Tag: Boko Haram
Update: Maiduguri, Monguno under Boko Haram attacks
Nigerian troops are repelling Boko Haram fighters in fierce battles in two towns in Borno state, the capital city of…
Breaking: Boko Haram attacking Maiduguri
Less than 24 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan campaigned in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, the city is reportedly under…
Breaking: Boko Haram frees 192 women
Boko Haram has released nearly 200 hostages, most of them women, who were kidnapped from a village in the northeast…
It is illogical to link Jonathan with Boko Haram – Turaki
Minister for Special Duties, Alhaji Kabiru Turaki, said on Saturday that it was illogical to link the activities of the…
Boko Haram kills village leader, 14 others near Maiduguri
Boko Haram gunmen killed 15 people including a village leader near Maiduguri, the heartland of the Islamist group blamed for…
UN pledges support to Nigeria despite Dasuki saying no need
Dr Mohammed Chambas, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa, has pledged the organisation’s support for…
No need for UN or AU forces against Boko Haram, says Dasuki
Nigeria’s national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki on Friday ruled out the need for a United Nations or African Union-backed force…
African Nations Plan Multi-National Force Against Boko Haram
African nations threatened by Nigeria’s Boko Haram will seek U.N. Security Council authorisation for a multinational force to take on…
Shameful: Cameroon frees German abducted in Nigeria by Boko Haram
Cameroon said Wednesday its forces have freed a German hostage kidnapped six months ago in Nigeria by Boko Haram, as…
Boko Haram leader taunts Itno, Biya, Issouffou in new video
The head of Boko Haram — the enigmatic Abubakar Shekau — has openly taunted the countries being menaced by the…
Cameroon troops, Boko Haram in heavy clashes
Cameroonian troops were caught in “heavy clashes” Tuesday with Boko Haram militants near the border with Nigeria as a security…
Brig-general, 14 colonels, 6 others face court martial in Lagos
Nigeria has ordered a brigadier general and 21 other army officers to face a court martial over alleged sabotage in…
Response to Boko Haram attacks is slow, says Niger Foreign Minister
A regional summit opened in Niger Tuesday aimed at stopping Boko Haram as the Islamist insurgents step up attacks both…
Hundreds flee Borno villages ‘after Boko Haram warning’
Hundreds of people from four villages near the devastated Nigerian town of Baga have been forced to flee after a…
Cameroon frees 24 of the 80 captives of Boko Haram
Cameroon’s army has freed 24 of some 80 hostages kidnapped during a cross-border attack by suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters…
Boko Haram kidnaps 60 in deadly Cameroon attack
*Most of the captives are women, children Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria on Sunday kidnapped at least 60 people in…
I pledge to tackle Boko Haram, corruption, says Buhari
General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), said if elected, his administration would address…
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Jonathan has lost moral right to govern Nigeria: Adamu Ciroma
A former Nigerian minister of finance and agriculture, Alhaji Adamu Ciroma said President Goodluck Jonathan ought to have resigned as…
Chadian troops aiming to recapture Baga
In deploying troops to join the war against Boko Haram militants, Chad’s immediate target is the capturing of Baga, a…
Boko Haram forces of evil, say Chadian demonstrators
Tens of thousands of people rallied in the capital of Chad on Saturday to support the authorities’ decision to send…
Suicide bomber strikes again in Gombe, kills 6
A suicide bomber killed five people and wounded 11 Friday in northeastern Nigeria, an emergency services official told AFP. “It…
Boko Haram bomber abandons bomb-laden vehicle
A suspected bomber on Friday abandoned a bomb-laden pick-up vehicle at a police check point on the Gombe-Biu road. The…
ECOWAS mulls regional force for Boko Haram: Mahama
West African leaders are considering creating a military force to fight Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist militants and will hold a…
Boko Haram committing ‘crime against humanity’ – Hollande
French President Francois Hollande has taken a swipe at Islamist movement Boko Haram, who he said were carrying out “crimes…
What really happened in Baga? Fact checking
By Julian Rademeyer and Eleanor Whitehead Accounts of Boko Haram attacks on the remote northern Nigerian towns of Doro Gowon…
‘Hundreds’ of women, children held after Boko Haram assault
Boko Haram fighters detained hundreds of women and children at a school in the northeast Nigerian town of Baga after…
Condemn use of girls as suicide bombers by Boko Haram – UN
UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, on Thursday, said the world must unite to condemn Boko Haram’s new…
Nigeria will overcome Boko Haram soon, says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has assured that Nigeria will soon overcome the Boko Haram insurgency, going by recent developments. The President…
Boko Haram: Chad to send troops to support Cameroon
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya announced Thursday that neighbouring Chad will send troops to aid his country’s army fight Boko Haram…
Boko Haram terrorism traumatic for all, says Jonathan
*Nigeria’s President visits troops and displaced people from Baga Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan says terrorism as unleashed by Boko haram…