News

10 suspected jihadists killed in gun battle

Ihesiulo Grace 14 August 2023 0

It has been confirmed that six Niger Republic soldiers and 10 suspected jihadists were killed during a gun battle on Sunday, August 13. Politics Nigeria gathered that the suspected jihadists on motorbikes ambushed the Nigerien troops in Sanam, a region in Niger where attacks have been frequent.

News

ISIS sneaking jihadists into Nigeria from Syria

Ihesiulo Grace 19 June 2018 0

Leaders of terrorist group, Islamic State, are sneaking battle-hardened jihadis from Syria into Nigeria to train terrorists for possible attacks in Britain. There were fears that strong links between Nigeria and the UK would make it easier for IS to send its killers to Britain to orchestrate terror attacks, death and destruction. It noted that […]

News Nigeria

Suicide blasts in Borno kill at least 31

Ihesiulo Grace 17 June 2018 0

Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed at least 31 people in a twin suicide bomb attack on a town in northeast Nigeria, a local official and militia leader told AFP on Sunday. Two blasts ripped through the town of Damboa in Borno state on Saturday evening targeting people returning from celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday, in […]

Africa

Suspected jihadists kill seven in northern Mozambique –Police

Ihesiulo Grace 6 June 2018 0

Suspected jihadists hacked seven people to death with machetes and torched dozens of homes early Tuesday in northern Mozambique, police said. The region, Cabo Delgado province which is expected to become the centre of the country’s nascent natural gas industry after several promising discoveries, has seen a number of deadly assaults on both security forces […]

World

Russian jet pilot ‘pulled grenade pin’ to avoid capture in Syria

Ihesiulo Grace 5 February 2018 0

Russian media have lauded a pilot killed in Syria as a hero, saying he detonated his grenade to avoid being captured by jihadists who had shot his plane out of the sky. Roman Filipov’s reported last words were: “Here’s for the guys.” His Sukhoi-25 ground-attack aircraft was shot down over rebel-held Idlib province. He survived […]

World

ISIS completely driven out of Raqqa by US-backed forces

Ihesiulo Grace 17 October 2017 0

The city of Raqqa has been liberated from Islamic State militants, a spokesman for a US-backed Syrian force has said. Soldiers raised a flag inside Raqqa stadium as a four-month battle to take Islamic State’s Syrian capital came to an end. A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the jihadi militant group […]

Opinion

What Exactly Do Jihadists Want?

Ihesiulo Grace 11 April 2015 0

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 […]