Tag: Boko Haram
Niger Air Force bombs Boko Haram base, arrests 20 militants
Niger’s Air Force has bombed a Boko Haram base in the country’s southeast and arrested more than 20 militants, security…
VIDEO: Boko Haram militants chop off the hands of thieves
[wpvideo CrVu5rii] A new video Boko Haram released by Boko Haram on social media shows some members of the Islamic…
Nigeria issues poster of 100 wanted Boko Haram militants
Nigeria’s army is posting a photographic collage of 100 wanted Boko Haram militants that features the shadowy leader whom they…
Survivors’ Stories: Documenting the human cost of Boko Haram
Ibrahim fled his home in Gwoza, northeast Nigeria, in August last year, when invading Boko Haram fighters took over the…
Eto’o raises funds for Boko Haram victims
Africa’s most decorated footballer Samuel Eto’o has appealed for funding to help people escaping violence in Nigeria and Cameroon and…
Boko Haram has crippled leather business in Borno
Some stakeholders in Borno have said that the Boko Haram insurgency has virtually crippled the hides and skin business in…
Boko Haram: NAF conducts 1448 air sorties in four months
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has between July and October 2015 conducted a total of 1448 air sorties in support…
40 families of deceased officers get N53m from Police
The Nigeria Police on Thursday presented cheques worth N53 million under the Police Life Insurance Scheme to families of 40…
Nigerian troops rescue 338 people held by Boko Haram
Nigerian troops have rescued 338 people, mainly women and children, held by Boko Haram Islamists around the group’s Sambisa forest…
NAF destroys Boko Haram dumps in Sambisa forest
In a renewed drive to further degrade the Boko Haram’s ssets, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha Jets have successfully…
Army establish Task Force Brigade in Borno to fight Boko Haram
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Monday said that the new 29 Task Force Brigade in…
Gov Shettima, Nigerian Army disagree over Boko Haram’s captures of LGAs
Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima, has revealed that Boko Haram militants are occupying two local governments in his state, contrary…
Boko Haram: Buhari sends delegation to Adamawa, Borno
President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a delegation to two states, Adamawa and Borno states to condole with their governments and…
Boko Haram: Lagos urges residents to be vigilant, calm
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has urged citizens in the state to remain calm but very vigilant as the…
Four female suicide bombers die in Maiduguri, 10 injured
AP – A Nigerian official says four women suicide bombers died, killing one other person and wounding 10, when civilian…
Female suicide bomber kills 3 in Maiduguri
A female suicide bomber on Saturday blew herself up in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing three people and…
Cameroon army drives Boko Haram militants into Nigeria
Cameroonian soldiers drove Boko Haram insurgents back across the country’s northern border into Nigeria on Friday, a day after the…
Nigeria not using mercenaries against Boko Haram – DHQ
Nigeria military high command has described insinuation by some section of the media that it has resorted to using mercenaries…
Boko Haram seizes town on Cameroon-Nigeria border
Boko Haram Islamists on Friday seized control of a town in the far north of Cameroon which lies on the…
45 Boko Haram suspects arested in Lagos
Cyriacus Izuekwe Forty-five people suspected to be members of Boko Haram who reportedly planned to bomb Dolphin Estate in Ikoyi,…
NYSC to support 9-year-old pupil on fight against terrorism
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Thursday pledged to support a nine-year-old pupil, Miss Splendour Joe-King, in her fight…
Boko Haram using iPads, laptops, phones for bombs – Arase
AP — Nigeria’s police chief is warning that Boko Haram extremists are building bombs in iPads and cellphones and leaving…
Insurgents kill 8 villagers in Cameroon
At least eight villagers in Cameroon’s far north region were killed and nine injured in a raid on Thursday by…
No hiding place for Boko Haram, cattle rustlers – GOC
Major General Adeniye Oyebade, the General Officer Commanding, 1 Division Nigeria Army, Kaduna, says there is no hiding place for…
Boko Haram: Lagos donates N150m to Adamawa, Borno, Yobe
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday made donation of N50 million each to Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States, worst hit…
US offers Niger surveillance planes as Boko Haram attacks continue
en The United States offered Niger two military surveillance planes Wednesday as attacks by suspected Boko Haram extremists continued in…
20 shot dead by Boko Haram in Borno
AFP – Twenty people were shot dead by suspected Boko Haram gunmen Wednesday on a road outside a village in…
GE donates N220m to UNICEF in support of IDPs in Borno
Leading technology and Infrastructure Company, General Electric (GE) has made a donation of $1m (220 million naira) to UNICEF (United…
I never said rich people are joining Boko Haram – Osinbajo
Vice President of Nigeria, Prof Yemi Osinbajo has stated that he never said rich citizens of the most populous black…
Boko Haram suicide attack kills two Niger soldiers
Two Niger soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a suicide attack by a group of suspected Boko Haram militants in…