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Adamawa, Africa & World Politics, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
Chadian and Nigerien troops fighting Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East are reportedly begging their Nigerian counterparts to take over towns recaptured from the sect. Nigerian authorities had announced that troops had recaptured all towns occupied by members of the terrorist group in Adamawa and Yobe states, remaining Borno, the last of the three north-eastern […]
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Abia, Abuja (FCT), Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Election 2015, Elections, Enugu, Gombe, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85), Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Presidency, Rivers, Sokoto, State News, Taraba, Top Stories, Yobe, Zamfara
Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
State-by-state projection of their chances With the presidential election just around the corner, our correspondents write that the battle, which is a straight one between President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari, may spring some surprises As Nigerians, nay the world, wait for the March 28 presidential election and the 10 competing political parties putting […]
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Adamawa, Borno, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Headlines, Presidency, State News
Saturday, February 28th, 2015
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Thursday in Mubi, Adamawa State and Baga, Borno State applauded Nigerian troops for proving their mettle once again through the rapid recapture of territories formerly held by insurgents in the country’s North-Eastern states. Addressing officers and men of the Nigerian Army in both towns, which were recently recaptured from Boko Haram, […]
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Adamawa, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Thursday, February 19th, 2015
Cameroonian soldiers carrying a colleague wounded by Boko Haram fighters … on Wednesday The members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect attacked Gaya village in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State in the early hours of Thursday. Investigations revealed that the rampaging insurgents killed 30 indigenes of the community said to be located near […]
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Adamawa, EFCC Politics, Headlines, State News
Saturday, February 7th, 2015
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared Murtala Nyako, former governor of Adamawa state, and his son, Abdul Aziz, wanted. Wilson Uwujaren, the spokesman of the commission, announced this in a statement issued on Wednesday. “The duo of Murtala Nyako, former governor of Adamawa state and Abdul Aziz Murtala Nyako, are wanted by […]
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Adamawa, Armed Forces, Headlines, State News
Saturday, January 31st, 2015
military authorities, on Friday, confirmed that its troops sacked the terrorists who had been occupying Michika and its environs in Adamawa State. This is contained in a statement issued by the Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade in Abuja. The statement said that extensive mop-up operation and search for arms and stranded terrorists and […]
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Adamawa, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Monday, January 19th, 2015
Residents of Guyuk town in Adamawa State on Monday killed four suspected armed Boko Haram members. Guyuk, the headquarters of Guyuk Local Government Area of Adamawa State shares border with Borno State. An eyewitness, Mallam Aminu Buba Usman, in a telephone interview with our correspondent from Guyuk, said, “The Boko Haram members are suspected to […]
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Adamawa, Armed Forces, Bauchi, Boko Haram, Borno, Gombe, Headlines, State News, Yobe
Friday, December 12th, 2014
The Nigerian Army has discovered a plan by the Boko Haram insurgents to attack 25 communities and villages spread across five states in the troubled North-East zone. A credible security source, who confided in our correspondent on Thursday, said that the Boko Haram hit list was recovered by Special Forces during an operation at the […]
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Adamawa, Armed Forces, Headlines, State News
Thursday, November 27th, 2014
By Umar Yusuf.No fewer than 35 people including five military personnel and a local hunter were reported to have been killed by a bomb explosion Thursday morning around Mararaba-Mubi area of Adamawa State.Eyewitness told Newsmen in Yola, the state capital that a combined team of the military and local hunters on routine patrol of the […]
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Adamawa, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Friday, November 14th, 2014
A combined team of local hunters, civilian JTF and the Nigerian soldiers on Wednesday night launched a fierce battle against Boko Haram insurgents and recaptured Mubi and its environ, which had earlier fell into the hands of the sect. Reports from Mubi also indicated that five Nigerian Armoured Personnel Carriers, seized by the dreaded Islamists […]
