Tag: Borno State
Now is the time to rescue our daughters – Kwankwaso
Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, northwest Nigeria has called on politicians and opinion leaders to come together…
Abducted school girls sold for $12 each to Boko Haram fighters
Nigerian parents lashed out on Tuesday at the government’s failure to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped two weeks ago by…
200 Abducted Schoolgirls Sighted
There are reports that 200 of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents have been sighted in southern Borno in…
Bi-Partisan Meeting On Security, Good Step But…
For about the first time, President Goodluck Jonathan, governors of the 36 states of the federation and all members of…
Over 40 insurgents killed in clashes between military and Islamists
More than 40 insurgents and four soldiers died in clashes between Nigerian troops and Islamists near the scene where scores…
Terrorists Want To Paralyse Government
Labaran Maku, the Minister of Information, fielded questions from journalists after a meeting of Federal Executive Council devoted to discussing…
The Boko Haram Beasts
The bomb blasts in Nyanya, on the outskirts of Abuja, that killed more than 75 people on 14 April, and…
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…
Boko Haram will not defeat us – Gov. Shettima
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state said on Tuesday 22 April that the Boko Haram insurgents would not emerge victorious…
Borno residents witness first rain in 2014
Residents of Maiduguri, Borno state capital, have witnessed their first rain in 2014, recording light showers lasting about 45 minutes.…
115 schoolgirls still missing after kidnap – principal
Asabe Kwambura, principal of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State has denied reports from the military that most of…
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…
Many Kidnapped Borno School Girls Freed, says Nigeria’s military
Nigeria military forces said on Wednesday that most of the girls abducted by people suspected to be members of Boko…
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…
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…
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…
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…
North East Governors Appeal To INEC On 2015 Poll
Governors of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states facing the challenges of Boko Haram insurgency on Wednesday urged the Independent National…
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…
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…
5 cops, 3 civilians killed in troubled Maiduguri
Suspected Boko Haram militants on Tuesday hurled explosives in Nigeria’s troubled northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing five police officers, while…
Borno schools shut because of Boko Haram
Nigeria’s Borno state has ordered all its schools shut to protect children after Boko Haram terrorists killed dozens of pupils…
Nigeria French Neighbours Are Giving Cover To Boko Haram
Senator Zanna Ahmed Khalifa, represent Borno Central in the National Assembly. In this interview with SOLA ADEOLA, he speaks about…
Boko Haram terrorists kill 2 villagers, burn churches
Suspected terrorists from Boko Haram have struck at Pela Birni village of Hawul Local Government Area of Borno state, killing…
Army slams telephone blackout on Borno state again
Nigeria’s military authorities on Wednesday re-imposed a telephone blackout on many parts of Nigeria’s northeast Borno state, the base of…
Recall Youth Corps Members Posted To War-Torn States
Days ago, the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, shocked Nigerians by posting of 820 graduates to war-torn Borno State to…
Healthcare services collapse in northern Borno state
Healthcare services have collapsed in the northern part of Nigeria’s Borno state as doctors, nurses and pharmacists flee for their…