Tag: Boko Haram
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…
Boko Haram Bomb Police Boss’ Convoy
A suicide bomber on auto-bike, believed to be a member of the Boko Haram sect rammed into the convoy of…
Letter To Mr Labaran Maku —Dimeji Daniels
Good day, Sir. I am quite aware that you have a busy schedule, so I will be brief. Being an…
A Govt Living In Denial
The National Security Adviser, General Andrew Owoye Azazi (retd) hit the nail on the head at the 2nd Southsouth Economic…
Suicide Bomber Hits Police Commissioner’s convoy
A suicide bomb attack targeting a senior police official’s convoy in north eastern Nigeria on Monday killed at least two…
Tinubu: Two kinds of Boko Haram torment Nigeria
Any talk of a transformation agenda in the face of the unsettled issues of corruption and insecurity is bound to…
7 confirmed dead in Bayero varsity attacks
The police in Kano said seven persons died and many others injured in a bomb attack on worshippers at Bayero…
Media Attack: Don’t Be Despondent, Adegbite Urges Nigerian
As more reactions continue to trail Thursday’s attack on ThisDay and other media houses in Abuja and Kaduna by Boko…
Rivers NUJ Condemns Bomb Attack On Media
The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Rivers State Council, has condemned the bombing of the offices of ThisDay, The Sun…
Another Bomb Rocks Gombe Varsity
The Gombe State University, Gombe, Northeast Nigeria was bombed yesterday night by a gang of armed men suspected to be…
Police Beef Up Security At Media Houses
Nigerian police stepped up security at newspaper buildings on Friday as authorities probed unprecedented attacks on the media, with two…
ThisDay Bombing: Jonathan Must Wake Up Now —Makinde, Aturu, Others
Eminent Nigerians have reacted to the bombing of Thisday and other newspapers in Abuja and Kaduna State, calling on President…
US Denounces Nigerian media bombing
The United States on Thursday condemned violence against offices of a Nigerian newspaper that killed eight people, saying that the…
Kaduna records a Second bomb blast
A second bomb has exploded in the city of Kaduna, about five hours after the blast at the office of…
Nigeria Police: Captured Bomber from another state
Femi Adi/ Kaduna Nigeria’s Kaduna Police Command said the arrested bomber that was captured by vigilant members of the public…
How Thisday’s Kaduna Office Bomber Was Arrested
The suspected Boko Haram member who drove a bomb-laden car into the Kaduna office of Thisday today was arrested by…
8 Die in Bombing of Nigeria’s Thisday Offices
Nigeria’s emergency agencies and medics are still counting the dead in the suicide bombing of the Abuja office of Leaders…
Police Discover N9m Explosives In Kano
Police in Kano, northwest Nigeria, have discovered and impounded N9 million worth of explosive materials abandoned by the road-side within…
Barca/Chelsea Clash: Boko Haram Bombs Viewing Centre, Kills 6, Injures 9 In Jos
Separate bomb attacks by men believed to be members of Boko Haram sect left six persons dead in a village…
Group Vows To Cripple Oil Supply To North
A group, Association of Ethnic Nationalities, AEN, in the Niger Delta region, has vowed to cripple supply of petroleum products…
Boko Haram Threatens Handball Tourney
Indications are rife that some states may pull out of the National U-19 Handball Championships billed for Sokoto State tomorrow,…
Nigeria: 8 Boko Haram suspected killings recorded
Suspected members of Islamist group Boko Haram have killed at least eight people, including a policeman, in separate attacks in…
Ekweremadu Seeks ECOWAS Support In Tackling Boko Haram
The Deputy Senate President and Speaker of Economic of West African States ECOWAS, Parliament, Ike Ekweremadu, has hinted that Nigeria…