Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Ankeli Emmanuel (Sokoto)
No fewer than 12 persons were said to have lost their lives on Sunday as bandits and local vigilantes clash in Gandi village in Rabah local government area of Sokoto State, locals confirmed.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
The Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria (AIB -N) has been mandated by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) to lead the investigation into the crash of a military aircraft that occurred on Friday in Kaduna, in which the Chief of Army Staff and other military officers died.
By Yusuf Lawan (Yobe State Correspondent)
National Chairman of the APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, has consoled the nation, President Muhammadu Buhari and the entire Nigerian Army over the sudden tragic death of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru and the other senior military officers in a plane crash on Friday evening in Kaduna.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief/Defence Correspondent) @CeleOkaf11
Tragedy struck this Friday evening, May 21, 2021, as the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru, and about ten other military officers and crew members, died in a plane crash that occurred in Kaduna state.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief/Defence Correspondent) (@CeleOkaf11)
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, has charged officers and men of the Directorate of Army Public Relations(DAPR) on the need to enhance their capacity on effective information management.
By Thelma VeraCruze (Bureau Chief South South, in Portharcourt)
The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has launched the new special security action plan, 'Operation R P' in the South-South region of the country.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has flagged off a new special operational action plan code-named 'Operation RP' for the stabilization of security order in the South-East Geopolitical Zone of the country.
By Ankeli Emmanuel (Sokoto)
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has re-emphasized that the security situation in Nigeria should be of great concern to all and sundry.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief/Defence Correspondent) @CeleOkaf11
The Nigerian Army, on Thursday, refuted a news report published by an Online news medium (not Nigerian NewsLeader Newspaper Online), that Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) had distributed Ramadan welfare packages to some residents of Borno and Yobe States
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief/Defence Correspondent) @CeleOkaf11
Former Chief of Defence Staff in the late General Sani Abacha military junta, Lieutenant General Joshua Nimyel Dogonyaro, hasn't passed at 80
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered a nationwide deployment of Police officers and other operational assets of the Force for water-tight security ahead of the ongoing 2021 Eid-el-Fitr celebration.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief/Defence Correspondent) @CeleOkaf11
The second in command to Ikonso, the slain former IPOB/ESN Commander, Awurum Eze, has finally been arrested by troops in Aba, a major commercial city of Abia state, the Nigerian Army said on Wednesday.
