Tag: Boko Haram
We Are Kept In Desert, Says Head Of Kidnapped French Family
Patriarch of the French family kidnapped in Cameroon has spoken, according to a report by the news agency, AFP. In…
Boko Haram: A People’s Alternative To Peace
By Adewale Adeoye Recently, tear-soaked Mrs Deborah Shetima from Borno state gave a gory account of how her husband was…
Boko Haram Kills Two PDP Leaders
Two prominent members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Borno State, northeast Nigeria, have been shot dead by gunmen…
Re: 83% Blocks For Northerners: A Monumental Scandal
By Ben Nanaghan On March 6, 2013, the Nigeria Senate in a closed door session debated the salient aspects of…
Conflict Over Figure Of Slain Christians
Christians in Kano are engaged in a hot dispute with the police over the actual number of their members killed…
Britain identifies citizen killed in Nigeria
Britain has revealed the identity of its citizen killed by Nigeria’s terror group, Anasaru. He was Brendan Vaughan. He was…
Terrorists strike in Kano after VP Sambo’s visit
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Gunmen on tricycles launched attacks at Hotoro, Sharada and Dakata areas of Kano, northwest Nigeria killing three pesons…
Italy: Nigeria’s hostage killings ‘horrific terrorism’
Italy’s foreign ministry has described as ”horrific terrorism”, the killing by Ansaru terror group in Nigeria of seven foreign hostages…
Kano Killings: Police, CAN Disagree On Casualty Figure
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the Police Command in Kano, northwest Nigeria are in disagreement over the casualty…
Jonathan Rejects Amnesty Calls For Boko Haram
Nigeria’s president, visiting the region at the heart of an Islamist insurgency for the first time since he was elected…
Nigeria: 13 Christians killed in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN has urged the authorities to probe the gruesome killing of 13 factory…
Boko Haram Beheads Informant
A man accused of being an informant has been beheaded by Islamist group Boko Haram. The incident was recorded in…
Shekau’s Boko Haram in new video beheads ‘informant’
The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram denied any ceasefire deal with the government in a video obtained Tuesday in which…
Boko Haram Attacks Nigerian Police Station
Suspected members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram attacked a police station with gunfire and explosives in northeast Nigeria near…
20 Boko Haram members killed by Nigeria’s troops
No fewer than 20 militants suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect were killed today in Monguno by…
2 Nigerian cops killed in aborted kidnap of foreigners
Gunmen have stormed a residence in Tella, Taraba state in northeastern Nigeria, that housed foreign workers, killing two police guards…
Boko Haram commander killed
Nigerian troops claimed they killed a suspected commander of the Boko Haram and three of his lieutenants during an operation…
Nigeria’s New Face Of Terror
Ansaru, Nigeria’s new terrorist group in Nigeria specialises in hostage taking With its hands full and security resources overstretched battling…
Boko Haram posts video of kidnapped French family
A video appeared on YouTube Monday of seven kidnapped members of a French family with their abductors, who claimed to…
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…
French family kidnapped unveiled as search intensifies
A kidnapped French family of seven has likely been separated into two groups by their abductors, France said Thursday, as…
Kidnap threats compound woes of northern Nigeria
A string of kidnappings of foreigners blamed on Nigerian Islamists has added a new layer of insecurity in the country’s…
France vows not to surrender to Nigerian terrorists
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Wednesday that his country would not give in to “terrorists” after the kidnapping of…
France urges citizens vacate northern Cameroon
France on Wednesday urged its citizens to leave northern Cameroon after seven members of a French family were seized in…
Briton, Greek, Italian, 4 others abducted in Nigeria
Gunmen stormed a construction site in northern Nigeria, kidnapping seven foreign workers and killing a security guard, police said Sunday,…
Boko Haram bombs Maiduguri again, kills 2
A bomb explosion targeting soldiers killed at least two people on Friday in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri while…
3 Doctors slain in northern Nigeria are North Koreans
Men armed with knives slit the throats of three North Korean doctors in a pre-dawn attack Sunday in the volatile…
3 Chinese doctors slain in Northern Nigeria
Armed men killed three Chinese doctors in a pre-dawn attack Sunday in Nigeria’s town of Potiskum, Yobe state, police said,…
WHO, UNICEF condemn Kano killings
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The World Health Organisation (WHO)and its sister agency, the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) last night…
Dodgy Peace Offer
There are doubts over the genuineness of ceasefire declared by a Boko Haram chieftain in Borno State In the past…