Tag: Boko Haram
How Not To Fight Boko Haram
In the early hours of yesterday, Nigeria was abuzzed with the shocking news that some Boko Haram insurgents numbering about…
It Is Clear That Iyayi Was Murdered
Sylvester Odion Akhaine, senior lecturer, Department of Political Science, Lagos State University and Chairman, Board of Trustees, Centre for Constitutionalism…
Official: 24 Boko Haram militants killed, 2 soldiers wounded
The Nigerian army said 24 Boko Haram militants were killed in the early Monday attack by the group against military…
20 soldiers, 2 copters destroyed in worst Boko Haram strike
Reports filtering out of the beleaguered Nigerian city, Maiduguri, have it that over 20 security operatives may have been killed…
Boko Haram: Ambulances carrying victims at Air Force base
Ambulances were seen at the Air Force base and the adjoining Ngomari neighbourhood carrying victims of the latest Boko Haram…
24 killed by Boko Haram in separate attacks
Suspected Boko Haram militants killed 24 people in two separate attacks in northern Nigeria, eyewitnesses said on Saturday, just as…
Boko Haram: Nigerian Army vows tighter security at Xmas
Military authorities in Nigeria on Saturday pledged to secure communities in the northeastern states, bordering Chad, Niger and Cameroon over…
Nigerian military bombs Boko Haram camps, many killed
Nigeria’s military has launched air strikes on Boko Haram camps in the country’s northeast killing “many” insurgents, a spokesman said…
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…