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 TROOPS OF 3 DIVISION/JOINT TASK FORCE OPERATION ENDURING PEACE FOIL ATTACK ON COMMUNITIES, NEUTRALISE BANDITS AND RECOVER ARMS AND AMMUNITION IN PLATEAU STATE 1.   Following efforts to deny bandits and other criminal elements freedom of action in the Joint Operations Area (JOA), troops of 3 Division/Joint Task Force Operation ENDURING PEACE (JTF OPEP) conducted sustained offensive operations as part of the ongoing Operation PEACE SHIELD.  During an intelligence-led ambush operation in the early hours of 1 January 2026, troops made contact with bandits who had mobilised from Dutsen Zaki towards Odare Forest in Wase LGA of Plateau State with the intention of attacking adjoining communities in the area.  During the firefight, troops neutralised 5 bandits while others fled. Troops also recovered 2 AK-47 rifle magazines containing 11 rounds of 7.62 mm (Special) ammunition, 2 machetes and one knife from the bandits.  Troops are currently on the trail of the flee...

 SUSTAINED NIGERIAN ARMY OFFENSIVE SECURES 31 KIDNAP VICTIMS, NETS 17 SUSPECTS The Nigerian Army recorded significant operational gains across multiple theatres in the last 24 hours, arresting 17 criminal suspects, rescuing 31 kidnapped victims and recovering two pump-action guns with five rounds of ammunition, as sustained pressure forced criminal elements to flee on contact while troops consolidated gains and protected civilians. In Zamfara State, troops of 1 Brigade Combat Team 5 at FOB Moriki, working with local hunters, responded to a distress call regarding the kidnapping of residents at Kadage Village, Maradun LGA. On sighting the troops, the terrorists abandoned 25 kidnapped victims and fled. The victims were rescued, the area exploited without further contact and all rescued persons were reunited with their families in Moriki Town. In Delta State, troops of 63 Brigade acting on intelligence on arrested a suspected cultist/kidnapper terrorising Ezuokwu Community, Oshimili N...

 LAGOS: NEMA MOBILIZES CCECC TO BUILDING COLLAPSE SITE The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA has mobilised the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, CCECC to the site of the  Great Nigeria House gutted by fire in Marina. This is in response to the request by the Lagos state Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu for federal agencies to give a helping hand in bringing down the 22 storey building to make way for excavation work. NEMA's Director, Search & Rescue, Air Commodore Usman Bature and the Agency's Head of Operations in Lagos, Tunde Mohammed led the chinese Company to the site.  Governor Babajide Samwu- Olu on his second visit to the site said no excavation work can be carried out except the building is brought down for  the Safety of emergency workers.  The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation   has since mobilised Equipment to site awaiting further directives to commence work. More photos below. 

 *PRESS RELEASE*  NAF SUSTAINS RELENTLESS AIR INTERDICTION CAMPAIGN ACROSS NORTH-EAST AND NORTH-WEST, CRIPPLING TERRORIST NETWORKS AND DENYING SAFE HAVENS The Nigerian Air Force has sustained an unrelenting air interdiction campaign against terrorist elements through a series of coordinated, intelligence-led operations conducted between 1 and 2 January 2026 across critical threat corridors in the North-East and North-West through the joint task forces of Operations HADIN KAI and FASAN YAMMA SECTOR 2. Acting on actionable intelligence on terrorist intent, movement, and logistics, NAF air assets were decisively employed to strike identified hideouts, movement routes, and assembly areas. These operations reinforce the Service’s resolve to deny terrorists freedom of movement, operational depth, and any form of sanctuary within Nigeria’s sovereign territory. In the North-East theatre, successive precision strikes were delivered against deeply concealed terrorist enclaves at Abirma ...

 New clashes break out between DRC forces and M23 rebels near key town Violent fighting broke out Saturday between M23 armed group and pro-government forces in several towns around the strategic eastern DR Congo city of Uvira, local sources said, Reuters reported. The resource-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which borders Rwanda as well as Burundi, has been beset by 30 years of continual violence. The situation has worsened since 2021 amid the resurgence of the M23. Having seized the two main eastern cities of Goma and Bukavu late last year, the group launched a new offensive in December in South Kivu province and gained control on December 10 of Uvira, a strategic city of several hundred thousand people near Burundi, DRC's ally. Trump-brokered peace The group also took control of border areas at a time when the DRC and Rwanda were signing a peace accord in Washington brokered by US President Donald Trump. "Since 3 am (0100 GMT), violent clashes between M23 rebe...

 An 81-year-old Florida man has rescued himself from an abusive caregiver with the awesome help from his letter carrier. The 81-year-old man involved in this shocking story has asked to be anonymous.  However, his quick thinking after an attack in his own home brought his @busive caregiver to justice. According to authorities, the caregiver, 60-year-old Denise Williams, became incensed over the state of a bathroom in the home and violently lashed out at the elderly resident under her care. Williams allegedly began to str@ngle the elderly man.  The man did his best to fend off his attacker and was able to get to his phone to call 911. However, as he was attempting to call, Williams jumped on top of him and wrenched the phone from his hands. Williams then confiscated the man's phones, checkbook, credit cards, and keys before leaving the home. Williams had been the mans live-in caregiver for over 2 years.  The elderly man knew he had to do something to alert authorities...

 A New Jersey man called 911, then used his wife's Homeland Security vehicle to pose as an officer and help responding officers clear the home. Long story short, this guy really wanted to play "cop" while his wife left him home alone. 32-year-old Nicholas Cabral is facing charges of impersonating an officer and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes. These charges stem from a 911 call that was placed on the night of December 10th concerning a home that was being renovated. The caller, who police ultimately determined to be Nicholas Cabral, reported that the homes front door was open. As officers with the Washington Township P.D. arrived on the scene, a Homeland Security vehicle was also arriving at a high rate of speed with its emergency lights on. The vehicle would later be determined to be Nicholas's wife's official vehicle. His wife is a Homeland Security officer but was on assignment in California at the time of the incident. Upon exiting his wife's ...