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
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 […]
Boko Haram insurgents on Friday killed no fewer than 12 people in another bloody attack near Gwoza in Borno State. The attack occurred at the time when operatives of the Nigerian Army were trying to evacuate civilians from the area in batches. Speaking to newsmen, a witness whose parents were killed in the attack, […]
The Federal Government, on Wednesday, disclosed that intelligence gathered indicated that the present military operation was focused on the area where the abducted Chibok school-girls were believed to be held by the Boko Haram terrorists. National Co-ordinator of the National Information Centre, Mr. Mike Omeri, who made the revelation, while updating journalists on
The Adamawa Youth Initiative, an NGO, has called on the President-Elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to create the North East Development Commission for rapid rehabilitation of the region, following its devastation by insurgency. The group made the call on Monday in Yola at a news briefing addressed by its President, Hamisu Medugu. “We want to […]
Nigerians in the United Kingdom, on Wednesday, marked the first year of the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls with a rally opposite the Nigerian High Commission, in London. With chants of: All we are saying, bring back our girls, all we are saying, bring back our girls, the rally, organised by the Nigerian Women in […]
The chairman, Senate committee on Ecology and Environment, Dr. Bukola Saraki has urged Nigerians to be hopeful on the return of the abducted Chibok school girls. Saraki in a statement signed by his media aide, Bamikole Omisore said that “we must remain hopeful of their return, and steadfast in our determination to find them”. The former governor […]
When Boko Haram attacked a school in the town of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria, kidnapping more than 200 girls, on the night of April 14, 2014, the people of my country were aghast. Across the world, millions of people joined them in asking: How was it possible for this terrorist group to act with such […]
President-elect, Major General Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to resume military training with the United States as part of a comprehensive effort to end terrorism in Nigeria. The incoming Federal Government will also work with Nigeria’s neighbours in rooting out the Boko Haram sect from the region. General Buhari made the pledge in an opinion […]
It has been a whole year of pain for the relatives of the missing 219 Chibok girls. Ceremonies are ongoing around the world to mark one year since more than 200 girls were abducted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram. A procession is ongoing in Abuja, with 219 girls from various secondary schools who were […]
The Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents were reportedly seen alive, according to a report by BBC. More than 50 of the girls abducted by militant Islamists in Nigeria last year were seen alive three weeks ago, a woman has told the BBC. She saw the girls in the north-eastern Gwoza town before the […]
Human beings are those creatures that ask questions. In that light let me ask: what exactly do Islamic jihadists want to accomplish with their current spate of violence all over the world. What is their end goal? They transform wherever they are to chaos, a state of total anarchy (Afghanistan was returned to seventh century […]
Boko Haram has yet again made international media headlines, this time through its alleged kidnapping of nearly 200 civilians from the village of Gumsuri in Borno State. Much of the current commentary on the Salafi-jihadi group frames its insurgency as a violent contest against the Nigerian state. This depiction agrees with the narrative put forth […]
The Nigerian Military has declared that it is in the final phase of wiping out terrorists from the North-East. The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, made this known on Thursday at the just concluded media tour to Gwoza and other operational areas in the North-East. “The tour is even beyond Gwoza and while […]
Amidst the euphoria of victory and a plethora of congratulatory messages pouring in from all over the world for the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, there is need to sound a note of warning from the onset. This is about the intention of the world, powers particularly the western world in our bourgeoning democracy. Going down […]
Boko Haram militants disguised as preachers killed at least 24 persons and wounded several others in an attack in Borno State, a military source and witness said on Monday. The attackers reportedly arrived in cars late on Sunday and gathered people at a mosque in the remote village of Kwajafa, pretending to preach Islam. They […]
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents have attacked the kwajeffa area of Borno state, burning down houses and brutally killing scores of people. The Islamic militants opened fire on villagers and raised down a large number of buildings. According to eyewitnesses, the insurgents came in large numbers of almost 2 dozens at dusk on […]
