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
At least 12 students have been injured in an open fire by a gunman suspected to be a member of the Boko Haram militants on Friday outside a school in the city of Potiskum, Yobe state. “We have evacuated 12 people with serious gunshot wounds to hospital from the scene of the shooting attack,” said […]
Twenty-five girls and women freed from Boko Haram camp in Sambisa forest as army continues offensive against the group. Nigerian military says it has rescued 25 more children and women from Boko Haram as part of its ongoing campaign to attack and destroy the armed group’s camps in the northeast. Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman […]
The Tarok Community in Plateau State has raised an alarm over alleged plans by some powerful Nigerians to wipe them out. The alarm followed the killing at the weekend of an estimated 500 persons in Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State by men in military uniforms. Five villages in Kadarko district of Wase LGA […]
Members of the Boko Haram have been indoctrinated to believe that the children they father by women of other faiths are automatically Muslims. They therefore have no inhibition raping the girls and women they abduct. Those were the words of the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, on Monday giving a psychological analysis of the atrocities […]
The recently rescued girls and women by the Nigerian military from Boko Haram captivity in Sambisa are not from Chibok but from Gumsuri, a village in Borno State, BBC reports. Quoting the Associated Press, BBC said this was the conclusion of the officials after series of interviews with the victims. In December, it […]
Boko Haram fighters took turns on Sunday to stone captives to death, some girls and women were crushed by an armored car and three died when a land mine exploded as they walked to freedom. Through tears, smiles and eyes filled with pain, the survivors of months in the hands of the Islamic extremists told […]
The Nigerian military on Saturday formally handed over 275 women and children rescued from the terrorists’ stronghold-Sambisa forest– to officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) for rehabilitation. Speaking while handing the victims to NEMA, the acting commander of the 23 Armoured Brigade, Yola, Col. Aba Popoola, said the army had no facilities
The Nigerian Army has rescued another set of 234 women and children through the Kawuri and Konduga end of Sambisa forest on Thursday. The women and children were captured by Boko Haram in Borno State. According to the Director of Defence Information, Chris Olukolade, said the freed captives are currently undergoing screening with about 300 […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has unveiled plans to distribute relief materials to the hundreds of females liberated by the military from the captivity of terror group, Boko Haram, in their hideout in Sambisa Forest, Borno State. The military had announced the rescue of 293 women and girls from Sambisa Forest on Tuesday while […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has unveiled plans to distribute relief materials to the hundreds of females liberated by the military from the captivity of terror group, Boko Haram, in their hideout in Sambisa Forest, Borno State. The military had announced the rescue of 293 women and girls from Sambisa Forest on Tuesday while […]
The Nigerian Military said troops from the 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, have rescued more women and killed several Boko Haram commanders. In a statement on Wednesday, the Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman said the troops cleared several terrorists’ strong points and training camps in the Sambisa forest in Borno and […]
•They’re not from Chibok, says DHQ A total of 293 females have been rescued from Boko Haram in Sambisa Forest, as Nigerian troops raided the notorious last stronghold of the terrorists in Borno State, military au-thorities disclosed on Tues-day.Two hundred of those rescued were girls, while the remaining 93 were women, the Defence spokesman, […]
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has dismissed reports making the rounds in some section of the media that soldiers have withdrawn from the Sambisa forest which is reputed to be the stronghold of the Boko Haram insurgents, and that insurgents have gained control of some territories in Borno state. Speaking through a statement on Tuesday, […]
Nigeria’s dreaded general elections have come and gone and for the most part, they were peaceful and uneventful. While there were sundry reports of pockets of retail violence in certain parts of the country, there were no wholesale violent incidents worth bellyaching over. For the first time in her tortured electoral history the blood of […]
South Africa Central Intelligence Organisation, has raised an alarm that the Nigerian militant group, Boko Haram is in Zimbabwe en route to South Africa on a revenge mission. Police officers in sections of Matebeleland and Bulawayo towns, have been put on security standby following a tip-off from the South African intelligence service that the […]
It is not easy to find out the truth in Nigeria. The Baga killings are a case in point, with politicians and government officials offering vastly different information – from 150 dead to 2,000. News of another attack by Islamist militants from Boko Haram often starts as a vague one-liner as was the case on […]
Apparently seeking wider territories, the Boko Haram sect has change its name to the Islamic State in West Africa, an indication that it has set its sight beyond Nigeria to the sub region. The group’s action is also a clear move for closer affinity with a more organised terror group in the Middle East, the […]
Nigeria’s terror Boko Haram sect has released new photos of militants and calls itself the Islamic group empire in West Africa. Images, which were released in the pages of modern relatives, are defined as those fighters were martyred. In this case, the terror group did not cover their faces contrary to Boko Haram’s usual drive […]
Members of the Boko Haram sect have continued their reign of terror, killing about 19 persons in a Camerounian village, Bia, last Thursday, according to Agence France Presse (AFP). Most of the victims were beheaded, the report added. “The final toll from this attack is 19 dead, with a majority of the victims decapitated,” a […]
