BY NDAHI MARAMA MAIDUGURI—No fewer than 185 persons, including women and children, have been killed and more than 2000 houses destroyed in an intense fighting between the military and suspected members of Boko Haram sect in Baga, a fishing community in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State. Soldiers were said to have bombarded the […]
BY NDAHI MARAMA, Maiduguri A policeman was killed by unknown gunmen at the wedding of his two daughters in Damboa town in Damboa local government area of Borno State, local sources said yesterday, saying the incident happened on Friday. Residents told our correspondent that the deceased policeman was shot dead in front of his house […]
From TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, Maiduguri Gunmen believed to be Boko Haram have again attacked the hilly Gwoza town, southeast of Borno, broke into a prison in a bloody operation, which led to the death of at least one person while unspecified numbers of inmates were freed. Sources said the gunmen numbering over 10 stormed the Gwoza […]
Seven loud explosions shook Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Friday, witnesses said, hours after President Goodluck Jonathan ended a trip there to try to galvanize support for his battle against Islamist insurgents. Witnesses said the explosions happened within minutes of each other, suggesting the kind of coordinated strike that used to be the hallmark […]
By Rasheed Olokode – Barring any unforeseen contingencies, President Goodluck Jonathan would have, by today, paid his first ever post-inauguration visit to Maiduguri, Borno State or Damaturu, Yobe State, the hotbed of terrorism that has turned Northern Nigeria into a human-slaughtering abattoir and real-life theatre of horror and war since the 2009 emergence of Boko […]
From TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, Maiduguri President Goodluck Jonathan will today commence two-day official visit to Borno and Yobe states, the first since he became president. His initial plan to be in Borno for the flag-off of his presidential campaigns for the northeast in the build-up to the 2011 electioneering was cancelled midway and shifted to the […]
Maiduguri – The Borno Police Command on Tuesday confirmed that gunmen killed 18 local hunters in Damboa, headquarters of Damboa Local Government Area of the state. Mr Gideon Jibrin, the spokesman of the command, said in a text message to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri, that he got news of the incident. […]
From TIMOTHY OLA, Maiduguri Seven people including a soldier, a policeman and five others died yesterday in a fresh attack on a military formation in Borno by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram. According to sources, the gunmen had launched the attack on the 21 Brigade troops’ located at Marte, Marte Local Government Area in […]
Maiduguri— Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, yesterday, wept openly while presenting the 2013 appropriation bill before the state House of Assembly following the havoc wreaked on the state by members of an Islamic sect. The governor, who became emotional towards the end of his presentation, however, affirmed that the state would rise again. “Surely […]
NO fewer than 12 worshippers were killed in Potiskum, Yobe State and Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Monday when gunmen suspected to be members of Islamic sect, Boko Haram, attacked two churches in the Northern Nigeria towns, police said. CNN quoted the police to have said one assault occurred at the Church of Christ […]
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