Tag: Boko Haram
Nigerian troops avert plot to bomb Kano, raid Boko Haramcamps
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Security forces in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Wednesday uncovered plots by terrorists to carry out…
May They Not Rest In Peace
By Fémi Táíwò I hope that Adeleke Adeeko won’t mind my citing his recent “Give Them a Dose of Pain!”…
Fake Boko Haram show up for dialogue, says minister
Nigeria’s Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Alhaji Kabiru Turaki, has said that dialogue was going on with key…
Kabiru Sokoto: Judgement Day Fixed
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Trial of suspected mastermind of the 2011 Christmas Day bombing of St. Theresa’s Catholic church in…
Boko Haram kills 5 worshippers, battles Nigeria’s military
Boko Haram militants are not relenting in their attacks of defenseless civilians in Nigeria’s north east region. In their latest…
Boko Haram Kills 70 Teachers, Destroys 50 Schools —Amnesty International
Between January and now, the Boko Haram insurgency has claimed the lives of at least 70 teachers and scores of…
Thousands abandon schools in Boko Haram states, says AI
In its latest report on the insurgency in north east Nigeria, Amnesty International the frequent deadly attacks on schools by…
Nigerian military bombs Boko Haram camp
Nigeria’s military said it has launched air strikes on a Boko Haram camp, killing several Islamists, near a northeastern college…
Students’ Massacre: Our School Not Guarded —Provost
The Provost of Yobe State College of Agriculture where Boko Haram massacred at least 42 students of the college in…
Nigeria At 53
After 53 years of independence, Africa’s most populous country and the second biggest economy has remained a failed state. With…
APC Appeals To Boko Haram To Ceasefire
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on Boko Haram to immediately cease all attacks and embrace dialogue in the…
Atiku: Students massacre casts horrible image on National Day
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described as “senseless and tragic,” the murders of dozens of agriculture students gunned down…
Remembering Kofi Awoonor: Humanity And Against
By Wole Soyinka I am certain there are others who, like me, received invitations to the recent edition of the…
Boko Haram’s Shekau alive, taunts Nigeria’s military
Abubakar Shekau, leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram declared dead by the defunct military task force, is alive. News reports said…
More Soldiers Deployed To Troubled Borno Town
Nigeria’s military sent reinforcements Friday to the remote northeastern town of Benisheik after Boko Haram Islamists stormed the area, burnt…
Oyo state bans Boko Haram-like Islamic sect
The government of the western Nigerian state of Oyo has proscribed the Arsuna Islamic Sect over its alleged involvement in…
Boko Haram kills 159 travellers in two attacks
Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants killed 159 people in two roadside attacks in northeast Nigeria this week, officials said, far more…
‘We are not Boko Haram’, survivors of Abuja killings say
Ayorinde Oluokun/Femi Ipaye There has been a twist in the claims by Nigeria’s intelligence agency, the SSS that its men…
More Soldiers Deployed To Troubled Borno Town
Nigeria’s military sent reinforcements Friday to the remote northeastern town of Benisheik after Boko Haram Islamists stormed the area, burnt…
Boko Haram, SSS battle near Senators’ Quarters in Abuja
Ayo Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria’s Department of State Security Services,(SSS) said it arrested 12 suspected members of the militant sect, Boko Haram,…
Cult Of Jesus And The War In Warri
By Osuolale Alalade It is much simpler to see the advent of the Maitatsine and its contemporaneous expression in Boko…
Boko Haram in gruesome attack kills 87 in Borno
A gruesome attack by Boko Haram insurgents disguised in military uniforms in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno has killed at…
Boko Haram in deadly rampage in Yobe town
Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgents have rampaged through a town in Yobe State, northeastern Nigeria with heavy weapons, setting public buildings…
Vigilance Group Arrest Boko Haram Members
The youth vigilante group in Borno, popularly called ‘Civilian JTF,’ has arrested 19 Boko Haram suspects in five villages in…
Nigerian army denies losing many men to Boko Haram
A Nigerian military strike on a Boko Haram camp in the country’s northeast last week left about 150 militants and…
Curtailing Criminality In Nigeria
By Tayo Demola The rate of crime in Nigeria such as rape, kidnapping, armed robbery and other forms of criminal…
Boko Haram Bombs Police Station: 2 Cops Killed
Gunmen with explosives and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a police station in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing two officers and injuring another…
Two killed after Boko Haram militants bomb police station
Gunmen with explosives and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a police station in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing two officers and injuring another…
10 Killed In Air Strike On Boko Haram Camps
Nigerian troops launched an air strike and later killed 10 suspected members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in a…
Emergency Proclamation: So Far So Good
By Chris Olukolade Boko Haram, a religious sect which had emerged by taking advantage of democracy–the system of government which…