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The 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta, Ogun State, as part of its Cooperate Social Responsibility (CSR) yesterday embarked on palliative work on a major road, leading to its barracks. The busy six-kilometer road begins at Lafenwa, a suburb of Abeokuta, the state capital, and ends at the Alamala Barracks. Men and officers of the 35 Artillery Brigade took up the ...

Members of the Representatives on Wednesday urged Federal Ministries of Power, Works & Housing as well as Defence, to work out modalities for the return of unutilized expanses of land forcefully acquired for military barracks to host communities. According to Afe Olowookere (APC-Ondo), who sponsored the motion, one-quarter of the land area of the cities were acquired by the military ...

“The Nigerian Army has been allocated 500 hectares of land by the Borno State Government, for the establishment of a military university.”- Channels TV The university would be an upgraded version of the Army’s already existing Institute of Technology and Environmental study in Borno State, north-east Nigeria. Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, said this at the opening ...

A 47-year-old tenant, Onyekwere Micheal, has been arraigned before an Ebute-Metta Magistrate’s Court in Lagos for impersonation. The defendant was arraigned on three counts bordering on impersonation and unlawful possession of army accoutrement. It was gathered that Micheal, between September 2013 and November 27, 2014, with the intent to defraud, presented himself as a member of the Nigerian Army. We ...