Boko Haram

The Federal Government has disclosed that the recent attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train was a collaboration between bandits and the "dislodged" Boko Haram terrorists from the Northeast. The…

  A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Ikeazor Akaraiwe, says one of the root causes of insurgency and banditry is the shutting down of the civic space by the authorities in the…

One of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls who escaped from his captors in Borno State, Joy Bishara,  recounted how she maneuvered her way to freedom at a press conference in Washington, DC.…

In one of the largest liberations of kidnap victims, at least 180 people, including babies, have been freed in Nigeria's troubled north,  Zamfara police announced Thursday. Nigerian…

By Ajuma Edwina Ameh "Investigations about the suspects had reached an advanced stage and promised that the government would make a statement in that direction in due course"…

A social critic and former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia, has exited the world. Mailafia, who breathed his last at Gwagwalada Specialist…

At least, 350,000 people including children have been killed as at the end of 2020 in Northeast Nigeria by Islamist insurgents, according to the United Nations Development Programme…

A Muslim woman from NorthEast Nigeria who claimed to have witnessed persecution firsthand criticized the Nigerian government's response to the rampant violence impacting millions and told…

By Muhammadu Buhari, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria.  Today, leaders from across Africa meet in Paris to discuss plans to recover from the impact of a common…

The Federal Government has been told to expeditiously treat Fulani killer-herdsmen as terrorists in a bid to clear itself of any complicity and support. It has also warned that…

Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has raised an alarm that Boko Haram insurgents have regrouped at the Nasarawa/Benue border after they were dislodged from Toto council area of…

Months after ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and the former Kaduna State Governor, Lt.-Col Abubakar Umar, blasted President Muhammadu Buhari over nepotism, the Catholic Bishop of…

Kastina State Government has confirmed the release of the more than 300 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, who were abducted December 11 by Boko Haram…

Peeved with violent extremism and insurgency, the Sultan of Sokoto and Co-Chairman of National Council of Traditional Rulers, Sa’ad Abubakar, says they are fed up as insecurity is…

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says a decade-long probe has found enough evidence to merit opening a full-scale investigation into allegations of war crimes…

Unimpressed with President Muhammadu Buhari’s perceived inability to combat increasing scale of insecurity in the country, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has asked the president…