The Nigeria Air Force has deployed three helicopters to tackle looters that descended on National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in Kubwa, an Abuja suburb, in the early hours of Tuesday. The helicopters were seen around 10:00 am hovering around the orientation camp. It was unclear if the helicopters touched down in the premises […]Read More
The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) has debunked reports that its helicopters dropped weapons for herdsmen in the forest area of Akwuke Community in Enugu South Local Government Area. A statement by Flight Lt. Faith Aigbeoghain, the Acting Public Relations and Information Officer of the Headquarters Ground Training Command, described the report as “false, “deliberately misleading […]Read More
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has taken delivery of two new Agusta 109 Power attack helicopters, to intensify its anti-terror war in the north east.. Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, broke the news to troops of the Air Task Force (ATF) Operation LAFIYA DOLE (OPLD), during lunch to mark the […]Read More
The Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) and Germany are strengthening collaborative efforts to enhance equipment and technical support for Nigerian military to further improve operational efficiency. The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin made this revelation while receiving a delegation of the German Armed Forces led by the Commander Corps of Engineers, Lutz […]Read More
The Nigerian Air Force has deployed its Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance aircraft to conduct aerial patrols over crisis-prone communities in Kaduna State, as part of efforts to end killings in the state. One of our correspondents learnt that NAF aircraft had begun aerial surveillance over areas, including Gonin Gora, Kajuru, Kujama and Kasuwar Maganin. It […]Read More
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says its Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has destroyed an Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) logistics base, near Arege in the northern part of Borno. NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said […]Read More
The Nigerian Air Force has deployed fighter aircraft and a detachment of special forces personnel to Sokoto to boost anti-banditry operations in the North-West. The air assets were deployed under the operation code named Operation Diran Mikiya. The deployment is aimed at boosting the efforts by the military to deal with insecurity in some parts […]Read More
The remains of the five officers on the Mi-35M Helicopter that crashed in combat on January 2 are to be buried in Abuja today with full military honours, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) announced yesterday. NAF’s spokesman Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola said the gallant military personnel would be burried at the National Military Cemetery, Abuja. […]Read More
The Nigerian Air Force has deployed no fewer than six fighter and surveillance aircraft to the general area of the Headquarters of the 7 Brigade Multinational Joint Task Force, Baga, Borno State, which was attacked by Boko Haram terrorists on Wednesday and Thursday. Reports learnt that the deployments were done to combat the Islamic State […]Read More
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