Tag: Boko Haram
Funding constrains MNJTF in fight against Boko Haram
Funding for a multinational force to combat Boko Haram’s deadly Islamist insurgency in West and Central Africa remains well short…
Boko Haram looking for cheap media attention – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari insisted Sunday night that Boko Haram has been pulverised, rendered homeless and confused and that recent bombings…
50 people killed in Dalori attack
At least 50 people are reported to have been killed in north-eastern Nigeria in a gun and bomb attack by…
Scores dead in Boko Haram attack on Dalori, Borno
The Nigerian Army on Sunday confirmed the killing of scores of people after suspected Boko Haram terrorists launched a night…
10 killed by suicide attack in Adamawa
A child suicide bomber blew himself up in a market in northeast Nigeria Friday, killing at least 10 people, witnesses…
Army task soldiers on professionalism in Boko Haram war
The Nigerian Army on Friday advised soldiers involved in the ongoing counter insurgency operation in Borno to adhere strictly to…
Army arrests Boko Haram member in Sapele
A middle-aged man suspected to be a member of the Boko Haram sect has been apprehended in Sapele , Delta,…
Cameroon troops kill 40 in pursuit of Boko Haram – Villagers
Nigerian villagers claimed Tuesday that Cameroonian troops in cross-border pursuit of Boko Haram Islamic extremists shot and killed at least…
Army to establish identity of suspected Boko Haram leader
The Nigerian Army said on Saturday that it had put in place machinery to establish the true identity of a…
Army to establish true identity of captured Boko Haram leader
The Nigerian Army said on Saturday that it had put in place machinery to establish the true identity of a…
Thousands return to Nigeria after Boko Haram sacking
Thousands of Nigerian refugees, who fled to neighbouring Cameroon in 2014 to escape Boko Harm militants, have returned to the…
Olisah Metuh’s handcuffs in order —Oshiomhole
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said there is nothing wrong handcuffing Mr. Olisah Metuh, the Publicity Secretary of the…
Lagos-bound Boko Haram kingpin arrested
A Boko Haram kingpin operating in Damboa, Chibok and Askira axis of Borno State, has been arrested. Jarasu Shira was…
FG welcomes envoys’ support for Northeast rehabilitation
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has welcomed the offer of support from Ambassadors from several nations who are based in…
Buhari tells Ban ki-Moon ‘We’ve driven Boko Haram into fall back positions’
President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday in Abu Dhabi that Nigeria has made very significant progress towards ending the Boko Haram…
Four dead in suicide attack on Cameroon mosque
Four worshippers were killed in a suicide bombing at a mosque in northern Cameroon on Monday, a security source said,…
Open Letter To President Buhari
Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, President & Commander-in-chief, of the Armed Forces, Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, Abuja. Request for presidential pardon for…
Boko Haram has killed nearly 1,200 people since 2013 – Cameroon
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists have killed nearly 1,200 people in neighbouring Cameroon’s far north since 2013, the communications minister in…
Police, paramilitary to be deployed to towns liberated from Boko Haram
Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahaman Dambazau (rtd) has confirmed the planned redeployment of police and paramilitary personnel to…
Boko Haram: UN allocates $31m to Nigeria, others for humanitarian work
The UN Officer for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Mr Stephen O’Brien, has allocated 31 million dollars from the…
Minister tasks police to protect vulnerable places from terror attacks
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has appealed to the police to provide more security for vulnerable…
Buhari urges unity among Nigerians, hails armed forces
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday called on Nigerians to build on things that unite rather than divide the country in…
Pray for troops in battlefield, Officer urges Nigerians
The Nigerian Army on Friday advised Nigerians to always keep members of the Armed Forces combating the Boko-Haram insurgency in…
Allow Borno hunters assist you against Boko Haram, Yoruba group tells DHQ
Eromosele Ebhomele The Egbe Omo Oduduwa, a pan-Yoruba group, said Thursday it has endorsed the recent call by hunters in…
US donates sophisticated vehicles to Nigerian army after Boko Haram strikes
The United States on Thursday donated 24 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles to Nigeria’s military, to enable the country’s soldiers to combat…
Army kills 101, arrests 21 Boko Haram members
Femi Adi/Kaduna The General Officer Commanding I Mechanised Division, Army Headquarters, Kaduna, Major General Adeniyi Oyebade on Wednesday confirmed that…
Niger ‘winning war’ against Boko Haram: Army chief
Niger is “in the process of winning the war” against Boko Haram jihadists who have staged attacks from neighbouring Nigeria…
How Obafemi Awolowo predicted Jonathan’s presidency, Boko Haram
It is safe to say Chief Obafemi Awolowo, a Nigerian nationalist and statesman who played a key role in Nigeria’s…
You must find Chibok girls, Bakare tells Buhari
The Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare has told President Muhammadu Buhari to order security agencies…
We want to fight Boko Haram in Sambisa – Borno Hunters
Hunters in Borno on Sunday called on the military to allow them to join in the war against insurgents in…