Hundreds of members of the militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram, who are fleeing military attacks in the border communities of Borno State, are regrouping in the mountainous forests of Adamawa State, a top Defence source told The PUNCH on Monday. The source said that militants, who were dislodged from Sambisa Game Reserve and other camps [...]
Residents on Friday said the special military force deployed to the restive Nigeria northeast states of Yobe and Borno cordoned off border roads linking the two states and Adamawa to prevent the Boko Haram militants from fleeing to other neighboring states. President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday declared state of emergency in three north east states [...]
From AIDOGHIE PAULINUS, Abuja Former governor of Adamawa State, Boni Haruna, has said that the alleged plan to remove from office, the governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai, is wicked, callous and irresponsible. Haruna, who suffered a similar fate in the twilight of his days in office during the power tussle between former President Olusegun [...]
ANGERED by the massacre at the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, National Chairman of the ruling Peoples, Democratic Party, Bamangar Tukur, on Thursday asked the Federal Government to put an immediate stop to indiscriminate killings in the land. Some gunmen on Monday night stormed an off-campus residence of the students and called them out for [...]
GUNMEN midnight Monday stormed an off-campus residence of students of the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, and shot dead 23 students. Also, three other persons, including a retired soldier, a guard and father of a student, lost their lives in the orgy of killing with a total of 25 felled victims. The murdered students were [...]
From DAVID MOLOMO, Adamawa Corpses of 15 persons swept away by flood, which followed heavy rains and unexpected release of water from Lagdo Dam in the Republic of Cameroon have been recovered from River Benue in Adamawa State. Daily Sun gathered that relations of victims recruited divers to help fish out bodies from the river. [...]
By Umar Yusuf Yola— Tension is mounting in Adamawa State as Igbo traders, yesterday, shut shops and other businesses to protest the killings of their kit and kins. The protest over the killing of an unidentified Igbo man almost turned violent as the protesters clashed with security agents. Most of the major streets in Yola, [...]
KANO (AFP) – Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead four traders from the mainly Christian Igbo ethnic group on Monday in the city of Yola, residents said, the latest in a string of such attacks. Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out scores of shootings and bomb attacks in northern, but it was not immediately [...]
From DAVID MOLOMO Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Fleeing from the military heat in Maiduguri, Borno State, Boko Haram may have relocated to neighbouring Mubi in Adamawa State. But soldiers pursued the Islamist sect members to the town on Monday. In an encounter, 11 people were killed. They include seven militants, a police Inspector, a soldier [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Unknown gunmen opened fire at a car dealership in Yola, Adamawa state on Friday afternoon killing the police officer in charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in the state. Eyewitnesses told Saharareporters that the assailants might have trailed the senior police officer to the scene. The officer, Mohammed Ali, was a [...]
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