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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, National Politics, Sultan of Sokoto, Top Stories
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
By Luka Binniyat KADUNA — THE Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday, asked President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately grant amnesty to all members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, as a way of encouraging them to lay down their arms. Abubakar, who is also the President-General of Ja’matu Nasril Islam, JNI, the umbrella […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
France will not negotiate with Boko Haram gunmen who have taken a French family of seven hostage, the country’s Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said yesterday. The three adults and four children were kidnapped in Cameroon’s far north, near the Nigerian border in Borno State, last week. In a video posted online on Monday, the […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Lagos, State News
Sunday, February 24th, 2013
The Lagos State Government on Saturday urged residents of the state to ignore reported threats by some groups to attack the state. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Lateef Ibirogba, and the Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, said the government had put measures in place to ensure the protection of lives and […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Sunday, February 24th, 2013
Maiduguri – A splinter group of the Islamic Boko Haram group, led by Sheikh Abdulaziz Ibn Adam on Saturday insisted that it was ready to dialogue with government to the group’s current bloody campaign. Ibn Adam made the announcement at a news conference in Maiduguri. He said that the group had come to realise that […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
Abu Muhammad Ibn Abdulazeez, commander of the Boko Haram sect in charge of southern and northern Borno who has been speaking for the sect in recent times appeared again yesterday at a press conference with journalists in Maiduguri and absolved the Islamic militant sect of involvement in the kidnap of seven French nationals in the […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Lagos, Ogun, Osun, State News
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
-PunchTerror groups have begun a recruitment drive in the South-West with the aim of establishing cells in the zone, Saturday PUNCH’s investigations have shown. The recruitment drive by the Boko Haram and its breakaway faction, Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis-Sudan, it was gathered, was a prelude to attacks they were planning to launch in the […]
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Boko Haram, Legislature, Senate
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
By JOSEPH ERUNKE ABUJA—THE Senate, Wednesday, descended heavily on terrorism perpetrators as it recommended a capital punishment for those found guilty of the act. Considering a report on “a Bill for an Act to amend the Terrorism (prevention) Act, 2012,” brought forward by its Conference Committee during plenary, the Senate in a unanimous resolution, held […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
PARIS (AFP) – France on Wednesday urged its citizens to leave northern Cameroon after seven members of a French family were seized in a kidnapping officials suspect was carried out by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram. The family — a couple, their children aged five, eight, 10 and 12 and an uncle — were snatched […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
President Francois Hollande confirmed that seven French tourists from one family, including four children, were kidnapped Tuesday in northern Cameroon and said he suspected a Nigeria group was responsible. “What is most probable is they were taken to Nigeria,” Hollande said, adding that they were seized by a Nigeria-based “terrorist group that we know well”. […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines
Friday, February 15th, 2013
A polio worker who narrowly missed death in the hands of gunmen in Kano narrates her experience, writes David Attah Although she was shot in the head and leg, she never ceases praising Allah. As she narrated her ordeal, each sentence was punctuated with the name of Allah. “All I could remember was that we […]
