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    U.S. Announces $102 Million Humanitarian Assistance to Nigeria – Channels Television

    United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, has announced the sum of $102 million in humanitarian assistance to Nigeria. The funds will be administered primarily through the U.S. Agency for... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2JsIAri Get More Nigeria Metro News
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    Atiku Vows To Probe Jonathan And Buhari If He Becomes President In 2019 – Stella Dimoko News

    Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has said he will probe the past administrations that failed to curtail the Boko Haram insurgency, if he wins the 2019 presidential election. The sect came into prominence during President Goodluck Jonathan’s tenure and the incumbent, President Muhammadu...
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    Shekau's Health Is In Bad Shape, He Shouldn't Be Taken Serious - Army – AllAfrica News: Nigeria

    The Nigerian Military has claimed that the main leader of Boko Haram terrorists set, Abubakar Shekau, is in a terrible state of health,and so does not constitute a threat to its ongoing fight against the insurgents anymore. It described Shekau as a “spent horse, waiting for his Waterloo.” The...
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    Metro See The Emotional Letter A Soldier In The War Front Wrote To His Beautiful Wife

    A Nigerian military officer, John Oden,has penned a touching letter to his beautiful wife on social media. In his Facebook post, the man who prayed that his wife would never become a young widow noted that he knows his wife would not want to live the rest of her life without him because he...
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    Metro Army Inflict Heavy Damage On Boko Haram As Insurgents Flee, Abandon Weapons [SEE PHOTOS]

    Below is a statement from the Nigerian army; "In continuation of Operation DEEP PUNCH 2, designed to smoke out Boko Haram terrorists inhabiting remote islands in Lake Chad basin lying within Nigerian territory, troops of 8 Division, Nigerian Army, on Operation LAFIYA DOLE, supported by soldiers...
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    Politics Osinbajo Reacts To Criticism Over $1 Billion Insurgency Fund

    Vice President Yemi Osinbao has reacted to criticisms trailing the $1bn approved by the Nigerian Governors Forum for the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency. The vice president said the NGF approved the fund for national security after a national security summit organised by the National...
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    Defence Minister Mansur Dan-Ali Reacts To The $1bn Fund Approved To Fight Boko Haram - Daily Post

    Defence Minister, Mansur Dan-Ali has said the one billion dollars approved by the National Executive Council (NEC) for the war against Boko Haram was needed to finally terminate the sect. According to him, NEC’s approval was in line with decisions reached at the conference of Ministers of...
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    Metro Boko Haram Attack Bornu Village, Kill 3 Persons

    Boko Haram insurgents have killed three people and set fire to scores of homes in a raid targeting vulnerable rural communities in northeast Nigeria on Thursday, Daily Post reports Modu Ganamani, Information Officer for the Guzamala Local Government Area in Northern Borno state, said the...
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    Metro Cameroon Deports 100,000 Nigerians

    The Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organisation, has claimed that 100,000 Nigerians have bben deported by the Cameroonian government. The Human Rights Watch (HRW), which made this known, yesterday, said the deportation defied a plea by the United Nations (UN) refugee agency not to...
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    Metro VIDEO: Nnamdi Kanu Caught On Tape Preaching ‘One Nigeria’ During GEJ's Tenure

    A few years ago, before Nnamdi Kanu started championing the breakaway of the south-east region, before the clamour for Biafra became his sole agenda, he was an advocate of a united Nigeria. At the time, Goodluck Jonathan was the president of Nigeria and Kanu was based in London, UK. In this...
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    Metro How 5 Female Suicide Bombers Killed 12 in Borno

    Five female suicide bombers killed 12 people and wounded 11 in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, birthplace of the Islamist militant Boko Haram insurgency, police said on Monday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks. But the use of female suicide bombers in public...
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    World Suspected Boko Haram Terrorists Attack Cameroon, Kill 9

    At least nine people have been killed and 30 injured in a twin suicide bombing in northern Cameroon on Friday (2 June). The suicide bombers detonated explosive devices near a camp hosting people displaced by an ongoing insurgency at then hands of Nigeria-based Boko Haram terrorists. Early...
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    Politics Obasanjo Visits North-east, Seeks Humanitarian Help For Boko Haram Victims

    Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on the international community to help tackle the humanitarian crisis in the North East ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency. Obasanjo made the appeal at the donation of 35,930 kilograms of seeds by the International Institute of Tropical...
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    Politics What Abba Kyari Discussed With Service Chiefs Yesterday

    The Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari, on Friday met behind closed-doors with service chiefs over the Boko Haram insurgency. In attendance were the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Abayomi Olonisakin and the Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, who were...
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    Politics President Buhari Orders Immediate Investigations Into IDP Abuse Report

    President Muhammadu Buhari is worried and shocked by the recently released Human Rights Watch (HRW) report which alleges sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls in IDP camps of those displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency and has ordered immediate investigations. Senior Special...
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    Politics Osinbajo Reveals How Jonathan Caused Spread of Boko Haram

    Nigeria's Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has revealed how the administration of Goodluck Jonathan strengthened the spread of Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East. Prof. Osinbajo said the immediate past government failed to provide equipment and supplies to the military for the...
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    Politics Royal Fathers Should Put Their Advice In Writing – Buhari tells Alaafin

    President Muhammadu Buhari has asked traditional rulers in Nigeria to put their advice in writing so that he can relate it to the problems facing the country. The president said this while receiving Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday...
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    Metro Measles Outbreak Kill 6 Children in Borno IDP Camp

    At least six children have died from an outbreak of measles at the ATC Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The outbreak of the disease, which has been attributed to congestion at the camp, also affected 22 persons. It was learnt that the camp had...
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