Tag: Boko Haram
Time To Defeat Boko Haram
After a very short break, perhaps due to the nationwide strike over fuel subsidy removal, the violent Islamic sect, Boko…
158 Suspected Boko Haram Members Arrested
A joint military task force in Nigeria arrested 158 suspected members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, security sources…
Kano Buries The Dead, The wounded bemoan fate
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Even as the Boko Haram Sect and security agencies were still locked in occasional gun duel in Kano,…
Police Kill 4 Boko Haram Suspects
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO), says four suspected Boko Haram members believed to have been…
War Is Imminent In Nigeria But God Forbid —Joe Igbokwe
I am writing this piece strictly as Joe Igbokwe and I am speaking strictly for myself only. I was born…
Boko Haram: NLC Wants Security Re-organised
The Nigeria Labour Congress has asked Federal Government to come up with far reaching actions that can help in combating…
Fresh Fear In Kano As Police Discover More Explosives
The latest discovery of abandoned explosives in parts of Kano city, Northwest Nigeria, confirms the fear that the Boko Haram…
Senator Mark: We Shall Fight Boko Haram With The Law
It may be the end of the road for Boko Haram and other terrorist organisations in Nigeria as leaders of…
Boko Haram Bombings: Igbos Flee Kano
Following Friday’s coordinated bombings of parts of Kano, which left over 160 people dead, southerners, especially Igbos, living in Sabon…
ACN Asks Jonathan To Withdraw Soldiers From Lagos
The Lagos state chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has for the umpteenth asked President Jonathan to order his…
Fiddling While The Nation Burns
The call on President Goodluck Jonathan to sanitise his cabinet has become too urgent for him to ignore in the…
Stand Up And Fight For Nigeria, Minister Pleads
The Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, has appealed to “all Nigerians to rise up to the defence of the…
Foreigners get Nigeria travel warning
Britain and New Zealand have warned their nationals against travelling to parts of Nigeria after a series of terrorist bomb…
Channels TV loses reporter in Kano Attacks
A journalist working with Channels Television was among the people killed in the multiple bombs experienced in Kano Friday. Channels…
Curfew slammed on Kano after Multiple Bombs
Islamic fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram has reportedly bombed the Zone 1 Police Headquarters in Kano and other parts of the…
Attempt To Bomb Army Barracks Foiled
Commander of 2 Brigade Nigerian Army, Brig-General Tukur Y. Buratai has disclosed the arrest of suspects with links with the…
Jonathan Silent On Ringim
Nearly 48 hours after the elapse of the marching order from the Federal Government to Hafiz Ringim, the Inspector General…
Nigeria Police Offers N50 million Reward on Fleeing Boko Haram Suspect
The Nigeria Police Force on Thursday declared Kabiru Umar (a.k.a. Kabiru Sokoto) wanted in connection with cases of bombing and…
Boko Haram Suspects Ambush Police Patrol
Suspected members of the Boko-Haram sect in Damaturu ambushed a police patrol team, resulting in an exchange of gunfire. The…
Escape Of Boko Haram Suspect: Zakari Biu Faces Dismissal, Jail
Controversial Police Commissioner Zakari Biu who was suspended yesterday over the escape of Kabiru Sokoto, a suspected Boko Haram chieftain…
Boko Haram Suspect’s Escape: Oritsejafor Wants Police CP Prosecuted
National President, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Ayo Oritsejafor has called for the immediate prosecution of the Commissioner of Police,…
Boko Haram: Army Acquires Bomb Detectors
The Nigeria Army on Tuesday stated that it has acquired modern explosive detectors and other Hi- Tech equipment in an…
Boko Haram Kills 12 Members Of Apostolic Church
Twelve worshippers at the Christ Apostolic Church in Yola, Adamawa State were killed last night when gunmen, suspected to be…
Soyinka, Achebe, Clark: Boko Haram Threatens Nigeria’s Existence
Nigeria’s literary giants and gadflies of half a century, Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate, Chinua Achebe, the renowned author of…
Boko Haram Members In Government, says Jonathan
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan chillingly revealed at a church service organised to mark the Armed Forces on Sunday that…
Boko Haram: Fashola, Religious Leaders Meet
Hundreds of Christian and Muslim leaders have met in Lagos State to strategise on how to stop the incursion of…
Disaster In The Niger Delta
As Nigerians grapple with the problems of Boko Haram, fuel subsidy removal and galloping inflation, another national disaster is happening…
Boko Haram: People Stay at home in Kaduna
By Femi Adi/Kaduna As the three-day ultimatum issued by the dreaded Boko Haram sect for Southerners to leave the north…
Breaking Goodluck’s Gridlock —Kehinde Bamigbetan
It is no longer in doubt that President Jonathan Goodluck has by action and inaction brought Nigeria to an avoidable…
Yorubas Urged to Leave Northern Nigeria
Chairman of Kaduna based Yoruba Development Association, Chief Mukaila Ajibade has asked the Yorubas whether Muslims or Christians to leave…