Boko Haram
4 Aug 2023
The entry of the military into the politics and governance of Niger Republic is yet another negative development in the growth of democracy and people-centred rule in that country and the West African sub-region in general.
28 Jul 2023
The Nigerian Army said it apprehended a former soldier in Bauchi State on suspicion of supplying weapons to Boko Haram members. The Army joint task force in a report said its troops apprehended him in Boi, an area situated in the Bogoro Local Government Area (LGA). While the Army did not reveal the identity of…
20 Jul 2023
The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the Federal Government's application to protect the identities of witnesses set to testify against Tukur Mamu, a negotiator for Boko Haram terrorists. Mamu is facing ten counts of terrorism financing and other charges for his alleged involvement with terrorists linked to the 2022 attack on a Kaduna-Abuja…
14 Jul 2023
Eight Boko Haram fighters have surrendered to Nigerian troops.
3 Jul 2023
Security of lives and property has been accorded priority attention by governments of different countries of the world, be it democratic or military administration.
28 Jun 2023
Members of the Boko Haram sect, popularly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, have eliminated one of its leaders, Abou Hassana, over alleged plot to form faction.
13 Jun 2023
Concerned parents of Chibok Girls have written to President Bola Tinubu to help facilitate the release of 92 abducted girls still in Boko Haram's captivity since 2014. The parents congratulated Tinubu and Kashim Shettima on their assumption of office as president and vice president respectively.
13 Jun 2023
About 100 Boko Haram terrorists have been killed in coordinated military airstrikes in Mandara Mountain, Borno State.
12 Jun 2023
Even as June 12, 1993, being marked today as Democracy Day remains sacred in the annals of the country’s history as the day that birthed true democracy, the swearing in of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29, 2023 (30 years after) as Nigeria’s president...
4 Jun 2023
As Nigeria now has its 16th President sworn in on Monday, May 29, 2023, among what is expected to be tackled headlong by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the issue of insecurity.
28 May 2023
As we bid President Muhammadu Buhari and the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, a professor, goodbye till we meet again, it is fitting to ask the outgoing President an update on one not-so-popular but so-significant promise he didn’t fulfil to Nigerians and humanity: release of Ms Leah Sharibu The Guardian, Nigeria had in 2019 tagged her as ‘A goddess of resistance.’
22 May 2023
Stakeholders in the Civil Society space and the media have appealed to the incoming administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu to recover the remaining girls, including Leah Sharibu, who are still in captivity years after their abduction.