Tag: Boko Haram
Nigeria wants UN sanctions on Boko Haram
Nigeria has asked the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Boko Haram, the armed Islamist group that claimed the…
46 Killed in Jos Blasts – Police
Twin car bombings killed 46 people on Tuesday at a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos, as…
Two arrested over Kano suicide car bomb
Two men have been arrested in connection with a suicide car bombing in the northern Nigerian city of Kano that…
Abducted schoolgirls: APC chides Jonathan for snub
The All Progressives Congress issued a statement today on the war against insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast and the rescue efforts…
Anti-Boko Haram Protest In Ekiti
Simon Ateba, Nkrumah Bankong-Obi & Gbenro Adesina/Ado-Ekiti BringBackOurGirls protests spread to Nigeria’s southwestern State of Ekiti on Tuesday with hundreds…
How Boko Haram Abducted Girls
A Ghanaian Islamic spiritualist, Shamuna Ustaz Jibirl, has posted a chilling picture of the over 200 abducted Nigerians girls in…
Chibok Girls: Israel sends anti-terror experts to Nigeria
Israel has sent two anti-terror experts to Nigeria to join the search for hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by extremist Islamist…
Concerted War Against Terrorism
For the first time since the terrorist group Boko Haram held sway in Nigeria and striking in some of the…
Joke Silva, others urge Nigerians to fight against Boko Haram
Popular Nollywood actress, Joke Silva, on Monday called on Nigerians to join in the fight against terrorism in the country.…
Abducted Schoolgirls: British spy plane breaks down
Britain’s Ministry of Defence on Monday said that a spy plane sent to help in the search for the Chibok…
Boko Haram: Northern Governors want surveillance scale up
The Northern States Governors Forum on Monday called on security agencies working to contain the activities of the dreaded Boko…
Insecurity: FIRS shuts three offices
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has shut three of its offices in Adamawa because of insurgency, NAN said. The…
Boko Haram: The Truth Is Bitter
By Raymond Oise-Oghaede There is no gainsaying the fact that many Nigerians and international friends of the country have joined…
News Analysis: End Of Boko Haram Near
The declaration of ‘war’ on Boko Haram extremists by African leaders at a security summit in Paris is a major…
Police Foil Fresh Bombing In Kano
Nigeria police said on Monday that they thwarted a fresh attempt to detonate a car bomb in Kano, a day…
Police: 4 killed in Kano car bomb
Four people were killed, including a young girl, in a suicide car bomb attack in the north Nigerian city of…
Boko Haram: Police tighten security around threatened schools
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar has ordered the strengthening of security in all boarding schools in and around Makurdi,…
France offers China help with Boko Haram hostages
France’s foreign minister offered China his country’s help on Sunday in locating 10 workers feared kidnapped by Boko Haram militants,…
Cameroon says abducted Chinese likely in Nigeria
The 10 Chinese workers abducted by Boko Haram gunmen in Cameroon have most likely been taken back across the border…
How Boko Haram gets financed: Fake Charities, Drug Cartels, Ransom and Extortion
Just over a year ago, armed men on motorcycles entered a national park in Cameroon, near the Nigerian border, and…
Chibok visit: Jonathan does not understand demands of his office – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said President Goodluck Jonathan’s aborted trip to Chibok shows that he does not understand…
Paris Summit: President Jonathan’s full speech
President Jonathan delivers his speech at the Regional Summit on Security in Paris, France on Saturday, 17 May 2014. The…
World powers set to sanction Boko Haram
The global powers led by France have agreed to introduce sanctions against Boko Haram and Ansarul terrorist groups in Nigeria,…
Paris Meeting Takes Far-Reaching Decisions on Boko Haram
Representatives of the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, Presidents of France, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Benin and Niger…
Boko Haram threatens to invade schools, abduct male students
The Principal of Government College, Makurdi, Godfrey Ugudu, on Saturday said the school had received letter from Boko Haram sect…
Nigeria, Cameroon others ‘declare war’ on Boko Haram
Nigeria and its neighbours on Saturday vowed to work together to combat Boko Haram in what Cameroon President Paul Biya…
Jonathan vows to find abducted schoolgirls
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday defended his decision to cancel a visit to the town of Chibok from where more…
Boko Haram kill soldier, 10 Chinese missing in Cameroon
A Cameroonian soldier was killed and 10 Chinese nationals were feared kidnapped after an overnight attack in northern Cameroon believed…
Jonathan cancels visit to Chibok, home of abducted schoolgirls
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has cancelled his first visit to the home town of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by…
Chibok Girls: UN rules out military intervention
A top United Nations envoy has ruled out a military intervention by the UN to rescue no fewer than 200…