Tag: Boko Haram
Nigerian Army: Why We Can’t Fight Boko Haram
The reason terror group Boko Haram has been having a field day across Nigeria is because the country’s military lacks…
Boko Haram should dialogue with FG – Akume
Former Governor of Benue, Senator George Akume, has appealed to the members of the Boko Haram sect to drop their…
Boko Haram kills 173 teachers
The Nigeria Union of Teachers said on Wednesday that 173 teachers have been killed in Borno and Yobe States since…
The President, Boko Haram Phenomenon: A National Disaster For Nigeria
By Lajunwon Lasisi When the Boko Haram lunatics started their macabre dance of death some years ago, we warned President…
Let The Budget Be Signed This Month
By John Tosin Ajiboye On December last year when the 2014 Appropriation bill was sent from Executive to the National…
Jos blasts: PDP postpones Ekiti governorship flag-off
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed, by one week, the presidential flag-off of Ekiti…
Two Boko Haram attacks near Chibok kill 30
Two attacks by Boko Haram gunmen killed 30 people near Chibok, the northeast Nigerian town where the Islamists kidnapped more…
African countries send 5 battalions to fight Boko Haram
Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Cameroon, Niger and Chad will contribute one battalion of troops each to the international force set…
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…