LAGOS (AFP) – Attacks by Islamist group Boko Haram have killed at least 935 people since the sect launched a violent campaign in 2009, including 250 this year alone, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. “More than 935 people have been killed in some 164 suspected attacks” since Boko Haram launched its campaign of shooting […]
The suspension of a nationwide strike which paralysed Nigeria with enervating toll on neighbouring nations was greeted with relief, amid speculation that the last has not been heard about the hike in petroleum products’ pricing in the country. In Cotonou, the economic capital of Benin Republic, many roads are crowded once more. Aside the countless […]
West African security experts met in Nouakchott yesterday on the threat posed by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its possible ties to Islamist sect Boko Haram in Nigeria, a security source said. Nigeria and Burkina Faso have been invited to the two-day meeting between Sahel states Algeria, Mauritania and Mali which will end with […]
The Kano State Police Command yesterday confirmed that 186 persons were killed in the multiple bomb attacks masterminded by Boko Haram members last Friday. The breakdown showed that the victims include 29 policemen, three were operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) while one was a Customs office, among others. Also killed were two Immigration […]
Fresh facts emerged yesterday on what led to the killing of three members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) by soldiers in the commercial city of Onitsha on Sunday evening. Addressing journalists yesterday on the development, the MASSOB Director of Information, Mr. Uchenna Madu, said the major cause […]
Defence authorities have reportedly uncovered a plot to bomb the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Also on attack in a fresh orgy of violence set to be unleashed on Abuja, the federal capital, is a highbrow hotel in the heart of the city (name […]
Five members of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, suspected to be behind a plan to bomb government formations in Port Harcourt have been arrested by the army. Our correspondent learnt that the five suspects were arrested in the oil city last month and were being detained at 2 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt […]
The death toll of Friday’s multiple bomb attacks and shooting in Kano rose to over 160 on Saturday, making it the highest that the country has recorded in the history of Boko Haram bomb blasts. An official at the city’s main mortuary, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to the Agence France Presse, […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday consoled the families of the victims of the multiple bomb blasts in Kano on Friday. Jonathan also commiserated with the management of a Lagos-based private television station, Channels, over the killing of its Kano State correspondent, Mr. Enenche Akogwu, in the crisis. A statement by the Special Adviser to the […]
January 22, 2012 by Agency reporter 64 Comments The Deputy Head of Mission of the Israeli Embassy in Nigeria, Mr George Deek, has reiterated Israel’s willingness to partner with Nigeria in the fight against terrorism. He told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that to mitigate the effects of terrorism, the authorities and the […]
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