Tag: Boko Haram
Biu blast: Borno Govt to pay victims’ medical bills
The Borno Government said it would shoulder the medical bills of all the 20 persons injured in Thursday’s suicide bomb…
21 dead in twin Boko Haram attack near Maiduguri
At least 21 people were killed in two separate Boko Haram attacks on villages near the key city of Maiduguri…
5 dead in Boko Haram first attack in Chad
Nigeria-based Boko Haram Islamists on Friday carried out their first attack inside Chad, killing five people in an early morning…
Boko Haram war is strange to us, says Obanikoro
Former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, on Thursday in Abuja said that the military needed all encouragement…
Boko Haram pursues deadly campaign despite Jonathan’s promises
A suicide attack by a female bomber killed at least seven people at a market in northeast Nigeria on Thursday,…
Niger calls for national protest against Boko Haram
Niger’s ruling coalition on Thursday called for a national day of protest against Boko Haram following repeated attacks from the…
Boko Haram bombs police station, fails suicide bombing attack
Boko Haram insurgents bombed a police station in northeast Nigeria, as the Islamists pressed on with attacks despite a multinational…
Boko Haram: HRW Warns Forces Against Right Abuse
Henry Ojelu Human Rights Watch, HRW has cautioned the African forces responding to the growing threat from Boko Haram with…
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…