Tag: Boko Haram
Balmo Forest raid: FG Investigating politicians sponsoring Boko Haram
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Federal Government said on Wednesday that it is investigating some unnamed politicians with alleged links to the…
S.Africa intel reveals ‘abuses’ in battle against Boko Haram
Nigeria faces a prolonged battle to quash the bloody Boko Haram insurgency despite a “hardline” campaign that has witnessed rights…
Police Bust Plan To Bomb High School
The police have uncovered a plot to bomb a secondary school in the restive northeastern city of Gombe by defusing…
Nigeria closer to rescuing Chibok schoolgirls – FG
The Federal Government said on Monday that it had identified a number of leads that would help in rescuing the…
Boko Haram Islamists kill 7
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists disguised in army uniforms killed seven people in an attack near the northeastern border with Cameroon,…
Biafra, June 12, Boko Haram And The Future Of Nigeria (2)
By Chido Onumah For a people in search of a meaningful national identity, I worry when we miss any opportunity…
Over 60 women, girls escape from Boko Haram
Over 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors,…
Nigerian military acquires equipment to defeat Boko Haram
The Nigerian military is acquiring new equipment and undergoing more training to battle Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in…
Suspected Boko Haram leader killed in gun battle
A suspected Boko Haram leader was killed on Sunday 6 July by security operatives following a raid on a hideout…
Nigerian soldiers halt Boko Haram attack, kills 53
Clashes between Nigerian armed forces and Islamists after a daring attack on the military in the country’s restive northeast left…
Nigerian troops arrest three female Boko Haram members
Nigeria Defence headquarters said on Friday 4 July that in the aftermath of the failed suicide bombing attempt on a…
Chibok pleads for UN protection from Boko Haram
Villagers from Chibok town where Boko Haram Islamists abducted more than 200 schoolgirls on Friday appealed to the United Nations…
Gowon, Oritsejafor urge Muslim leaders to end Boko Haram terror
Kazeem Ugbodaga Former Nigerian Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) and the National President, Christian Association of Nigeria,…
Boko Haram: Britain Must Give More Help To Nigeria
By Gordon Brown It’s not only the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls that need our help, but every girl that the terrorists…
Boko Haram Beats US Efforts To Choke Its Finances
When Washington imposed sanctions in June 2012 on Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, he dismissed it as an empty gesture.…
‘Boko Haram Can Only Be Defeated If Corruption Ends’
An Italian nun who has been living in Southern Nigeria for the past 18 years has declared that Boko Haram…
Sect Can’t Break Nigeria —Soyinka
Nigeria is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group Boko Haram than it did during a secessionist civil…
Boko Haram Attacks: Security Beefed Up In Abuja
Sola Adeola/Abuja Security surveillance over the nation’s capital, Abuja, has increased following recent bomb attacks in the city. Soldiers this…
Boko Haram: Beyond Recruiting Soldiers
Days after the last media chat in which President Goodluck Jonathan told Nigerians that he had ordered a massive recruitment…
Blast rips through Osun, Kaduna, Borno killing scores
A bomb blast rocked Ile-Ife, Osun State, early Wednesday morning. The low small bomb went off in the Onipetu area…
No true Muslim will kill innocent people – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday said Boko Haram’s attacks on churches in villages near Chibok, Borno, on Sunday were attempts…
Oyedepo, Bakare Curse Boko Haram
Eromosele Ebhomele Bishop David Oyedepo and Pastor Tunde Bakare, two of Nigeria’s very popular Christian leaders, have invoked the wrath…
Over 50 die in Boko Haram attack on churches
An attack on churches in northeast Nigeria blamed on Boko Haram killed more than 50 people, an official said on…
CHIBOK KILLINGS: Police Aware Of Attacks On Christians
Two weeks before Boko Haram Islamists attacked a series of churches on Sunday near Chibok, the northeast Nigeria town where…
Biafra, June 12, Boko Haram And The Future Of Nigeria (1)
By Chido Onumah Nigeria’s celebrated novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is an interviewer’s delight, whether she is talking about Nigeria, novels,…
Forgotten Chibok Girls
Seventy-seven days after close to 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped in Chibok by Boko Haram, and many weeks after the Nigerian…
Attacks linked to Boko Haram in 2014
A number of churches in northeast Nigeria were attacked by suspected Boko Haram Islamists on Sunday, near the town of…
Boko Haram lock up church, spray worshippers with bullets
Chilling details of how Boko Haram gunmen attacked three villages Sunday in Nigeria’s Borno State are emerging. In Kautikiri village,…
Nigerian soldiers hide as Boko Haram attack churches
Nigerian soldiers reportedly went to hide in the bush as Boko Haram gunmen unleashed fresh attacks on churches in the…
Boko Haram attack churches near Chibok
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists armed with explosives attacked a series of churches on Sunday near Chibok, the northeastern town where…