A deadly explosion was yesterday averted by the police in Borno when a 25-year-old suicide bomber with heavily wired Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) was gunned down by policemen at the entrance of the state headquarters of the police in Maiduguri. The bomber had defiled attempts to check his Honda Accord car at the command’s gate […]
South West Regional Editor with agency reports LAGOS — The fear of attacks by Islamic militants in Nigeria is spreading South to the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos, where city buses are being checked for bombs. This followed a text message purportedly sent by the group warning people not to take government buses because they are […]
Some operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) were said to have swooped on key chieftains of the dreaded Boko Haram sect in Minna, Niger State at the weekend where they effected the arrest of seven chieftains. It was gathered that the lead suspect is a Lagos-based businessman, whose name was given as Yusuff. He […]
LAGOS — The Federal Government is to classify its national assets for effective security coverage in the face of crippling intra-agency bickering and lapses that militate against national security. This classification will entail defining what constitutes national assets and national soft and hard security items. The hard security items will include infrastructure and institutions like […]
The Jama’atu Ahlisunnah Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad Islamic sect (commonly known as Boko Haram) has fired a warning that it would attack Kano State if the security agencies continue to hunt its members in the state. The militant group said its members have done nothing other than pursue the sect’s goal of ensuring that states in […]
Minister of Defence, Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed gave an assurance yesterday that the Boko Haram crisis would soon be resolved. According to him, if the Niger Delta and Plateau crises could be settled, Boko Haram would not be different. He spoke to reporters in Kaduna shortly after inspecting some facilities at the Nigerian Defence Academy […]
THE Federal Government will soon work out a plan that would bring an end to the Boko Haram insurgency, the Minister of Defence, Dr Haliru Mohammed Bello, has said. Bello, speaking in Kaduna, on Wednesday, said although insecurity was not peculiar to Nigeria, the Federal Government had its security plan for the country and would […]
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18, (THEWILL) – An adherent of late Mallam Muhammad Yusuf, the slain leader of Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, which in Arabic means “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad” also popularly called Boko Haram, Mallam Ali Teshako has challenged the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger […]
A suspected member of the Boko Haram sect has been shot dead in Maiduguri during a gun battle with members of the Military Joint Task Force on Operation Restore Order. The JTF spokesman Lt. Col. Hassan Mohammed said the crossfire ensued when the members of the military task force were observing the scene of […]
The National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azzazi, has said that there is a need to train the nation’s security operatives on how to get information from the public. Azzazi, on Saturday, said that the security agencies needed professional training on how to elicit information from the general public on the Boko Haram sect. He […]
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