Tag: Maiduguri
Soldiers Kill 3 Boko Haram Members Arrest 31
Soldiers of the Joint Military Task Force have killed three Boko Haram Islamists and recovered arms and ammunition in a…
Alleged murderer of General Shuwa killed
Nigeria’s military on Thursday claimed to have killed a Boko Haram commander behind the recent high-profile assassination of a retired…
Boko Haram: ‘We did not kill General Shuwa”
Nigeria’s dreaded insurgency group, Boko Haram, has denied involvement in the killing Major General Muhammed Shuwa, a Nigerian civil war…
Reports: Exodus of men from Maiduguri
Many people, especially men are deserting Nigeria’s troubled city, Maiduguri, after the murder yesterday of a retired senior military officer…
Shuwa, ex-army general assassinated
Less than 24 hours after Nigerian soldiers reportedly massacred about 40 youngsters in Maiduguri, four gunmen have struck in the…
Boko Haram wants peace talks in Saudi Arabia
The Associated Press has reported a telephone conversation with a Boko Haram member in Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria’s Borno State,…
Bomb Scare On Arik Flight
There has been a bomb scare on an Arik Air flight from Maiduguri to Abuja but the Ministry of Aviation…
China protests killing of national in Nigeria
China said Monday it had lodged a diplomatic protest over the fatal shooting of a Chinese worker in Nigeria and…
Top Boko Haram member arrested in Senator’s house
A high-profile member of the Boko Haram sect has been arrested in the home of a senator in Maiduguri, Borno…
Another Chinese killed in Maiduguri
Gunmen shot dead a Chinese construction worker in Maiduguri on Friday, an official said, the second killing of a Chinese…
24 Boko Haram militants shot dead in Maiduguri
Despite using grenades, rocket propellers and improvised bombs to battle Nigerian soldiers in multiple attacks in Maiduguri, 24 Boko haram…
Fresh blasts, gunfire rock Maiduguri
Maiduguri, the embattled Nigerian city was in lockdown on Tuesday following a spate of blasts and persistent gunfire in a…
Fresh Blasts, Gunfire In Maiduguri
An embattled Nigerian city was in lockdown on Tuesday following a spate of blasts and persistent gunfire in a neighbourhood…
Maiduguri: another day of violence, another 4 dead
Nigeria’s city of Maiduguri was on Sunday rocked by a roadside blast and two separate gun attacks that killed at…
Boko Haram begged to embrace dialogue now
The leading traditional leader in the Boko Haram beleaguered Borno state in Northern Nigeria, Abubakar Ibn Garbai, the Shehu of…