Abuja – Nigerian Troops have intercepted and killed many Boko Haram terrorists while trying to escape the onslaught on the Sambisa forest. In a statement, the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, on Wednesday, said the insurgents were “ decisively dealt with” while trying to escape through Pulka. He said many of the […]
A UN top aid official in Cameroon, Najat Rochdi, on Tuesday said Boko Haram Islamist militant group was expanding and the time to stop them was now. Rochdi, who is Resident Coordinator of UN aids activities in the country, said in Yaoundé that the terrorists’ strategy was to demonstrate its power with daily suicide bombings, using […]
By Demola Akinyemi ILORIN— Chairman, Conference of Speakers of State Houses of Assembly, in Nigeria and Speaker, Borno State House of Assembly, Abdulkarim Lawan, has said only one local government is yet to be liberated from the Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State out the 20 local government areas earlier occupied. He also assured that […]
By Abdulsalam Muhammad The KANO – – – -Scores were feared dead at Dakasoye village, Garun Mallam local goverment area of Kano, Friday, when a suicide bomber hit Shia procession on their way to Zaria, witness says. The incident which occurred by 2.00pm was said to have affected mostly women and children. A local Journalist, […]
A couple of minutes after the explosion, angry residents gathered the fragmented remains of the female suicide bombers a few metres away from scene of the blast, piled used tyres on the pieces and set them ablaze. One of our correspondents, who visited the scene of the explosion a few hours after the blast, observed […]
Two bomb blasts ripped through mosques in northeast Nigeria on Friday, killing at least 55 people and injuring more than 100, as Boko Haram fighters briefly seized a town in neighbouring Cameroon. The attacks in Maiduguri, Yola and the Cameroonian town of Kerawa again underlined the persistent national and regional threat from the Islamist militants, […]
A suicide bomber killed six people in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, on Friday, the country’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. The agency said at least 17 other people were injured and taken to hospital after the blast at a mosque during early morning prayers. -Vanguard wp_posts
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – Five alleged masterminds of the bomb blasts that rocked the Kuje and Nyanya axis of Abuja on October 2, 2015, were yesterday, arraigned before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court. The accused persons who were docked on a five-count terrorism charge yesterday were Abdulazeez Muhazab, Ishaka Salihu, Mohammed […]
From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja The hope of routing Boko Haram by end of December seems remote as the military told President Muhammadu Buhari how the current weather conditions in parts of the country and some logistics issue have been hampering the terror war. The service chiefs led by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi […]
Senator Shehu Sani sensationally listed 13 factors responsible for the growth of Boko Haram in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria. Sani, who represents Kaduna Central in the Eighth Senate, said this when he received a delegation of Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) in his Kaduna office yesterday. “I have been able to identify 13 […]
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