boko haram insurgents

UNABLE to weather sustained attacks from the military against their activities, the Boko Haram insurgents have resorted to guerilla tactics and targeting Christians to cause confusion and chaos in the country, the Commander 7th Division of Nigeria Army in Maiduguri, Brig … Read more via...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana (SAN) revealed the source of the Boko Haram sect’s arms. Falana said arms and ammunition used by the terrorist sect were looted from the armory in Libya. He also blamed the slave trade in Libya to the fallout from the removal and brutal killing of...

Three soldiers were killed. six other injured by Boko Haram insurgents in Magumeri town, Borno State over the weekend. Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 8 Task Force Division, Col. Timothy Antigha, stated this on Sunday. Antigha said the soldiers died while repelling insurgent’s attack...

Four suicide bombers have been reportedly killed in a failed attempt to wreak havoc in the Bornu State capital, Maiuguri yesterday night according to Sahara Reporters The bombers, who are suspected Boko Haram members, were all female They stormed Ummarari general area on the outskirts of...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has begun investigation into how over N300 million allegedly taken by each of 33 ex-local government caretaker chairmen was spent to secure Oyo State against incursion by Boko Haram insurgents during the 2015 general elections. The investigation...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it has struck the insurgents’ buildings in Borno. The Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, Air Commodore, Olatokunbo Adesanya, announced this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Olatokunbo said it was in furtherance of the recently...

The 82 Chibok girls who were released by Boko Haram insurgents in a swap deal few weeks ago have reunited with the 21 girls set free in October 2016 by the terrorists. The reunion took place today in Abuja where the girls have been kept by the government since their release. Boko Haram...

Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farooq has endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari for second term for restoring peace back to the North East region of the country. The Emir made this disclosure on Tuesday while receiving the Federal Commissioner of National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and...

The Presidential Committee on North-East Initiative, PINE, again, budgeted 60 million Naira to cut grasses in the 2017 budget in communities ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgents. Members of the House of Representatives expressed shock, on Tuesday, that the Presidency can budgeted huge amount...

The Nigerian military on Wednesday said it had commenced the construction of roads into the Sambisa and Alagarno havens of the Boko Haram insurgents. The military also revealed that over 80 per cent of the Sambisa Forest had been captured from the insurgents as it insisted that the...

President Muhammadu Buhari at a bilateral meeting with President Jacob Zuma of South Africa in New York said suicide bombing is becoming rare, as the local people are themselves rejecting indoctrination by the Boko Haram insurgents. According to a statement released by his special adviser...

United States Secretary of State, John Kerry met with 5 northern state governors at the Statehouse, yesterday, shortly after his closed-door session with President Muhammadu Buhari. Here are five important issues discussed at the meeting: - Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima told John Kerry...

Last year, Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists offered to free more than 200 young women and girls abducted on April 14, 2014, from their dormitory at Government Girls’ Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State in exchange for the release of militant leaders held by the government. According to...