Boko Haram

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...

‘Babies were ripped from wombs’: Boko Haram survivor testifies before U.S Commission

A Muslim woman from NorthEast Nigeria who claimed to have witnessed persecution firsthand criticized the Nigerian government’s response to the rampant violence impacting...

Post-Covid 19 Pandemic, Nigeria and France Must Seize the Chance to Strengthen Military and Economic Ties By Muhammadu Buhari

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

Fulani herdsmen on a farmland

Probe terrorist activities diguised as farmers/herders conflict, ECWA tells Buhari

  The Federal Government has been told to expeditiously treat Fulani killer-herdsmen as terrorists in a bid to clear itself of any complicity...