Tag: Boko Haram
Boko Haram: Jonathan pleads for US assistance
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has outlined the various security challenges facing his country, especially Boko Haram and asked for the…
Why Unemployment Is High — Ex-CBN Chief
A former Director of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Titus Okunronmu, on Monday attributed the high unemployment rate…
Tackling NYSC’s Security Challenge
With the security challenge in the country posing unprecedented threat to the continued existence of the National Youth Service Corps,…
Remorseless Killers
The Boko Haram killing machine roars loudly, claiming many lives even in fortified places Matthew Ndagoso, Archbishop of the Catholic…
Boko Haram: JTF seizes 11 rifles
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe, north eastern Nigeria on Sunday recovered 11 rifles in Kandahar Area of Damaturu,…
Nigeria nabs 28 terror suspects
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Security forces in Kano, northwest Nigeria have renewed raid on hideouts of terrorists recording 28 arrests within the…
Boko Haram loses four more commanders
Nigeria’s Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order has disclosed that it shot dead four suspected terrorist commanders of…
Multiple attacks on Nigerian City by Boko Haram
Two policemen were shot dead at a roundabout in the Nigerian City of Kano today. About the same time, a…
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,…