Tag Archives: CAMEROON

FG PLAN MILITARY BASES IN BAKASSI; ARMY FOB PLANNED FO IKANG, NAVAL FOB TO BE SET UP ON DAYSPRING 1 ISLAND

Nigerian Army Amphibious Forces Suncraft landing craft exits Cameroon’s Bakassi Peninsula, Aug.2008 Marine base of Cameroon’s Rapid Intervention Battalion in the Bakassi Peninsula(Photo: XINHUA) DAILY PUNCH 2013-04-10 There are indications that the Federal Government is concluding arrangements to set up … Continue reading

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FRENCH SPECIAL FORCES DEPLOYED IN CAMEROON

(Photo credit: EURONEWS) REUTERS Wednesday, February 20,2013 French special forces have arrived in northern Cameroon to help locate a French family who were kidnapped yesterday and moved to Nigeria, a local governor said today. The abduction of three adults and … Continue reading

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BOKO HARAM ‘INFORMANT’ KILLED IN KOUSSERI, FAR NORTH REGION OF CAMEROON

Boko Haram militants pose in front of satellite imagery of Bauchi, NE Nigeria AFRICA REVIEW By YUH TIMCHIA in Yaoundé Monday, January 21 2013 A man suspected to be a former member of the Islamist sect Boko Haram in northern … Continue reading

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BOKO HARAM’S INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS – JACOB ZENN (WEST POINT COMBATING TERRORISM CENTRE/JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION)

Colonel(rtd)Sambo Dasuki, National Security Adviser Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Jan 14, 2013 Author: Jacob Zenn Since carrying out its first attack under Abubakar Shekau’s leadership in September 2010, Boko Haram has unleashed a wave of violence in northern … Continue reading

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6 TRAFFICKED CAMEROONIANS ENROUTE NIGER INTERCEPTED IN KATSINA, NW NIGERIA

Mrs Rose Uzoma, Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service DAILY TRUST Katsina Tuesday, 16 October 2012 Six Cameroonians suspected to be victims of human trafficking have been intercepted in Koza village of Mai’Adua local government in Katsina State in their attempt … Continue reading

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5 DAYS TO GO: JONATHAN RAISES PANEL ON BAKASSI

Nigerian Army Amphibious Forces Suncraft landing craft exits Cameroon’s Bakassi Peninsula, Aug.2008 DAILY INDEPENDENT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 2012 Abuja At last President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered a review of the controversial 2002 International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that handed … Continue reading

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HOW INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY, BID TO CHECK U.S INFLUENCE ROBBED NIGERIA OF BAKASSI

Nigerian Army Amphibious Forces Suncraft landing craft exits Cameroon’s Bakassi Peninsula, Aug.2008 VANGUARD September 7, 2012 BUT for fears by Europe that the United States of America might establish a military base in Bakassi Peninsula to the strategic and socio-political … Continue reading

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NIGERIANS TASK GOVERNMENT ON RECLAIMING BAKASSI..LEEWAY EXISTS FOR APPEAL OF ICJ RULING

Colonel(rtd)Sambo Dasuki, National Security Adviser VOICE OF NIGERIA Posted on August 24, 2012 By Williams Osewezina Lagos Nigerians are demanding that the government take steps to reverse the ceding of the Bakassi Peninsula in Cross River State, southern Nigeria, before … Continue reading

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BAKASSI PENINSULA: PIRATES KIDNAP CAMEROONIAN PRINCE

Marine base of Cameroon’s Rapid Intervention Battalion in the Bakassi Peninsula (Photo: XINHUA) August 21, 2012 YAOUNDE (AFP) Pirates have kidnapped a Cameroonian traditional prince and his companion on the country’s volatile Bakassi peninsula, a security source and media reports … Continue reading

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U.S CONVENES GULF OF GUINEA SECURITY MEETING

US AFRICOM Commander, General Carter F. Ham CAMEROON POST By Divine Ntaryike Jr Monday, March 26, 2012 Escalating piracy, multiform trafficking and serious threats to stability in the Gulf of Guinea are increasingly troubling the U.S. Its diplomatic mission in … Continue reading

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