The Nigerian military says it is investigating claims that the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is dead. His death has not been independently confirmed. It is also not the first time a claim like this has been made. The reports have nevertheless raised questions about who has the upper hand in the region – Boko […]
The leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has released an audio in which he reacted to the death sentence of Yahaya Sherif-Aminu, the musician who was charged guilty for blasphemy. In an 11-minute audio made available to Humangle, Shekau criticised the Kano State government for practising democracy in a state known to be […]
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Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has released another video threatening the Minister of communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami. The video which is currently trending on Twitter, has attracted a lot of reactions from Nigerians. Shekau and his people (Boko Haram) are Godless, mindless and far away from Islam. https://t.co/4tk7ZFgsRS — Ummy Mustapha (@ummynatty) February […]
Leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to visit Borno State again as the sect is fully on ground in the north-east. In a video the Boko Haram leader released on Thursday, 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari visited Borno, Shekau said the insurgents would attack the president if he […]
It’s over two whole years, the actions or voice of the strongest, vicious and potently atrocious Boko Haram factional leader, Abubakar Shekau has been heard nor his shadows sighted anywhere. Before the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the cursed Boko Haram leader, Shekau was a lion and king of the Boko Haram jungle. He straddled […]
A 32 year-old former Boko Haram Commander, Rawana Goni, has appealed to the Nigerian military authorities to allow him make a phone call to the elusive leader, Abubakar Shekau and at least 137 other terrorists to make them surrender. Goni, who is undergoing rehabilitation at a military detention camp in Maiduguri, said this in an […]
Mother of Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the terrorist organisation, Boko Haram, Falmata Abubakar, has said that she has not seen her son in 15 years. In an interview with VOA Hausa service, Ms Abubakar said she had no idea where her son was or his situation. In a report published on Thursday, the VOA […]
A journalist known to have access to the leadership of Boko Haram sect, Ahmad Salkida, has said that his only regret in reporting the insurgency, is that he turned down several requests to interview Abubakar Shekau, leader of the sect. Salkida said this while replying to series of questions asked him on Twitter. He added […]
It took America over a decade to hunt for Al Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the terrorists attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon House, September 11, 2001, also popularly referred to as 9/11 attacks. And for years, Bin Laden remained a fugitive, hiding in caves and forests in different parts […]
The Nigerian Army has flayed insinuations that troops movement under Operation DEEP PUNCH II was temporarily halted to aid Boko Haram Leader, Abubakar Shekau, escaped. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, in a statement issued in Maiduguri, dismissed the report as “not true”. Nwachukwu said the ongoing clearance operation by troops of […]
The Nigerian Air Force said that it believed the wife of Boko Haram terrorists leader, Abubakar Shekau, Mallama Fitdasi, had been killed in air strikes on a hideout in Durwawa area. Durwawa is a location in the Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State. More to follow
Over 134 suicide bombings have occurred since 2009 when Boko Haram unleashed a campaign of terror on Nigeria’s north-east region. According to research by Combating Terrorism Center at West Point and Yale University, at least 244 of the 338 attacks since 2011 where gender is identifiable, have been young girls under the age of 7 […]
A former President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ameh Ebute has called on the United Nations (UN) security council to sanction Cameroun, Chad over what he called their complacency and role in the activities of the Boko Haram insurgency which has displaced millions of Nigerians. Senator Ebute in a letter addressed to UN, Secretary-General, stated […]
President Idris Deby of Chad on Monday stunned newsmen and other listeners when he stated that he does not know the whereabouts of the leader of the Islamic terrorist sect, Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau. It would be recalled that President Deby had in a widely circulated report some months ago, claimed that he knew […]
Boko Haram Insurgents have released the first images of their terror activities since pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Earlier this year the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, released a video saying the group had pledged allegiance to ISIS and would be dropping the name Boko Haram. Instead they now refer to […]
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation has urges Nigerians not to be deceived by the plans of PDP to win the Presidential election by their plans to unleash a fake leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau on the opposition party. A statement signed by Mallam Garba Shehu, Director of Media and Publicity of the APC […]