A prosecution witness in the on-going trial of the six police officers suspected to have killed the leader of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, Mohammed Yusuf, Colonel Benjamin Ahamotu yesterday told the Federal High Court that killing of members of the sect was a legitimate duty. Ahamotu who led the army troop that arrested Yusuf […]
Fundamental Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has vowed to mow down nine more persons in addition to a groom that was shot dead after a wedding fatiha in Maiduguri, Borno State on Saturday. The disclosure came yesterday as the sect’s spokesman, Abu Kaka, dissociated the group from the death of two men shot dead on Sunday […]
Worried by the upsurge in violence in some states in the North, the Women General Assembly of the Tarraya Ekklisiyoyi Kristi A Nigeria (Fellowship of the Churches of Christ in Nigeria) on Saturday in Kaduna urged the government to punish anyone funding the violent acts in the region. The General Assembly of the fellowship also […]
By Jide Ajani The investigations by the Department of State Service (SSS) into the alleged complicity of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume and the activities of the Boko Haram sect, took a new twist, as one Alhaji Sanda Konduga, whoclaimed to be the father of a suspect, Ali Sanda Konduga, declared that his son is insane. […]
The Army High Command yesterday disclosed that the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic fundamentalists group killed 140 people in 138 attacks carried out between the year 2010 and 2011. This is coming at a time the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, said that the sect was a product of bad governance and […]
Senator Ali Muhammed Ndume currently standing trial over his alleged links with Boko Haram on Thursday returned to an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court where he is facing felony charges with an application seeking to be admitted to bail pending his trial. The court, however, reserved ruling on the application till Monday, December 5, 2011. Senator […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A US congressional report on Wednesday flagged Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist sect as an “emerging threat” that could represent an eventual security risk to the United States and its interests. The group has been blamed for scores of attacks in Nigeria, including the August suicide bombing of the United Nations’ Nigeria headquarters […]
WORRIED by the incessant spate of violence in some states in the North as a result of menace from the Boko Haram sect, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said that it will hold a peace and unity conference in Kaduna on December 6. The ACF, however, said that it was helpless in curbing the […]
A source closed to Army Generals of the Northern extraction has attributed the silence of the officers from the region on the menace of the Boko Haram sect on the fear of being misquoted by the public. According to the source would not like to make public comment on the issue to avoid being misquoted […]
THE fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, again struck on Saturday evening, killing four policemen, wounding about 20 others and burning some churches as they attacked the police head-quaters in Geidam, Yobe State. The attack on the police headquarters, according to Agency report, set the small North-East ablaze, in a wave of night-time gun and bomb attacks by […]
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