Tag: Boko Haram sect
Mortuary records reveal heavy Boko Haram human losses
Just a few days after Amnesty International published a report accusing Nigeria’s military of killing close to 1000 Boko Haram…
Nigerian army lifts phone blackout in Adamawa
Nigeria’s military on Thursday approved the restoration of phone services in Adamawa state where troops are pursuing Islamist insurgents, signalling…
Squeezed by the military, Boko Haram targets schools
Boko Haram insurgents have massacred dozens of students in recent weeks in Nigeria’s northeast, opening a new phase in their…
UK mulls Boko Haram ban
The proscribed Nigerian-based Islamist extremist group Boko Haram is to be further banned in Britain under anti-terror laws, the British…
Boko Haram: Vigilante group burns home of ANPP boss
A vigilante group claiming to help Nigeria’s military authorities battle insurgents in Borno State has set fire to the home…
ACN: Boko Haram ban order limits press freedom
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that the recent proscription order against Boko Haram and Ansaru, desirable as…
Abductors of Nigeria’s ex-oil minister demand ransom
Nigeria’s former oil minister was kidnapped Friday by gunmen who stormed his vehicle outside a mosque in the restive city…
14 terror suspects killed in Easter day raid
Nigerian Soldiers raided a suspected hideout for Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in northern Nigeria’s largest city of Kano on…
Jonathan promises to end terrorism in Nigeria
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated his promise to end the insecurity that is fast taking a toll…
5 poker players killed in Nigerian state eve of polls
Gunmen on Friday killed five persons and injured seven others at the Bagadaza area of the Gombe metropolis in Gombe…
Nigeria: 9 polio vaccinators killed by gunmen
Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano with agency report Gunmen attacked two clinics where polio vaccinators had gathered in Kano city, northwest Nigeria, on…
Police confirm attack in Kano
By Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIG, in charge of Zone 1, Mr. David Olufemi Omojola, Thursday told…
SSS Chief Advises Boko Haram To Embrace Dialogue
The Director of the State Security Service (SSS) in Borno, Alhaji Abdullahi Ahmed, has advised members of the Boko Haram…
Nigeria police warns on bombs in Xmas gifts
The Police in Nigeria’s Gombe State on Thursday urged residents of the state to be on the look out for…
Boko Haram: Bombers Promised 72 Virgins In Heaven
Details emerged yesterday of the incentives promised suicide bombers of the Boko Haram sect to carry out their deadly missions.…