationed there for now,” Ishaku said on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “But I had to tell the President, as the Commander-in-Chief, we will need a permanent solution on the axis of our continuous boundary with Cameroon.” He noted that the Kashimbilla dam has extended the Kashimbilla lake about six kilometers into Cameroonian territory, allowing for easy access to and from Nigeria. “Therefore we need to station a naval base, an air force base to police the borders and

NEWS December 7, 2021 The Borno State Police Command has arrested  a soldier, Lance Corporal Aliyu Isa who gave her lover a  bag containing live ammunition and was caught with live ammunition while boarding a car to Yola from Askira town, in the Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State. The 25-year-old claimed that she was given the ammunition by her military boyfriend, one Lance Corporal Aliyu Isa, to deliver to the driver of a commercial vehicle heading for Yola. She said, “I have been dating the soldier for one year and four months now. His name is Aliyu Isa, a Lance Corporal with the Nigerian Army, serving in Askira. He gave me the bag and instructed me to take it to a park in Uba and waybill it in a vehicle going to Yola. I arrived at the Una Motor Park around 5pm. When I got to the driver, he asked me what was in the bag and I told him I did not know. Then, he said we should open it to confirm before he would accept the luggage. Upon opening the bag, we discove

•Re-Plot to Release Kidnappers Terrorizing Jalingo The Chief of Gassol Alhaji Idris Yakubu Chiroma has rejected plots to link him to some persons arrested for kidnapping in Jalingo Taraba State. A statement from the Gassol Royal Family signed by  Alhaji Gambo Yakubu Chiroma said no member of the family has approached the Police to seek bail for any kidnap kingpin in Taraba State According to Gambo, the Royal  family of Gassol is disassociating themselves from any criminal, “we have not engaged any lawyer nor discuss his bail with anyone whosoever, and the report insinuating that a Second Class Chief from Gassol is interested in the case should be completely disregarded.   “ We saw a report in Taraba Truth and Facts Newspaper  and we understand that there's a plot to link the highly respected Chief of Gassol His Highness  Alhaji Idris Yakubu Chiroma  to some arrested criminals because one among them is a distant relative to him,”  Gambo said. “We should put it on record