Tag: Boko Haram
Boko Haram militants sack village, kill 12
Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed 12 people in Nigeria’s restive northeast, burning homes and stealing cars in an area…
UK court fails to pity Nigerian asylum seeker on hunger strike
A Nigerian asylum seeker said to be near death from a hunger strike failed in his bid on Thursday to…
Jitters in the Nigerian city of hostage drama
ZARIA(AFP) – Zaria, in northern Nigeria, has not been known as an Islamist stronghold but revelations that a French engineer…
Counter terrorism: Nigerian forces abort plot, kill 2 suspects
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigerian forces in Kano, northwest Nigeria, Tuesday evening confirmed the death of two terrorists and the arrest of…
Living In The Shadow Of Terror
Security measures adopted in the wake of Boko Haram attacks have substantially altered living and driving in Abuja In the…
‘My Story’: By a forced bride of Boko Haram terrorists
(Reuters) – In the gloom of a hilltop cave in Nigeria where she was held captive, Hajja had a knife…
Boko Haram: Nigerian army raid frees abducted French engineer
French hostage Francis Collomp has been freed almost a year after being kidnapped, according to a statement from the French…
Reports: Boko Haram Holding Kidnapped French Priest
Boko Haram is holding a French priest who was kidnapped in northern Cameroon, a source within the banned Nigerian Islamist…
ThisDay Bomber Jailed For Life
Mustapha Umar, a self confessed Boko Haram member arrested and tried before a Federal High Court siting in Abuja in…
Kidnappers of French priest leave Paris with puzzles
Who did it? The French Foreign Ministry has been trying to decode the identity of the kidnappers of a French…
Boko Haram: The Road to US Blacklist
The United States on Wednesday designated Nigeria’s radical Islamist Boko Haram network and an offshoot known as Ansaru as terror…
Boko Haram, Nigeria’s terror group to get US upgrade
(Reuters) – The US State Department will formally designate the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram as a “foreign terrorist organization”…
Thank You, Golden Eaglets!
By Ayo Oyoze Baje “We seem in this country to underrate the youth. The vigour of the youth is wasted in…
Gaidam suggests Marshall Security plan for Nigeria’s north east
Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe state has suggested what he called `marshal security plan’ to Nigeria’s Federal Government to tackle…
Jonathan seeks extension of emergency rule in 3 states
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday asked the National Assembly to approve the extension by six months of emergency rule…
In picture: Boko Haram report ready
PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN (L) RECEIVING REPORT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE ON DIALOGUE AND PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF SECURITY CHALLENGES IN THE…
Boko Haram gunmen kill 40 in fresh attacks, torch 300 homes
The efficacy of the five month old state of emergency in Nigeria’s north eastern states has come again under scrutiny…
Gunmen kill over 30 in attack on wedding convoy
Survivors and witnesses of an attack on a wedding convoy in Borno state, northern Nigeria have confirmed that gunmen killed…
Army Destroys Boko Haram Operational Vehicles
The Nigerian Army on Thursday said it had destroyed two suspected operational vehicles of the Boko Haram sect in the…
Soyinka: Justice Is Never ‘Siddon Look’!
By Wole Soyinka Let me be candid. It was with mixed feelings that I accepted to deliver this lecture. On…
UNHCR urges Cameroon not to expel Nigerian refugees
The UN’s refugee agency on Tuesday urged Cameroon and other nations not to expel Nigerians who have fled their homes…
Civilian JTF Warned Against Abuse Of Power
The Deputy Governor of Borno, Alhaji Zannah Mustapha, on Monday warns members of the local vigilante group popularly called ‘Civilian…
Reports: Boko Haram may have killed 35 Nigerian soldiers
Thirty-five bodies in military uniform have been brought to a morgue in Damaturu, Yobe state, in Nigeria’s restive northeast after…
Nigerian troops kill scores of Boko Haram fighters
Nigeria’s army said Friday it had killed 74 suspected Boko Haram fighters in a raid in northeastern Borno state, as…
Remember Families Of Fallen Soldiers
The Nigerian Army got some respite after it recently killed 37 suspected Boko Haram fighters in a ground and air…
SSS Prevents Press Coverage Of Boko Haram Suspect
There was pandemonium at the Federal High Court, Lagos, western Nigeria, Thursday morning when armed operatives of the State Security…
Boko Haram kills 29 in one day
Boko Haram gunmen have stormed two villages in Borno state, northeast Nigeria, killing 10 people, after a botched attempt by…
19 killed in unrelenting Boko Haram attacks
There seems to be no end in sight in the bloodletting by Boko Haram gunmen in the Nigerian north eastern…
Nigerian troops foil Boko Haram multi-front attacks, kill 40
Amidst report of extra-judicial killings of Boko Haram suspects by Nigeria’s military, while suspects were under their custody, Nigeria’s military…
CAN Decries State Of The Nation
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, (Northern Zone) has decried the prevailing situation in the country especially as it pertains…