Tag: Boko Haram
Deal With Boko Haram, Senate Tells Jonathan
Rising after a lengthy deliberation on a motion condemning the bomb explosions in Kaduna and other parts of the country,…
Boko Haram’s Bomb factory found in Adamawa
Nigerian authorities have discovered a house allegedly being used by the militant Boko Haram to manufacture bombs in the country’s…
Bomb Scare At Abuja Big Hotels, US Warns Citizens To Steer Clear
The US Embassy in Nigeria warned on Wednesday that Islamist group Boko Haram may be planning attacks in the capital…
Boko Haram plans to bomb Abuja hotels, US warns
The US embassy in Nigeria warned on Wednesday that Islamist group Boko Haram may be planning attacks in the capital…
13 Boko Haram members arrested, one killed
Nigerian soldiers killed one suspected member of the Islamist Boko Haram sect and arrested 13 others in dawn raids Tuesday…
ACN To PDP: Stop Using Religion To Destabilise Southwest
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against continuing to play the religious card…
Boko Haram targets English soccer, kills 2 fans
Gunmen, suspected to be members of the deadly Boko haram sect, shot dead two men near a community centre showing…
More Die in Boko Haram assault on Border Post
The death toll from an attack by suspected members of Islamist group Boko Haram on a town along Nigeria’s border…
Official: 41 Dead In Kaduna Blasts
Three more persons have died from the injuries they sustained during the Easter Sunday car bomb blast in Kaduna. This…
Boko Haram: Kano Police Train 1000 Officers On Anti-Terrorism Tactics
In its bid to confront terrorist activities, police in Kano northwest Nigeria have commenced training and retraining of its men…
Boko Haram Kills 5 Igbo Traders
Suspected Islamists have killed seven people in a market in northern Nigeria’s restive city of Maiduguri in the latest deadly…
3 terror suspects killed in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Security blanket is up in Kano as intelligence reports reveal a plot by a group of terrorists to…
US seeks to list Boko Haram as terror group
Two Republican lawmakers on Monday urged the United States to designate Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a terrorist group, warning not…
Bomb Scare At NNPC Headquarters
Security was beefed up this morning around the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, building located around Central Area of Abuja,…
Boko Haram militants attack police stations
Suspected members of Islamist group Boko Haram attacked three police stations in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, burning two of them…
Boko Haram: US plans palliatives in Northern Nigeria
The United States said Thursday it wanted to step up development assistance to Nigeria’s restive Muslim-majority north as it urged…
Gunmen Kill Police Inspector In Maiduguri
Suspected Boko Haram militants on Wednesday killed a police inspector while shopping at the Gamboru market in Maiduguri. The name…
Jonathan Advised To Dialogue With Boko Haram
Prophet Babawole Shitta of St. Theresa’s Church of Christ (Cherubim and Seraphim), Mushin, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has urged the Federal…
3 Killed In Boko Haram Attack
A former police officer and two of his friends were killed Sunday in a shootout in Nigeria that also killed…
JTF Foils Boko Haram Attack, Kills 2
The city of Kano, northwest Nigeria would have boiled again today but for the intervention of security operatives who foiled…
9 Boko Haram Members Killed, 2 Arrested
It was war at Tudun Wada Local Government Area, Kano, northwest Nigeria, Wednesday when the police engaged members of the…
Terrorism Financing: Ndume Moves To Abort Trial
Embattled Senator Aliyu Ndume representing Bornu South Senatorial District at the National Assembly who is standing trial on an alleged…
Terrorism: Nigerian Senator Moves To abort trial
Nnamdi Felix / abuja Senator Aliyu Ndume representing Bornu South senatorial District at the National Assembly who is standing trial…
Boko Haram strikes again, kills 3
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Gunmen suspected to be mercenaries of Boko Haram, on a motorcycle this evening in Kano, northwest Nigeria attacked…
Boko Haram Threatens Journalist
A journalist in Nigeria mentioned as a possible intermediary in talks between the West African nation’s government and a radical…
Boko Haram: Group Seeks Full Investigation Of Suspects
The Committee for Democracy and Rights of the People (CDRP), has called on government authorities to ensure that suspected criminals…
My Visit To Boko Haram Den —Simon Ateba
In 2009, I boarded a plane at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, southwest Nigeria. The pilot moved the twin-engine…
Boko Haram: Pains, Anguish For Civil Servants
In the last few months, civil servants at the Lagos State Government Secretariat have been going through a harrowing experience…
Nigeria: Mediators Quit in Boko Haram Talks
Ibrahim Datti Ahmed, the muslim cleric mediating in peace talks between the Nigerian government and the Boko Haram Islamist sect…
Nigeria: Boko Haram Runs PDP Out of Borno
The Peoples Democratic Party in Borno State said it had shifted its congress to Gombe due to the current security…