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Adamawa, Boko Haram, Headlines, Nigerian Police, Raw Politics, State News
Friday, March 9th, 2012
By SaharaReporters, New York Unknown gunmen opened fire at a car dealership in Yola, Adamawa state on Friday afternoon killing the police officer in charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in the state. Eyewitnesses told Saharareporters that the assailants might have trailed the senior police officer to the scene. The officer, Mohammed Ali, was a […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines
Friday, March 9th, 2012
The Boko Haram Islamic sect yesterday warned some journalists to stop or desist from misr-epresenting their views at a Media Telephone Conferencing, stressing that enough is enough. Women under the aegis of concerned mothers of Borno also yesterday protested what they termed wanton killings and destruction of public properties in the state. The women comprising […]
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Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Friday, March 9th, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday pleaded with all those involved in unleashing violence on the nation, including members of Islamic sect, Boko Haram, to lay down their arms in the interest of the nation. He urged them to embrace peace so that they could join hands with his administration to tackle the nation’s common enemies, […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Friday, March 9th, 2012
KANO (AFP) – Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram on Friday denied any involvement in the kidnapping of a Briton and Italian who were killed during a bid to rescue them in northwestern Sokoto city. “We are not behind the hostage taking … which led to the military operation yesterday in Sokoto in which the hostages […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
By Ike Abonyi Further revelations emerged Wednesday from the interrogation room of the State Security Service (SSS) when the two principal suspects of the Boko Haram, Abu Qaqa, who was the spokesman of the group, and his recaptured colleague, Kabiru Sokoto, gave insights into why the group attacked Muslims, Churches and schools. The revelation […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Nigerian Police
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
By Segun Awofadeji A Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Mr. Abbubakar Sadiq, three other policemen and a civilian were Thursday feared dead, while another Police Inspector was short on the leg by unknown gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram, during a night attack on a police station and two new generation banks in Ashaka-Bajoga, […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
The governors of the 19 northern states on Thursday in Kaduna said they have resolved to deal decisively with the problem of insecurity posed by the militant Islamic sect, the Boko Haram in the region. The governors, who met at the General Hassan Usman Katsina State House, Kaduna, amid very tight security provided […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
ABUJA (AFP) – A British and an Italian hostage killed on Thursday were murdered by “their Boko Haram captors” and those responsible have been arrested, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said in a statement. Jonathan “condemned the killing of two kidnapped foreigners — an Italian and a British citizen — in Sokoto state Thursday by their […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
THE Federal High Court, Abuja Division yesterday fixed April 3, 2012 for definite trial of Mohammed Ashafa over his alleged link with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic Boko Haram sect. Although Ashafa was first arrested and arraigned and granted bail in 2006, he was re-arrested by the State Security Service (SSS) in July 2011 for alleged […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
From JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja Thursday, March 08, 2012 The Federal Government yesterday approved the White Paper on the report of the Presidential Committee on Security Challenges in the North East Zone of Nigeria set up by President Goodluck Jonathan and chaired by Ambassador Usman Gaji Galtimari to investigate the remote and immediate causes of the […]
