A screengrab from YouTube reportedly shows the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, who threatens in an audio message to bomb schools in Nigeria. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images The Islamist group Boko Haram, which has killed almost 1,000 people in Nigeria, will continue its campaign of violence until the country is ruled by sharia law, a senior […]
Northern Governors Plead With Non-Indigenes To Remain • Boko Haram, In New Message,Threatens To Bomb Sokoto IN droves, they besieged motor parks in the ancient city that has been under siege of gunmen in the past few days. The intended journey was not one of the numerous routine trips they had always done, to and […]
THE Boko Haram sect has warned the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, to intervene in the release of its arrested members by the police, as failure to do so could lead to attacks and bombings of Sokoto, as it did in Kano on Friday, January 20, 2012. The sect alleged that many […]
In the history of Kano State and in its relationship with the non-native communities that seek their means of livelihood in the state, there has never been such a panic rush to get out of the state by the same people that once called the state their home. With the multiple bombing in the state […]
Call it fear of Boko Haram or the unknown. But the Igbo Elders Forum met yesterday at the residence of the late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, and asked its kinsmen resident in the northern part of Nigeria to return home. The call was occasioned by the activities of the Islamist fundamentalist sect, Boko […]
The Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has threatened to adopt a change of tactics in a message posted on YouTube yesterday. The sect also restated that it was behind last week’s attacks in Kano saying bombings and shootings were to avenge the torture of its members. “We were responsible,” a voice identified as that of suspected […]
The Commissioner of Police, Zakari Biu, who handled the case of a Boko Haram suspect, Kabir Sokoto, will be dismissed, investigations have revealed. Our correspondents learnt in Abuja on Wednesday that the five policemen, who accompanied Sokoto to Abaji, would also face trial. It was learnt that a committee, headed by the National Security […]
Members of the Islamist group Boko Haram have received explosives training at al Qaeda camps in North Africa, Niger’s foreign minister has alleged. Boko Haram, which has claimed responsibility for the series of bombings in the North, may have also received training from Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents, according to the Nigerian Foreign Minister, Mohamed […]
A security expert, Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe, says until security agencies infiltrate Boko Haram and understand its ideology, command structure and mode of operation, the violent group will continue to succeed in its dastardly activities. Sara-Idigbe, a former Security Adviser to the Rivers State Government, also in Abuja on Tuesday advised the security agencies to pay […]
Security agents on Tuesday killed Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, a textile merchant suspected to be a leader of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, during a five-hour gun duel. His pregnant wife, who was at his residence in Hotoro, Nassarawa Local Government Area when the team stormed the building, was also shot dead. After the battle, […]
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