Tag: fresh attacks
Boko Haram seizes 40 women in fresh raid
Militants of Boko Haram, have abducted 40 women following an attack on the Village of Wagga in Adamawa state, a…
Boko Haram attack soldiers, church
Suspected Boko Haram militants Thursday 5 June in a fresh raid on a town in the restive northeast of Nigeria,…
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…
200 die as Fulani herdsmen storm Kaduna villages
Close to 200 people have been killed in fresh attacks on three villages in Kaduna State by suspected Fulani herdsmen.…
Update: Boko Haram militants attack Maiduguri barracks
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists armed with explosives attacked a residential neighbourhood and a military barracks in Nigeria’s troubled northeastern city…
22 killed in Plateau state
At least 22 people were killed in a raid in Plateau state, in central Nigeria on Thursday, locals said, in…
Boko Haram attack 2 villages, kill 18
Nigeria’s Boko Haram gunmen killed 18 people and burned dozens of houses in attacks on two villages in remote northeastern…
Boko Haram storms Bama Barracks
Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said Boko Haram terrorists’ launched an attack on Bama Barracks, Borno in the early hours of…
24-hour curfew imposed after Boko Haram attacks Maiduguri
Boko Haram militants have staged dare-devil attacks overnight in Maiduguri, the north eastern Nigerian city, prompting military authorities Monday to…
Boko Haram: Nigerian army urged to review telecom ban
Nigeria’s military authorities ban on telephone services in the states where emergency rule is in force has given birth to…
MEND targets mosques, claims attack on Shell
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta,MEND has threatened to launch reprisal attacks against Islamic institutions…
Nigeria: 13 Christians killed in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN has urged the authorities to probe the gruesome killing of 13 factory…
Curfew slammed on Damaturu, Potiskum
Soldiers of the task force in Nigeria’s Yobe state have conducted door-to-door searches in Damaturu, capital of Yobe and Potiskum,…
Boko Haram assassins wipe out family in Kano
Four men suspected to be agents of the Boko Haram sect have shot dead a member of the Nigerian Security…
Boko Haram burns telecom firms masts
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Unidentified men suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic sect on Wednesday attacked masts belonging…
5 Boko Haram suspects killed in attack on troops
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said on Saturday that it killed five suspected terrorists after…
Curfew in troubled Nigerian town, after 2 soldiers killed
Two soldiers have been confirmed killed in a fresh gun attack in Okene, Kogi, by unidentified identified men. Mr Simon…
Reprisal attacks claim more lives in Plateau state
By Femi Adi/Kaduna Reprisals attacks have been reported in the troubled council areas of Plateau State, where a senator and…
More than 23 killed by Nigerian Herdsmen
Herdsmen armed with guns and machetes killed many people in an attack on two Christian villages in central Nigeria’s Plateau…
Armed Nigerian herdsmen attack Village
Suspected Fulani herdsmen have attacked a village, populated by Christians in the central Nigeria’s Plateau State early Saturday, killing yet-to-be…
Damaturu explodes again
Damaturu,capital of Yobe state and the Nigerian city plagued by repeated Boko Haram assaults, bombings and gunfire exploded Friday, to…
Gunmen, Bombers attack Nigeria’s Kano city
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The city of Kano, northwest Nigeria went on fire Tuesday evening as terrorists suspected to be members of…
Boko Haram targets English soccer, kills 2 fans
Gunmen, suspected to be members of the deadly Boko haram sect, shot dead two men near a community centre showing…
Boko Haram strikes again, kills 3
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Gunmen suspected to be mercenaries of Boko Haram, on a motorcycle this evening in Kano, northwest Nigeria attacked…
3 Die In Fresh Terror Attack In Jos
.Police station also attacked in Kano Gunmen shot dead three Christians in Nigeria near the flashpoint city of Jos, hours…
Curfew slammed on Gombe after Boko Haram killings
A 24 hour curfew has been imposed on Nigeria’s Gombe town in the wake of an assault by Boko Haram…
Boko Haram kills 5 in Kano mosque, attacks prison
Suspected Boko Haram militants late Friday shot dead five Muslim worshippers at a mosque in the Nigerian city of Kano,…