Tag: Boko Haram
If We Don’t Kill Corruption, It Will Kill Us —Buhari
Eromosele Ebhomele Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday night noted that the high rate of…
No To UN Peacekeeping In Nigeria
Reports of the visit of the Special Representative of the Secretary General to West Africa to Abuja indicate that the…
Boko Haram attack Chadian troops in Gamboru
Militants from the Boko Haram Islamist movement attacked Chadian troops stationed at a Nigerian border town before being repulsed Wednesday,…
Niger declares state of emergency in region attacked by Boko Haram
Niger’s government on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in the Diffa region along the border with Nigeria, which has…
I never said Jonathan is sponsoring Boko Haram, says Labaran Maku
The governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) Labaran Maku has denied ever accusing President Goodluck Jonathan of…
We’ll Defeat Boko Haram In 6 Weeks —Dasuki
National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Sambo Dasuki, has boasted that all the camps of Boko Haram insurgents within the country would…
Boko Haram will be ‘thing of the past’, Jonathan promises
President Goodluck Jonathan has called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) not to politicise the issue of security, saying government…
Boko Haram will be dismantled in six weeks, says Dasuki
Nigeria on Monday vowed to crush Boko Haram within six weeks as its leader warned a new regional fighting force…
Boko Haram leader in new video talks tough
*The most wanted Nigerian terrorist vows to defeat regional force Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau vowed in a new video…
Boko Haram opens new front in Niger with twin attack
Boko Haram fighters waged twin attacks Sunday in Niger, their latest front in an expanding regional insurgency, claiming at least…
Boko Haram kills one, injures 10 in fresh Niger attack
Boko Haram fighters waged a new attack on Sunday in a southeastern border town in Niger, where a blast killed…
300th day: Malala calls for global action to free Chibok schoolgirls
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Sunday called for global support to help release more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped…
8,700-strong African deployment to fight Boko Haram
Five African nations on Saturday pledged to deploy 8,700 troops, police and civilians as part of a regional effort to…
Boko Haram planned to attack the whole of Nigeria – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said various attacks by Boko Haram in Abuja were planned to extend to parts of…
Cameroon, Chad, Niger real test for Boko Haram, says US
Boko Haram is flush with cash and weapons after a string of battlefield advances, but the militants could face a…
109 Boko Haram fighters killed in Niger attack
*United States intelligence estimates Boko Haram fighters to between 4000 and 6,000 An army general in Niger was among the…
First Boko Haram attack in Niger beaten back by troops
Islamist group Boko Haram for the first time launched an attack in Niger on Friday, striking at the town of…
Reasons Polls May Go Violent
Nigerian elections are just ten days away, and things are getting tense, reports Reuters. The country has a couple of…
Reflections On February 2015 Elections
By Ayo Fasanmi As February 2015 elections draw near, global focus is on Nigeria. There are several reasons for this…
70 civilians, six troops ‘killed in Boko Haram rampage in Cameroon’
Boko Haram fighters killed nearly 70 civilians and six soldiers in an onslaught on the Cameroonian border town of Fotokol…
Boko Haram slits civilians’ throats in fresh attack
Boko Haram fighters slit civilians’ throats and torched the main mosque in the Cameroon border town of Fotokol during an…
200 Boko Haram fighters, 9 Chadian soldiers killed in clashes
Clashes between Chadian troops and Boko Haram fighters during a raid in neighbouring Nigeria have killed 200 Islamists and nine…
Cameroon troops clash with fleeing Boko Haram fighters
Cameroon soldiers clashed with Boko Haram fighters in the border town of Fotokol on Wednesday as the Islamists fled an…
Chadian troops take control of Nigerian border town
Chadian forces scored a key victory over Nigeria’s Boko Haram on Tuesday, wresting control of the border town of Gamboru…
Jonathan, Buhari To Face ICC Trial Over Polls Violence
The two leading presidential candidates of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, President Goodluck Jonathan, and Muhammadu Buhari of the…
Baga And Paris: A Tale Of Two Terror Attacks
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Without a doubt, terrorism has become a major global concern. There is hardly any part of the…
Chadian troops enter Nigeria to battle Boko Haram
Chad sent ground troops into Nigeria for the first time on Tuesday to fight Boko Haram as the Islamist militants…
Military recaptures 10 towns from Boko Haram
The National Information Centre said on Monday that the ongoing war against insurgency in the North East was yielding desired…
Boko Haram to be engaged on all fronts, including safe havens – DHQ
The military on Sunday said that it will engage Islamist sect, Boko Haram on all fronts including its safe have…
Breaking: 2 bomb blasts rock Gombe, 5 die
Two bomb blasts have rocked Nigeria’s Gombe city, part of the Boko Haram besieged north east Nigeria. Five persons have…