THE Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Garbai El-Kanemi, has declared that it is erroneous to trace the roots of the Boko Haram insurgency to Borno State, insisting that insurgency was “imported into this state” from one of the four neighbouring states in the North-East sub-region of the country. El-Kanemi, who spoke on Thursday when […]
Defeating Boko Haram with mercenaries March 19, 2015 By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu LET me first start, that like all Nigerian patriots, I feel happy that in a few weeks, the Nigerian Army and allies from Chad and Niger, inflicted backbreaking blows on the Boko Haram insurgency. As a result, many communities hitherto occupied by the […]
Members of Boko Haram sect Thirty-four persons were killed and 12 wounded in a fresh bomb attack on the Monday Market in Maiduguri, Borno State on Tuesday. Eight others were killed and 15 others injured in another highway ambush by members of Boko Haram at Ngamdu, a village along the Maiduguri/Damaturu Road at about […]
The Nigerian Army has launched a major operation to liberate the strategic town of Bama, Borno State from Boko Haram insurgents. Investigation revealed on Tuesday that deployment of ground forces and equipment was preceded by days of targeted aerial operations in Bama and its environs. An intelligence source, who made this known, said that the […]
COORDINATED multiple bomb blasts, separately detonated by three suspected female Boko Haram suicide bombers, Saturday, rocked the Maiduguri Monday Market (MMM), Borno Express Terminus motor park and Baga road fish market, killing 55 people and injuring 86 others within an hour. This came as the Nigerian Army through a signed statement announced the recovery of two […]
Boko Haram fighters are preparing in mass at their headquarters in the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza, Maiduguri, Borno State for a showdown with Multinational Joint Task Force, residents and an intelligence officer told The Associated Press. A woman, who was trapped in the town since it was seized in July, 2014 told her daughter […]
The exodus of Nigerians fleeing from Boko Haram attacks in the North-East of the country continues amid an influx of another 16,000 refugees into neighbouring Cameroon, the United Nations refugee agency has said. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the latest movements are expected to bring the total of Nigerian refugees in […]
President Idriss Deby President Idriss Deby of Chad on Wednesday called on Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, to surrender or face death. Derby told a news conference in N’djamena, that he knows the whereabouts of Shekau, who, according to him, was sighted in Dikwa , a village in Borno State two days ago. “Abubakar […]
Nigerian army Chief, Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah, has visited Baga town in Borno State, which has just been recaptured from Boko Haram, reiterating that the militants will be wiped out of Nigeria’s northeast in the next few weeks. Chief Of Army Staff, Kenneth Minimah Nigerian Army FB page Gen. Minimah arrived Maiduguri earlier in the […]
Kano motor park bombing scene… on Tuesday There was bloodbath in Kano and Potiskum on Tuesday following suicide bomb attacks on motor parks in the two cities. Fifteen people died and 53 others were injured in the Potiskum, Yobe State attack while 12 were said to have lost their lives in the incident at the […]
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