Tag: Boko Haram
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…
Zakari Biu Sacked
It was the end of the road to Zakari Biu, the infamous police officer indicted over various allegations of human…
Kano Explosions: Four Boko Haram Members Arrested
The Kano Joint Security Task Force said this afternoon that they arrested four members of Boko Haram during a gun…
Bombs, Gunfire Rock Kano
.Update: Army Arrests 4 Boko Haram Bombers Sounds of bomb blasts and several gun shots scared residents of Tinshama in…
The Boko Haram Story You May Not Have Heard Of —Hean Herskovits
I found this on Facebook – it is a detailed view of the Boko Haram story (Note: this is not…
Boko Haram claims Maiduguri Market Attacks
A man claiming to be a spokesman for Nigeria’s extremist sect Boko Haram said Tuesday that the group was behind…
Fashola Bemoans Lack Of Adequate Security At Secretariat
In the wake of Boko Haram attacks in the country, Governor Babatunde Fashola has bemoaned the lack of adequate security…
Boko Haram: Many killed in Maiduguri market
Suspected Boko Haram militants opened fire and set off bombs at a market in the Nigerian northeastern city of Maiduguri…
Boko Haram Executes Cleric, District Head
The Boko Haram terrorists on Sunday night executed Alhaji Mustapha Geidam, the Distract Head of Geidam in Yobe State, North…
Boko Haram: 5,000 Northerners Return To Bayelsa
The new chairman of the Northern Community in Bayelsa, Alhaji Dahiru Yaru, yesterday confirmed the return of over 5,000 Northerners,…
Boko Haram chief suspects in Nigeria’s jail break
Gunmen affiliated to the Islamic Sect, Boko Haram were being suspected as the mastermind and executors of a jail break…
FG Urged To Allow State Police
Archbishop Magnus Atilade, President of Christian Welfare Initiative (CWI) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to look into the possibility of…
Xmas Bombing: Nigeria declares ex-soldier wanted
Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) has declared a Habibu Bama, a former soldier, wanted in connection with the Christmas Day…
Gunmen shoot cop as curfew relaxed In Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Two armed men suspected to be members of Boko Haram have attacked the Kano office of the Independent…
2 Bombs Rock Kaduna On Valentine’s Day, Cop Killed
Two bomb blasts rocked Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria this morning, killing a policeman. The first blast happened at Angwar Seriki…
Speeding Driver shot in kaduna Governor’s House
By Femi Adi/ Kaduna A man who drove dangerously into Government House in Kaduna state was shot by soldiers today,…
Boko Haram gunmen kill 2 Igbo traders, muslim cleric
Gunmen have shot dead two Igbo Christian traders in Potiskum,Yobe state amid a wave of violence blamed on Islamist group…
Boko Haram still unrelenting as bombs explode in city
Two explosions went off Friday outside a customs building in Nigeria’s flashpoint city of Maiduguri, the base of Boko Haram…
Boko Haram, ACF And Igbo Exodus From The North: Implications For Nigeria —Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema
Recently I read the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) ‘s response to the massive Igbo exodus from Northern Nigeria in the…
Boko Haram militants disguise as Nigerian cops
The head of the secret police in the Nigerian city of Kano, ravaged by violence claimed by the Islamist Boko…
Boko Haram Claims Army barracks bombs, Disowns Video
A purported spokesman for Boko Haram said the people shown on the Nigeria Television Authority yesterday claiming to be sect…
Boko Haram: Nigerians Are More Scared Of Our Police Officers
Hodewu Suru Avoseh, a representative of Badagry Constituency 2 in the Lagos State House of Assembly, says the country is…
Police station stormed in Kano, bomb blasts in Maiduguri
Gunmen and bombers, suspected to be militants of the Boko Haram sect have burnt down Sharada police station in Nigeria’s…