Yusifiyya Movement, also known as Boko Haram, yesterday, said it attacked the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja because United States (US) and the UN are supporting the Federal Government to persecute Muslims in Nigeria. One Abu Kakah, who claimed to be speaking on behalf of the group, made the statement. He spoke to journalists […]
SPURRED by Friday’s bombing of the United Nations House in Abuja, the fight against the extremist agenda of the Boko Haram has now taken an international dimension, as top officials of the United Nations and the US government are ready to square up with the activities of the group. Authoritative sources disclosed that while the United Nations […]
No fewer than 18 people were feared dead and 48 injured when a suicide bomber attacked the United Nations office in Abuja on Friday. The attacker, reportedly drove through the exit and pulled down the first and second gates and entered the compound. According to a source, the attacker immediately alighted from a Honda Accord […]
MEMBERS of the Boko Haram Islamic sect yesterday claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at the United Nations (UN) office in Abuja. In an interview, a spokesperson sect, Sheik Azzawahiri on Hamada Radio International monitored in Kaduna, said that, “the bomb blast that involved more than 20 people was certainly our work.” “We take full […]
BARELY two months after suspected members of Boko Haram sect threatened to attack Adamawa State, the group yesterday carried out the threat as its members attacked Gombi Local Council headquarters, allegedly killing 32 people, including a bank manager and several police officers. The incident occurred as more than15 suspected armed robbers allegedly swooped on two […]
(CNN) — At least seven people have been killed and many more injured in a bombing Friday at the U.N. building in the center of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, witnesses say. Journalist Alkasim Abdulkadir, in Abuja, told CNN he had seen seven bodies brought into the National Hospital by Red Cross officials. He had also […]
Some Nigerians performing this year’s Lesser Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia said they offered special prayers to God for an end to Boko Haram insurgency and other vices in Nigeria. They said they did not only pray for themselves, their immediate families and friends while performing the Lesser Hajj but asked God to restore peace, […]
The Federal Government has granted the Presidential Committee on Security Challenges in the North-east extra two weeks to tidy up its work, adding that it was important that lives and property were secured. The extension was at the request of the committee, which submitted its interim report yesterday to the Secretary to the Government of […]
THE fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, whose continued violence has defied the nation’s security apparatus, may be operating with the support of al-Qaeda’s African branch and the al-Shabab terror group of Somalia. The top United States (U.S.) Military Commander for Africa, Gen. Carter Ham, told the Associated Press (AP) yesterday after a visit to Nigeria […]
Brig. General Muraina Raji, former Commander, 33 Artillery Brigade, Bauchi, was on Tuesday arraigned before a Special Court Martial over the escape of two detainees from the Brigade’s detention facilities. According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report, the detainees were suspected to be members of the Boko Haram who were arrested over an onslaught […]
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