Boko Haram
25 Jul 2024
An IDP camp is a temporary settlement created to house internally displaced persons who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence, conflict, natural disasters, or other crises. In 2014, at just 11 years old, Saadatu was displaced from her hometown of Gwoza in Borno State, Nigeria. The once peaceful town turned into…
13 Jun 2024
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have kidnapped four passengers along the Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway in Borno. The abduction followed an attack on Tuesday evening near Auno Village, 25 kilometres away from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
10 Jun 2024
The Defence Headquarters has challenged Amnesty International (AI) to substantiate the allegations levelled against the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) in its recent report. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made the call in a statement reacting to the allegations on Monday in Abuja. AI had accused soldiers and members of the…
2 Jun 2024
Locals said the four were visiting Diffa, a region that has endured a series of fatal attacks since 2015 by fighters from Boko Haram and the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP).
2 Jun 2024
One Boko Haram member, Bayanze Mustapha, fleeing from the massive incursion of troops into the Sambisa Forest, has surrendered himself to the troops of the 2 Armored Brigade, Bama. It was gathered that Bayanze was among the terrorists who fled the forest due to the fear of battlefield elimination after dozens of their camps were…
26 May 2024
Boko Haram commander and five other terrorists have surrendered to Sector 3 of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in Monguno, Borno State. Adamu Muhammad, a commander, surrendered to the army along with five other terrorists
24 May 2024
On the floor of the Senate, Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe collaborated Ningi’s claim, “We are all culpable. Some so-called senior senators here got
20 May 2024
Bandits, yesterday, invaded Dakwa, DeiDei area, a suburb along the Zuba/Suleja road in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and kidnapped four persons and left many others injured.
19 May 2024
I had wanted to write on some of our so many and-so-what matters arising from our national greed that has refused to collapse.
16 May 2024
No fewer than 47 individuals associated with Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) surrendered to troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) Sector 3, Nigeria, on Thursday. Lieutenant Colonel Abubakar Abdullahi, Chief Military Public Information Officer in N'djamena, Chad, made the announcement in a statement issued in Maiduguri, Nigeria.…
12 May 2024
interrogating Shehu’s Boko Haram, other security challenges in Nigeria
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A group of suspected repentant Boko Haram insurgents, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, stormed the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Nigeria Customs Service checkpoints at Kasuwan Fara, a suburb of Maiduguri metropolis, chasing away the personnel on duty and setting ablaze all shelters at the checkpoints. The incident, according to Zagazola Makama,…
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