Tag: Boko Haram
Kaduna police detonates bomb
Femi Adi/ kaduna Democracy Day in the Nigerian city of Kaduna would have been a bloody affair but for the…
Boko Haram Shoots Imam, Muslims At Prayers
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members opened fire on Muslim worshippers outside the home of a controversial cleric in…
2 killed as gunmen attack cleric, muslim worshippers
An anti-Boko Haram muslim cleric in Potiskum, Yobe state in Nigeria’s north east has escaped death after gunmen opened fire…
4 poker players shot dead in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Unidentified gun men at the week end invaded a fun spot at Gada, Kwanra Cashew in Panshekara, Kano,…
Boko Haram kills Muslim cleric, prison guard
Gunmen killed a Muslim cleric and a retired prison guard on Saturday in northeastern Nigeria, residents and a medic said,…
Be Ready For Fire For Fire If Dialogue Fails, Gowon Tells Boko Haram
Former military head of state, General Yakubu Gowon (GCFR) Wednesday urged terrorist group Boko Haram to embrace dialogue, else, the…
Remove Subsidy On Boko Haram —Damola Awoyokun
To Rabiu Kwakwaso, Governor of Kano state, northwest Nigera, the Legion of Mary or Salvation Army is not different from…
Nigeria: security forces stumble on bomb factory
Security forces found weapons and bomb-making stocks during a house raid Saturday in the violence-plagued central Nigerian city of Jos,…
Boko Haram Targets Northern Govt. Properties
The Islamic sect, Boko Haram has issued new threats warning the 19 governors of northern Nigeria to be prepared as…
I’m at Loss why Media are Targets of Boko Haram —Rivers CP
Media practitioners in Nigeria have been advised to be more security conscious and at a time when the fundamentalist Islamic…
Boko Haram Gets N40m From Algeria
The extremist group Boko Haram has received a N40 million cash backing from an Algerian terrorist organisation, according to an…
Don’t talk with Boko Haram, leader urges govt
A Leader of Hausa Community in Abia, Alhaji Mohammed Umaru has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to jettison plans to dialogue…
Kano: gunmen on motor bikes kill at least 5
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Five persons were feared dead in Kano, northwest Nigeria when unknown gun men invaded Tukuntawa Quarters along Zoo…
Borno: 13 arrested over attack on police station
The Borno Police Command said it had arrested 13 suspects in connection with Saturday’s attack on Mafa police station in Mafa Local…
Oyo state-born Boko Haram commander arrested
Nigerian troops in Kano arrested a suspected leading Boko Haram militant in a raid Friday, a day after the restive…
Boko Haram: Raid yields bombs, guns, trucks of cans
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Security forces in Kano northwest Nigeria during a dawn raid today discovered a number of Sub machine guns,…
2014 World Cup Qualifiers: Boko Haram Forced Eagles To Calabar —NFF
Nigeria has moved its coming World Cup and African Cup of Nations qualifiers over fears of attacks by Boko Haram,…
Army arrests 2 Boko Haram members, kills 1
Soldiers in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed a suspected member of the Boko Haram Islamist sect and wounded…
Bomb Scare: Security Still Lax At Lagos Airport
Planes continued to take off and land at the Murtala Muhammed Airport today after a bomb scare last night that…
Boko Haram: The Final Warning By CAN —Joe Igbokwe
Last week, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, President Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor issued what he called the final warning to the…
Police Detonate Explosives At BUK
It would have been yet another tragedy in the old site of Bayero University Kano, BUK, northwest Nigeria today, but…
BOKO HARAM: Negotiation Will Encourage Crime -SEN. ABE
Against the backdrop of recent calls by a section of the country that the federal government should open up negotiation…
Protesters taunt Nigerian troops over bloody market attack
Crowds of protesters took to the streets of the Nigerian city of Potiskum Monday over a deadly market attack last…
NPAN Decries Boko Haram Attacks
The Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN, has condemned attacks by Boko Haram on media houses across the country and…
Nigeria: 4 Boko Haram members killed in shootout
Soldiers in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killed four suspected members of Boko Haram Islamist sect in a raid…
NUJ President Worried Over Fresh Threat To Media
Malam Muhammad Garba, President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Wednesday expressed concern over new threats by the…
Boko Haram’s Media Bombing Campaign: Matters Arising —Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema
With the bombing of ‘This day’, ‘The Sun’, and ‘The Moment’ newspaper offices by Boko Haram, the terrorist war in…
Boko Haram, Politicians And Taxes
As public servants loot our treasury and Boko Haram wreaks havoc and spills innocent blood, many are asking, ‘why do…
34 Killed As Gunmen Attack Cattle Market
Gunmen armed with explosives killed at least 34 people in Yobe State, Northeastern Nigeria, when they attacked a cattle market…
Boko Haram Plans To Wipe Out Christians —CAN
The Southern Christians Association of Nigeria, CAN, has raised the alarm that there is an agenda to wipe out Christians…