Tag: Boko Haram
Nigerian Army kill suicide bomber, Boko Haram fighters
Nigerian Army on Sunday said it has been a fruitful weekend for its troops in the battle against Boko Haram…
Fleeing Boko Haram terrorists bomb themselves
Troops of 81 Battalion and 251 Task Force Battalion of 25 Task Force Brigade who engaged in the hot pursuit…
Cameroon sentences 89 Boko Haram fighters to death
boko Cameroon has sentenced 89 members of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram to death, local media report. They were…
Cameroon soldiers kill 20 Boko Haram fighters in Nigeria
Cameroonian soldiers killed 20 Boko Haram fighters on Wednesday during a raid in northern Nigeria carried out by a multinational…
Maiduguri attack an indication Boko Haram is dying – Buratai
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai, has said Wednesday’s twin attack on a mosque in Maiduguri,…
Troops kill Boko Haram fighters, recover APC
Nigerian troops have recorded more success as it continues to clear out the remnants of Boko Haram camps in reported…
Buhari reacts to Maiduguri blast, says Boko Haram is mindless
President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the suicide attack on a mosque in Maiduguri, stating that, he is heartbroken by…
Troops rescue 3-year old girl from Boko Haram
A three year old girl was rescued from Boko Haram captivity on Friday as Nigerian troops clear remnants of the…
How Dasuki blew N2.2 billion on Boko Haram prayers
Besides the fortune sunk into phoney arms deals, no less than N2.2billion was spent on prayers against Boko Haram, it…
Nigerian troops arrest Boko Haram’s most wanted
Nigerian troops have arrested one of the most wanted Boko Haram terrorists as it continues to wipe out the once-deadly…
18 Boko Haram terrorists killed in failed Pulka attack
The Nigerian Army said that its troops killed 18 Boko Haram insurgents in two separate attacks on military locations in…
Troops wipe out more Boko Haram hideouts
Nigerian troops have continued to record successes against Boko Haram terrorists, wiping them out of their hideouts, killing, arresting the…
GRAPHIC: Troops kill Boko Haram fighters in major clear out
The troops of 231 and 331 Battalion together with some elements of Armed Forces Special Forces of 3 Division, based…
Troops sack Boko Haram fighters in Doksa
The troops of 231 and 331 Battalion together with some elements of Armed Forces Special Forces of 3 Division, based…
Cattle market ‘financing’ Boko Haram shut in Borno
Nigeria’s military has closed one of Africa’s biggest cattle markets, charging sales of stolen animals is helping finance Boko Haram’s…
Boko Haram’s Christian spy arrested – Military
The headquarters of 33 Artillery Brigade, Nigerian Army Bauchi, has arrested four persons suspected to be Boko Haram terrorist spies…
76 hungry Boko Haram militants surrender
Food embargo as a lethal weapon of war, is working in Nigeria’s north east, where hungry militants are fast losing…
Amnesty International And Its Double Mission In Nigeria
By Desita Todorova The authorities in Nigeria are possibly waking up to the reality of the true nature of the…
War on Boko Haram: Army unveils ‘Combat Motorbike Operation’
To meet up with the renewed strategy of clearing the remnants of Boko Haram terrorists, the Nigerian Army on Saturday…
Army opens Borno highways three years after closure
The Nigerian Army announced on Saturday that it had re-opened all major highways linking Maiduguri, Borno, with other parts of…
Buratai hails troops fighting Boko Haram
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has expressed satisfaction with the performance of troops fighting insurgency in the…
US sends ‘special ops’ team to support Nigeria’s Boko Haram fight
The United States has offered to send a special operations mission to Nigeria to help the West African country fight…
Troops kill 92 Boko Haram fighters, free 850 villagers
nigerian Cameroon’s army killed 92 members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram and freed 850 villagers in a joint operation…
Bomb explosion at police station kills 4 in Yola
Reuters: Several explosives seized from Boko Haram militants blew up at a police station in northern Nigeria on Thursday, killing…
98 dismissed soldiers demand reinstatement
Femi Adi/Kaduna Ninety-eight dismissed soldiers stormed the office of the Correspondents Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists, Kaduna on Thursday…
Boko Haram defeated, Chibok girls rescue underway, says Buratai
Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai says military has entered mop up phase in fight against Boko Haram that…
Buratai meets Borno elders, affirms military’s defeat of Boko Haram
Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai says military has entered mop up phase in fight against Boko Haram that…
Troops kill 20 Boko Haram terrorists, capture their gun truck
Nigerian troops in conjunction with Cameroonian troops have killed 20 Boko Haram fighters and have captured a gun truck belonging…
Niger president talks to Al Jazeera on Boko Haram, Democracy
Yesterday, polls closed in Niger, where, in the second election after the 2010 military coup, sitting president, Mahamadou Issoufou is…
UPDATE: Suicide bombers kill 24 in Cameroon
Two suicide bombers posing as food vendors killed at least 24 people and injured 112 others in a market in…