Tag: Boko Haram
Kano Luxury Bus Bombing: Operators Seek Police Protection
Following Tuesday evening bomb threat on a luxury bus along Zaria Road, Kano, northwest Nigeria, the management of New Road…
Boko Haram: Time For Nigerians To Defend Themselves
Last Sunday, the Christian community in Chibok, Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, watched helplessly as members of the Islamic fundamentalist group Boko…
US General details Boko Haram link’s with Mali’s Al Qaeda
General Carter F.Ham, an American military commander in Africa has detailed how Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants have been receiving training…
Boko Haram bombs 2 Nigerian cities
Two Nigerian cities rocked with bomb explosions Monday, believed to be the handiwork of militants of the Boko Haram sect.…
Boko Haram strikes terror at night, kill 10
Like a thief in the night, suspected Boko Haram fighters went on the rampage in northeast Nigeria overnight, killing 10…
Sokoto Sultan urges Nigeria to tackle insecurity
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Mohammed Sa’ad Abubakar over the weekend warned that Nigeria’s development will continue to…
Nigeria: Boko Haram militants burn churches, border posts
It was not going to be another violence free Sunday in Nigeria as suspected members of the Islamist extremist group…
Bombs: 2 Senior army officers kicked out of Jaji
Almost a week after an embarrassing twin suicide bombing of a military church in Jaji, Kaduna state, Nigeria’s military high…
Nigerian soldiers uncover another bomb factory
BY FEMI ADI/KADUNA Four days after a suicide bomber attacked the Saint Andrew Military Protestant Church, Jaji , a combined…
Jaji bombings: Top military officer among injured victims
BY FEMI ADI/KADUNA A senior military officer, Air Commodore Alechenu Ekagbo has been confirmed to be among the victims of…
Nigeria: Gunmen attack police detention centre
The detention centre run by Nigerian Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Garki Abuja, came under the fusillade of bullets this…
Couple, child killed by auto-bike assassins
Two motorcycle-riding gunmen killed a Christian couple and their child as they were about to leave their home for church…
Reports: 20 ladies in mini-skirts killed in Maiduguri
Twenty Nigerian ladies in trousers and mini-skirts were killed overnight by yet to be identified gunmen in the troubled Nigerian…
N50m offered for capture of Boko Haram’s Shekau
Nigeria’s military went the way of USA’s FBI, offering Friday hundreds of thousands of dollars in rewards for information leading…
Oritsejafor: The Pastor and his Controversies
Leader of Nigeria’s Christian community and fiery preacher, Ayo Oritsejafor has made a career of ruffling feathers every step of…
Jonathan: No dialogue with Boko Haram
Lanre babalola/New editor President Goodluck Jonathan this evening dispelled reports that his government has started dialogue with the Islamic fundamentalist…
Nigerian lawmaker killed by assassins on auto bike
Gunmen riding on motorcycles have killed a prominent politician in Nigeria’s second city of Kano, officials said Sunday amid a…
Revealed: Soldiers watched as Gen. Shuwa was killed
A relation of General Muhammed Shuwa, who was killed 2 November by gunmen believed to be members of the Boko…
Alleged murderer of General Shuwa killed
Nigeria’s military on Thursday claimed to have killed a Boko Haram commander behind the recent high-profile assassination of a retired…
Boko Haram: The Dialogue Option
By Ben Nanaghan On 1 November, 2012 the dreaded Islamic fundamentalist organization known as boko haram offered the olive branch…
Olive Branch?
Boko Haram’s offer of a conditional ceasefire throws up more questions than answers About a forthnight ago, the violent fundamentalist…
Boko Haram: 5 Igbo iron welders killed in Yobe
Five Igbo residents of Gaidam in Nigeria’s Yobe state have been killed by gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram members,…
3 cops killed in assault on police station
Gunmen on Friday killed three policemen and burnt three churches as well as a school in Bonny Yadi, in Nigeria’s…
Soyinka: Peace talks with Boko Haram wrong
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel literature laureate said Friday that trying to end a deadly insurgency by Islamist extremist group…
Boko Haram bombs army convoy in Mubi
Mubi, the nigerian town in Adamawa state, where scores of students were slaughtered on independence day, is back in the…
Boko Haram: 4 killed, 4 arrested
Blasts and gunfire that rocked Gashua, the prison town in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Yobe, early toady may have come…
195 Suspected Hoodlums Arrested In Lagos
At least 195 suspected hoodlums have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. The hoodlums,…
Don’t Reward Terrorists
The plan by the Federal Government to compensate Boko Haram for all the atrocities it has committed is a great…
Soldiers on patrol after bombs, gunfire rock Gashua
Explosions and gunfire rocked the prison town of Gashua in Yobe state early today, with soldiers deployed to maintain the…
Terrorism Trial: Court rejects witnesses against Ndume
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The ongoing trial of a serving senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria before an Abuja…