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PART from rehabilitation and re-integration of repentant militants, the implementation of a wide range of projects in the Niger Delta region is a critical component of the post-amnesty package of the Federal Government which must not be toyed with.
The Joint Task Force (JTF) and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday traded blame over alleged raid of the home of a repentant militant leader, with the militants accusing the security outfit of threatening the ceasefire in the region by carrying out the raid.
Prosecutors spent much of today's cross-examination of former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, reading out statements by other West African leaders condemning Mr. Taylor Liberian rebel group for crimes committed against Liberians and members of international humanitarian agencies, including American Catholic nuns and peacekeepers during his country's civil war.
Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously to approve the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009, bringing the legislation a step closer to reaching President Obama's desk. The bill is now eligible to be voted on by the full United States Senate, and has already picked up the support from a bipartisan set of 29 cosponsors.
Public Service Minister Eliphas Mukonoweshuro has announced that the coalition government will this month begin an audit of the civil service, to weed out ghost workers. The audit follows reports over the months that tens of thousands of workers were on the public service payroll, despite not doing anything.
FBI and CIA investigators are now in Rift Valley probing reports that communities are arming themselves in readiness for the 2012 elections.
The Transitional Federal Government officials have said that they captured several people charging that they were creating insecurity situations in the Somali capital Mogadishu, official told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
The Gambia Armed Forces have warned non military personnel against the unlawful purchase and use of military equipment and items.
The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the continued and recently increasing attacks carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic and the Sudan, which have resulted in the death, abduction and displacement of thousands of civilians.
GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, expressed his gratitude to President Umaru Yar'Adua for approving the deployment of the military for the Joint Task Force operation, tagged Operation Thunderstorm in the state.
A Harare magistrate yesterday threw out the application for refusal of remand by MDC-T transport manager, Pascal Gwezere, who is facing allegations of stealing 20 AK-47 rifles and a shotgun from Pomona Army Barracks.
After his cross-examination got off to a stumble last week over the use of "new evidence," Charles Taylor today admitted to prosecutors that he shared information with the spy agency of the same country he has accused of plotting his downfall: the United States. Mr. Taylor also dismissed as "nonsense" prosecution allegations that he has been misusing his phone privileges while in jail to try to ...
At least 5 civilians have been killed and 11 others injured in fighting between Somali government forces and insurgents in restive capital Mogadishu.
A United Nations report released today criticizes the judicial process in a Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) military court in connection with the trial of a murdered Congolese journalist, including the alleged bribery of the presiding judges.
The Tripartite Mechanism for Darfur has held its seventh meeting in Khartoum. The Undersecretary of the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Mutrif Siddiq, Commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union (AU), Ambassador Ramtane Lamamra, and UN Under-Secretary-General for Field Support, Ms. Susana Malcorra, headed their respective delegations.
A few months ago, the Army Council decided to commute the sentences passed on the soldiers who were tried by a court martial and convicted for mutiny because they protested against the non-payment of their salaries and allowances by the military authorities while they were away on peace-keeping mission outside the country.
This year's Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference scheduled for next week in Lagos is to focus on President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's Seven Point Agenda and National Security.
Over 1000 former militants in the holding camp at Aluu, behind the University of Port Harcourt in Rivers State yesterday staged a violent demonstration, which spilled to the road separating Delta and Abuja campuses of the university and the East-West road where they blocked for several hours.
This year's Chief of Army Staff Conference with the theme 'Strengthening the Nigerian Army's operational capabilities: An imperative for attaining national security objectives of the government's 7- point agenda', will hold in Lagos from Sunday 22nd November to Wednesday 25th 2009.
Members of the Marine Office Committee, an umbrella body of the Nigeria's Insurance Association, are currently on a working visit in The Gambia.
Cross-pollination of ideas between armies in the region is of great importance as it fosters unity in the face of common enemies, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.
The military intervention of January 1966, which was to a considerable degree a consequence of the persisting political turmoil in Western Nigeria, put an abrupt end to the political activities of the various parties.
Lagos State Government yesterday presented keys of a three bedroom flat to Mrs. Olubunmi Oluseyi Awe, widow of a military officer who was slain during an attack on the Atlas Cove Jetty and certificates of commendation to 16 police officers and men who have distinguished themselves on duties.
THE House of Representatives is set to review the bill that established the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme to make life more bearable for corps members across the country.
Members of the National Academy (Itorero ry'igihugu) have been called upon to become the catalyst and agents of change in the country's quest for social and economic transformation.
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