At least 5 Boko Haram militants who were in Mosul, Iraq to undergo military training under ISIS were killed on Wednesday, May 13th by Mosul Youth Resistance Movement. The spokesperson for Mosul, Saed Mamuzini, told the press that the Mosul Youth Resistance Movement, which was recently formed to
Due to the massive killing by the Boko Haram sect in Maiduguri, the Army on Wednesday evening declared a 24 hours curfew. Gunshots and explosions were heard in the city from about 6pm to the dark hours making indigenes flee their homes but they couldn’t go far as the military blocked major roads and streets […]
The report reaching Dailytimes now has revealed that there have been sporadic gunshots and explosions at Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State this Wednesday evening. Details Later.
The second-in-command of Islamic State (IS) has been killed in a US-led coalition air strike in northern Iraq, the Iraqi ministry of defense says. According to BBC, Abdul Rahman Mustafa Mohammed, also known as Abu Alaa al-Afri, was inside a mosque in Tal Afar that was targeted, spokesman Brig-Gen Tahsin Ibrahim said. He had been […]
Thirty top Army officers are to face military court-martial over their conduct in the ongoing war against terrorism, PREMIUM TIMES reported on Monday. One of the officers, Brigadier General Enitan Ransome-Kuti, may be related to music maestro, the late Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Military authorities neither confirmed nor denied the report when contacted by the Daily […]
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 […]
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 […]
