Troops of two divisions of the Nigerian Army have uncovered and destroyed a massive illegal refinery in Okoloma, Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State and Umuahale area in Ukwa West LGA of Abia State.
• Gen Chris Ali LAGOS - Major-General Chris Ali, a former Chief of Army Staff, is dead. He died in Lagos today (Sunday) at a military hospital. He was aged 79.
Details as Nigeria’s first female Major General dies. She joined the Army in 1972, retired in 1997, and died in London, United Kingdom on November 8, 2023.
The first female Nigerian Army Major-General, Aderonke Kale has been confirmed dead. Aderonke’s death was confirmed in a statement released on Thursday by E. O. Okafor, the president of the Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI). While mourning her departure, Okafor described her demise as an “irreparable loss”, adding that burial arrangements would be announced by her family.
Civic group, the Middle Belt Patriots (MBP), has warned against alleged genocidal threat by some members of Arewa extraction on communities in Du, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State over the killing of a Nigerian Army Major-General, Idris Alkali. Alkali was a senior army officer who was declared missing in September 2018 and later found dead with his vehicle in a pond in the area, shortly after his wife reported his departure from Abuja en route to Bauchi via Jos.