Former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, was yesterday quizzed by the State Security Services (SSS) operatives in Abuja over the Boko Haram menace. He has since been released. Besides, the Islamic fundamentalists lived up to its threat as it bombed a popular joint in Kaduna on Sunday night. Scores were injured but no life […]
DESPITE heavy security put in place to tame the Boko Haram sect and as the Senate was having crucial meeting with security chiefs in Abuja on how to find solution to the problem, yesterday, the group struck again killing seven persons in separate attacks in Maiduguri, Borno State. Those killed included two policemen, a soldier, […]
LESS than 24 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan told the Boko Haram sect that “enough is enough,” the group struck yesterday in Maiduguri, Borno State killing five people in bomb blast. Ten others were injured and taken to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH). Also, armed men suspected to be members of the group […]
No fewer than 36 nationals of Chad Republic and Cameroon were said to have been killed at the local ‘Burkuttu’ joint at Dala Kabamti ward of Maiduguri metropolitan when gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram opened fire at the ‘Burkuttu’ joint in Borno State, recently. Speaking with Sunday Tribune, leader of the Chadian/Cameroon […]
THE Nigerian Army has assured Nigerians that it is equal to the task of bringing the menace of Boko Haram to an end and vowed that operations towards that end will commence very soon. The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika, who stated this in Abuja on Monday while answering questions from newsmen, after […]
For residents of Bauchi State, the fear of Boko Haram is now the beginning of wisdom. Indeed, people of the state are now gripped with anxiety following the bomb blasts at the police headquarters in Abuja and Damboa, Borno State, respectively, for which the group claimed responsibility. Bauchi, the Bauchi State capital, is no stranger […]
Four people were on Sunday night shot dead at a beer parlour in Bulunkutu, a Maiduguri, Borno State suburb even as the Islamic sect gave conditions before it could ceasefire. Among the conditions given for truce was the resignation of the newly-elected governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, prosecution of his predecessor, Senator Modu Ali Sheriff and […]
Maiduguri – The Borno State Police Command has confirmed that four persons were killed on Sunday by suspected Boko Haram militants at a drinking joint in Bulumkutu, Maiduguri even as the Islamic sect has given conditions to the government for laying down their arms Malam Lawal Abdullahi, the command’s Public Relations Officer, said yesterday in […]
Ministry of Health, Catholic Church affected || Two bombs exploded at the main store of the Disease Control Unit (epidemiological) of the Borno State Ministry of Health on Wednesday. Drugs, vaccines and other property worth millions of naira were destroyed. The bombs were suspected to have been planted by members of the Boko Haram sect. […]
Maiduguri – Suspected Boko Haram members late on Wednesday set the office of the Borno State National Programme on Immunisation (NPI) in Unguwan Doki in Maiduguri ablaze. Residents of the place, in Maiduguri on Thursday, said that the fanatics attacked the building with explosives. “We were at home watching the Nigeria/Argentina match when we heard […]
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