Boko Haram

FG secures conviction of 125 Boko Haram terrorists, financiers

The Federal Government says it has secured the convictions of more than 125 Boko Haram militants and their financial backers at a two-day...

In Niger Republic, hundreds of inmates, including Boko Haram terrorists now on the loose

A violent uprising at the Koutoukalé prison in the neighboring Niger Republic, situated near the capital city of Niamey, has resulted in the...

Decade after, two abducted Chibok girls excited as they graduate from US varsities

More than a decade after their freedom from the clutches of the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists, Patience Bulus and Mercy Ali Paul have...

Terrorists ambush Yobe governor’s convoy, shoot six security men

Boko Haram terrorists have ambushed the convoy of Yobe Gov. Mai Mala Buni, injuring six security men attached to him. They launched the...

Clark blasts proponents of FG’s amnesty for Northern bandits, says comparing N’Delta ex-militants with bandits is myopic, criminal

Elder statesman and the leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has taken to the cleaners those canvassing that the...

In nine years, I was married off to three terrorist husbands, rescued Chibok girl, now mother of children laments

“We did not do it intentionally. I married three different men. There, I married another fighter at the village, and he died after...

Credible 2023 polls threatened by non-state armed groups, same-faith presidential candidacy, disinformation on social media – TBI

Violent activities of non-state armed groups including Boko Haram, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and bandit gangs, same-faith presidential candidacy and disinformation...

Help, Help!!! Terrorists taking over Kaduna State, Gov. el-Rufai urges Pres. Buhari’s intervention

Apparently beleaguered by rampaging terrorists, Kaduna State Government has cried out for help from the federal authorities to free the state from the...

Insecurity: Is Nigeria’s seat of power beleaguered?

Following the growing insecurity in the nation’s capital as well as other parts of the country, residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),...

Abuja-Kaduna train attack: Boko Haram/bandits collaboration — FG 

The Federal Government has disclosed that the recent attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train was a collaboration between bandits and the “dislodged” Boko Haram...

Insurgency, banditry by-products of shutting down civic space by the authorities, says Akaraiwe (SAN)

    A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Ikeazor Akaraiwe, says one of the root causes of insurgency and banditry is the shutting...

Joy Bishara, Chibok girl narrates how she escaped from Boko Haram terrorists

One of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls who escaped from his captors in Borno State, Joy Bishara,  recounted how she maneuvered her way to...

Nigeria Military free over 150 hostages

In one of the largest liberations of kidnap victims, at least 180 people, including babies, have been freed in Nigeria’s troubled north,  Zamfara...

Boko Haram sponsors: Naming sponsors now can affect investigations — Justice Minister

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh “Investigations about the suspects had reached an advanced stage and promised that the government would make a statement...

Social critic and ex-CBN Deputy Governor, Obadiah Mailafia, passes on

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

More than 350,000 people including children lost to Boko Haram/lSWAP insurgents in Nigeria’s Northeast — UNDP

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