Nigeria’s special forces are active and improving but still maturing, and they fight Boko Haram and ISWAP through joint, intelligence-led raids and rapid-response missions inside a larger military ...

Brigadier General Godwin Alabi-Isama (retired) was one of the top players in the military during the Nigerian Civil War, also known as Biafra War. Alabi-Isama served as chief of staff to Brigadier ...

Tukur Buratai, former Chief of Army Staff, has called for far-reaching reforms of Nigeria’s security, defence and governance architecture, warning that the country must urgently rethink how it ...

For decades, Nigeria’s insecurity has been framed as a domestic tragedy: insurgents in the North-East, bandits in the ...

Frederick Forsyth’s account of the Nigerian Civil War, mainly from the Biafran lens, is perhaps one of the most riveting you ...

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has lamented the killing of Nigerians soldiers by insurgents in the ongoing war ...

The expansion of ISWAP’s drone programme marks a turning point in Nigeria’s counter-terrorism battle. This is no longer a fight waged only with rifles in the forest; it is now a technologically driven ...

Yesterday, January 15, 2026, marked exactly 60 years since Nigeria’s first military coup of 1966, a turning point that ...

BY FISAYO AJALA The 15th of January is celebrated annually as Nigerian Armed Forces Remembrance and Celebration ...

As the title of the book suggests, Opadokun used the gun as a metaphor for the military, militarist power and its hegemony in ...

President Trump says the government of Nigeria is failing to stop the killing of Christians, and he’s directing the Pentagon to prepare for possible action. President Donald Trump said on Saturday ...