Tag: Boko Haram
Boko Haram Threatens To Kill Abducted Schoolgirls
The fate of over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from their hostels at Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok,…
Aregbesola Calls For Mass Protest Over Missing Schoolgirls
Kazeem Ugbodaga Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has called for nationwide mass protest against Islamic terrorists, Boko Haram over the…
Yoruba’ll defend themselves if attacked—Afenifere
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has said the Yoruba people in southwest Nigeria will defend themselves by any…
Boko Haram: Abducted school girls jump to 234
The number of secondary school girls still under Boko Haram captivity is more than the figure widely circulated. There are…
Jonathan: Nigeria will survive despite Boko Haram
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday vowed to keep Nigeria a united country despite the attempts by Boko Haram militants to…
Borno Christians begin fasting for abducted school girls
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Borno state has declared fasting from Monday to Wednesday to seek divine intervention for…
85 school girls still missing, 24 escape
Eighty-five of the abducted 129 school girls in Chibok, Borno State are still missing, an education official said, on the…
News Analysis: Big blow on Nigeria’s military
By Bayo Onanuga Skeptics of Nigeria’s military campaign against the murderous Boko Haram gunmen in Nigeria’s northeast now have a…
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…