Tag: Boko Haram
‘Jonathan Must Organise National Prayers’
As threats by the Boko Haram terrorist sect heightens, President Goodluck Jonathan has been urged to organise national prayers to…
2 Cops Injured In Gunfight With Boko Haram
Armed with guns and explosives, assailants suspected to be Boko Haram members who were riding a motorcycle this morning attempted…
Hostage Deaths: Abductors Claimed ransom paid
Plans to free two Western hostages were well underway and some ransom paid by their families when they were killed…
Boko Haram attack foiled in Bama
Police in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state have repelled an attack on a police post in Bama, Borno state, by gunmen…
Boko Haram denies foreign hostage taking
Nigerian terror group, the Boko Haram on Friday denied any involvement in the kidnapping of a Briton and Italian who…
Nigeria’s Failed Hostage Rescue:Italy rage at Britain
ROME, March 9, 2012 (AFP) – Italy’s Premier Mario Monti held a security committee meeting on Friday as anger spread…
Jonathan Condemns Killing Of Foreigners In Sokoto
President Gooodluck Ebele Jonathan has condemned the killing of two kidnapped foreigners – an Italian and a British citizen –…
2 foreigners Killed In Failed Rescue Attempt In Nigeria
. Jonathan promises to prosecute the killers A British and Italian hostages have been killed after a botched rescue attempt…
Bombs Rock Gombe Town; Banks, Police Stations Attacked
In what could be described as fresh madness, unidentified gunmen on Wednesday evening attacked banks, police stations and shops in…
Boko Haram Attacks Police Station, Prison
Suspected Islamists have attacked a prison, police station and local government office in northeastern Nigeria, wounding at least three police…
Top US Official Pledges Security Help For Nigeria
A top US official on Monday pledged to help Nigeria address security threats as Africa’s most populous nation and largest…
Boko Haram attacks Police boss’s home, kills 2 guards
Gunmen, believed to be Boko Haram militants, have attacked the Kano home of the Imo state commissioner of police, Mohammed…
Protest In Kano Over Killing Of Motorcyclist
An irate mob lit bonfires and marched through Kano to protest the alleged shooting to death of a motorcyclist on…
Nigeria: War in The North, War In The South!
Bayo Onanuga Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the man who declared Biafran secession in 1967 and triggered Nigeria’s first civil war was…
Boko Haram Destroys 3 Schools In Borno
Suspected Boko Haram sect members destroyed three more schools on Wednesday night in an ongoing assault on schools in Maiduguri,…
Robbers Blow Up Bank With Dynamite
Robbers used explosives suspected to be dynamite yesterday to blow up the safe of a first generation bank, opposite the…
Borrowing From Boko Haram —Chichi Aniagolu-Okoye
As a sociologist, I am constantly fascinated by society and the dynamics that propel and shape it. The Nigerian society…
Boko Haram Burns 4 Schools
Members of the Boko Haram on Monday set fire to Maiduguri Experimental School, a private school in Ruwan Zafi area…
IGP Talks Tough On Boko Haram, Says Police Restrategising
The acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Muhammed Abubakar, said on Monday in Jos that the police was “re-strategising” in the…
32 Robbers Escape From Prison
Following the jailbreak of Wednesday, 15 February in Koton-Karfe, Kogi State, North central Nigeria, 32 armed robbery suspects who escaped…
A twist in the tale: 8 christian bombers arrested
The police in the northern Nigeria state of Bauchi said Sunday they had arrested eight Christians suspected of planning to…
Bloody Sunday In Jos as Suicide bombers strike
Two suicide bombers drove an explosives packed Volkswagen Bora car into a church in Nigeria’s volatile central city of Jos…
An Encounter with Boko Haram Fighters
In an article headlined’ In Nigeria, A Deadly group’s rage has local roots’, The New York Times, reports on an…
Curfew slammed on Gombe after Boko Haram killings
A 24 hour curfew has been imposed on Nigeria’s Gombe town in the wake of an assault by Boko Haram…
Boko Haram kills 5 in Kano mosque, attacks prison
Suspected Boko Haram militants late Friday shot dead five Muslim worshippers at a mosque in the Nigerian city of Kano,…
Boko Haram: Northern Group wants JTF to respect human rights
A coalition of politicians, academics, professionals and businessmen from Northern Nigeria has deplored the insurgency that militants of the Boko…
Boko Haram: Bombs Detector Vans On Standby At Eagles Camp
With incessant bomb blasts in Nigeria due to the activities of Boko Haram in the northern part of the country,…
Bayowa Battles Boko Haram
Singer, music producer, marketer and presenter, Gbenga Adewusi, has launched an attack on Boko Haram, currently tormenting Nigeria. P.M.Entertainment learnt…
Boko Haram now burns schools in Nigeria
Boko Haram gunmen have burnt down a school in Nigeria’s troubled city of Maiduguri, the second such attack in two…
Gunmen Kill 4 Cops In Kano
Unidentified gunmen this morning struck in the city of Kano, Northwest Nigeria. During the attack, four policemen were feared dead…