Tag: Boko Haram
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…
US cuts drone hunt for kidnapped Chibok girls
The United States has reduced its surveillance flights in a bid to find more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by…
Jonathan writes Washington Post on Chibok schoolgirls
‘Nothing is more important than bringing home Nigeria’s missing girls’ BY GOODLUCK JONATHAN I have had to remain quiet about…
UK condemns Emab plaza bombing
The British Minister for Africa, Mark Simmonds, on Friday expressed his government’s condemnation of Thursday’s bombing of a shopping mall…
We’ll get over terrorism, says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan visited the site of a deadly bombing in the capital Abuja on Friday after cutting short an…
National Confab Approves State Police
Delegates to the ongoing National Conference on Thursday unanimously approved the establishment of state police, to adequately tackle the current…
Gunmen In Military Uniform Kill Policemen
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Unidenfied gunmen dressed in military uniform have shot and killed two policemen and two civilians at Ikirun-Oke, near…
Boko Haram plans to attack 50 communities
Drama ensued at the ongoing National Conference on Wednesday 25 June when information about plans by Boko Haram to burn…
FG denies abduction of 60 women in Borno
The Federal Government on Wednesday refuted report carried by some media on the abduction of 60 women in Damboa, Borno.…
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In Pictures: Abuja mall bombing
Here are the photographic images of the bomb blast at Emab Plaza, Abuja on 25 June. Photographs taken by Femi…
‘Responsible Leadership Will Eradicate Corruption’
Yisa Jamiu Former Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Ministe Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has declared that no sector in Nigeria is free…
Boko Haram kidnaps 60 women, girls in Borno
Suspected Boko Haram militants have abducted more than 60 women and girls, some as young as three, in the latest…
Cameroon battles Boko Haram in remote border city
Cameroon, stepping up its cooperation with Nigeria against the deadly Islamist campaign by Boko Haram insurgents, is working to rout…
#BringBackOurGirls Rally In Lagos
Simon Ateba A rally to free the Chibok girls from the Boko Haram insurgents will take place in Lagos, western…
Suicide blast kills three in Borno
A suicide bomber on Sunday rammed his car into a military checkpoint in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state near the border…
Nigerian journalists in Boko Haram T-shirt protest
Nigerian journalists covering their country’s World Cup match with Bosnia on Saturday wore t-shirts protesting the Boko Haram Muslim militant…
Boko Haram kills 10 in fresh raid on Borno, says Christian Priest
At least 10 people were killed Saturday in raids by suspected Boko Haram gunmen on two villages near the town…
Kano to secure release of indigenes detained in Abia
The Kano State Government said it had dispatched a delegation to Abia to secure the release of the state indigenes…
Boko Haram kills 10 in raids on five villages
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have killed 10 people in raids on five villages in Nigeria’s northeast Adamawa state, a local…
Crackdown On Nigerian Media Sparks Censorship Row
From nationwide seizures of newspapers to tough new regulations on live political programming, rights groups and journalists say Nigeria’s media…
Fighting Terrorism With Amnesty
By Theophilus Ilevbare Never mind the barefaced denial from Dr. Reuben Abati, Presidential Spokesman that the Commander-In-Chief, President Goodluck Jonathan,…
Boko Haram plans to bomb Abuja with petrol tankers – FG
The Federal Government said on Wednesday that a plot by insurgent group, Boko Haram to bomb Abuja, the Federal Capital…
On The March To Aso Rock In 2015
By Bisi Akande It has been a long journey to come this far on this historic occasion – the first…