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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
Badeh; Ihejirika Amnesty International has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands to investigate some former and serving Nigerian service chiefs for war crimes. The crimes, according to the global civil rights organisation, were perpetrated during the fight against Boko Haram in the North-East between March 2011 and […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade Another bomb blast rocked the troubled Borno State capital of Maiduguri late on Tuesday morning , leaving many dead and others wounded. Prior to the explosion at the popular Kasuwan Shanu (meat market), residents were rudely woken up at 12:45am on Monday by gunshots that boomed in […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, National Politics
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015
By Ujunwa Ochulo on June 2, 2015 Boko Haram rejected claims from Nigeria’s military that it has been routed by a four-nation offensive in a video released online on Tuesday, which does not show the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. The unidentified speaker calls Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, who have been battling the Islamists, […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, State News
Friday, May 29th, 2015
President Buhari stated during his speech that, “The command centre will be relocated to Maiduguri and remain until Boko Haram is completely subdued. But we can not claim to have defeated Boko Haram without rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage by insurgents.” Bihari during his acceptance speech this morning President […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, United Nations
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
The United Nations Children’s Fund has called on the incoming All Progressives Congress-led government to find a way of protecting girls and women from the onslaught of Boko Haram. The UNICEF said the number of Nigerian girls and women being used in suicide-bombing attacks was increasing at an alarming rate. In a statement issued on […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Sunday, May 17th, 2015
Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana(SAN) | credits: File copy Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), on Saturday, said 12 soldiers, who were sentenced to death for mutiny in September 2014, have been starved and held underground by the military. Falana in an interview with Sahara TV, which was monitored by our correspondent, said […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Friday, May 15th, 2015
Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade | credits: twitter.com [UPDATED] The Nigerian Army on Friday temporarily relaxed the curfew imposed on Maiduguri, the capital of troubled Borno State. It is believed that this is done in order to allow the Muslim faithful in the town to attend the Friday Islamic congregational prayer. Though the […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Monday, May 11th, 2015
By Luka Binniyat Old giant threes with fat, twisting trunks that outlived their colonial planters, spread forth their huge branches of green leaves over the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, Jengree in Bassa Local Government Area, LGA, of Plateau State. The hospital, said to be over 60 years old, bore all the trappings of colonial structures […]
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American Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines, Top Stories
Sunday, May 10th, 2015
Abubakar Shekau The United States is still maintaining the $7 million (N1.4 billion) bounty it placed on the leader of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. The US Department of State on Wednesday issued a list of 71 most-wanted terrorists in the world with bounties totalling $375m (N74.6bn) as “rewards for information that leads […]
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Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
This handout picture released by the Nigerian army on April 30, 2015 and taken this week in an undisclosed location in the Sambisa Forest, Borno state, purportedly shows a member of the Nigerian Army standing next to a group of girls rescued in an operation against the Islamist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram hostages were […]
