Tag: Boko Haram
Buhari To Sue PDP Over Boko Haram
Eromosele Ebhomele Unable to bear the continuous wild accusation linking him with the Boko Haram terrorists by the Peoples Democratic…
There’ll Be More Bomb Blasts
Founder, Inri Evangelical Spiritual Church, Oke Afa, Isolo, Lagos, Primate Ayodele speaks with Oluwole Adeboye, on the state of the…
Genuine Consultations Will End Boko Haram Attacks
Adesola Samuel Adedayo, Chairman, Apapa/Iganmu Local Council Development Area, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, in a chat with P.M.NEWS bares his mind…
Boko Haram kills 20, fourth attack in three days
Suspected Boko Haram militants have struck for a fourth time in three days in Nigeria, killing 20 people including a…
Shettima offers N50m reward to save kidnapped school girls
Governor Kashim Shettima of the beleaguered Borno state, in northeast Nigeria has offered 50 million naira ($300,000, 215,000 euros) reward…
Troops pursue Boko Haram kidnappers of school girls
Nigerian soldiers are on the trail of Boko Haram gunmen who kidnapped about 100 girls from a secondary school in…
Patience Jonathan wants Borno abducted girls released
Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of Nigeria’s president has called for the release of the 100 school girls abducted by insurgents…
6,000 Soldiers, Cops To Guard World Economic Forum Delegates
The World Economic Forum on Tuesday said its Africa summit will be held in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, next month despite…
15 Out Of 100 Kidnapped Girls Escape
Reports say 15 out the 100 schoolgirls kidnapped Monday evening by heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists from a school in…
Nyanya: We Better Wake Up Or Die Where We Lie
By Henry C. Onyema I do not know what to say or write here that will make sense. In other…
Confab delegates condemn kidnap of 100 school girls
Delegates at the National Conference have condemned the kidnap of over 100 secondary school girls in Chibok, Borno state. The…
Boko Haram Abducts School Girls In Borno
Heavily armed Islamist gunmen kidnapped a group of girls from a secondary school in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state and torched…
US denounces ‘senseless’ Nigeria bombing
The United States on Monday condemned a bomb attack on a packed bus station in Nigeria which killed 71 people,…
Abuja Bus station blasts came from 2 bombs, 71 killed
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja with agency reports The confirmed toll from the twin bombing of a bus station near the capital Abuja…
Boko Haram massacre 60 people near Cameroon border
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on Sunday killed at least 60 people in Nigeria’s troubled Borno state close to the border…
Nigeria’s military recovers weapons, animals in battles against militias
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria’s military authorities said on Sunday that their assaults on camps of armed militia men in Kaduna and…
No JAMB candidate killed by Boko Haram, says police chief
The Commissioner of Police in Borno State, Alhaji Lawal Tanko, said no candidate for JAMB examination on Saturday was killed…
135 die in Boko Haram latest attacks
Senator Ahmed Zannah from Borno state has disputed the official death toll in the latest attacks by militiamen of the…
Boko Haram gunmen kill 6 teachers, 13 others
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have killed 19 people, including six college teachers, in three separate attacks in Nigeria’s troubled northeastern…
NHRC’s Verdict On Extra-Judicial Killing
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, hit the bull’s eye when it declared Monday that eight squatters killed in Abuja…
Is BOKO Truly HARAM?
By Raymond Oise-Oghaede The existence of militant groups in the country is real and worrisome but more worrisome is that…
Nigerian military commanders linked With Boko Haram
A Nigerian soldier says he has witnessed incidents that suggest some Nigerian military commanders are working with Boko Haram, an…
Boko Haram attack kills 17 in Yobe
Boko Haram militants have attacked a village in Yobe state, killing 17 people and setting houses and cars ablaze, the…
80 year-old nun, Italian priests abducted by terrorists in Cameroon
Who were the gunmen that kidnapped Italian priests, Giampaolo Marta and Gianantonio Allegri and this 80 year-old Canadian nun in…
Two Italian priests kidnapped in Cameroun
Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun have been kidnapped by gunmen in northern Cameroun, Italy’s foreign ministry said. The…
3 Boko Haram suspects for secret trial
A Nigerian Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday granted an application brought by the Federal Government seeking to conduct…
Suicide attack kills 15 civilians in Maiduguri
Fifteen civilians have been killed and 17 others injured after a suicide attack in Maiduguri, Borno state by suspected Boko…
4 Boko Haram suicide bombers killed in failed attack
Four would-be suicide bombers planning to blow up a petrol station in Maiduguri, Borno state have been killed by soldiers…
Rape Is Major Crime In Kano
Alhaji Adenrele Tasheed Shinaba, Commissioner of Police, Kano State Command, has had varied experience as Commissioner of Police in charge…
Boko Haram: Nigeria’s army denies Amnesty abuse claims
Nigeria’s military on Monday denied claims from Amnesty International that its troops may have committed war crimes and crimes against…