Boko Haram
2 May 2024
The 10th anniversary of the abduction of 276 schoolchildren from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria, has again brought an eerie feeling of despair and panic. The anniversary is a high point as it has again shown the entire security
2 May 2024
The fact that the Nigerian government was unable to intervene successfully in rescuing dozens of schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from Government Secondary, Chibok, in Borno State remains a big shame, 10 years after the gory incident.
29 Apr 2024
Six more Boko Haram fighters have surrendered to troops of Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in Monguno, Borno, in the last one week.
28 Apr 2024
The environment is unkempt, while living condition is not encouraging. Facilities in the camp are inadequate and overcrowded.
24 Apr 2024
Fierce rival clashes between Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorist groups escalated in the Lake Chad Basin in the last week, claiming over 100 of the fighters of both groups. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, from April 18 to April 24, 2024,…
24 Apr 2024
Boko Haram fighters ambushed and wounded five Nigerien soldiers who were protecting a key agricultural site near the Nigerian border, local authorities said Wednesday. The site is one of two in Niger's southeastern Diffa region created to boost rice and wheat production and generate more than 12,000 jobs, according to the agriculture ministry. Diffa governor…
19 Apr 2024
Adolphus Onyeama, an agriculture produce buyer resident in Borno State, has had several close shaves with death in the last 14 years. The Enugu State-born businessman has lived in the North for 26 years.
16 Apr 2024
Ten years ago today, 276 girls were abducted in the night from their school in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria.
16 Apr 2024
Elder statesman, Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, yesterday, advised President Bola Tinubu to set up a special military task force to rescue the remaining Chibok schoolgirls and others still in the captivity of Boko Haram insurgents.
14 Apr 2024
Today, April 14, 2024, is the 3639th day of the infamous abduction of Nigerian school girls. In one fell swoop, 276 of them, mostly Christian female, aged between 16 and 18, were kidnapped by the Boko Haram sect from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok
11 Apr 2024
Ten years after enduring raised hopes and dashed promises of seeing their loved ones return, parents of the 91 remaining girls of the 2014 Chibok school abduction in Borno State have written to the wife of the President, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, seeking her intervention.
4 Apr 2024
The glass appears to have overflowed for Nigeria’s out-of-school children, with all thirty-six states and the Federal Capital Territory all featuring prominent on an index of states with out-of-school children.