Boko Haram

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...

Nasarawa State now under Boko Haram siege, says governor

  Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has raised an alarm that Boko Haram insurgents have regrouped at the Nasarawa/Benue border after they...

Again, Buhari’s nepotism draws flack from reverred Christian cleric, Kukah

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

Abducted Kastina school boys released, says government spokesman

  Kastina State Government has confirmed the release of the more than 300 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, who were abducted...

Insurgency, Banditry in Nigeria: We are fed up, says Sultan

  Peeved with violent extremism and insurgency, the Sultan of Sokoto and Co-Chairman of National Council of Traditional Rulers, Sa’ad Abubakar, says they...

ICC prosecutor set to open Nigeria war crimes investigation

  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...

Parlous security situation: Northern Elders call for Pres. Buhari’s head

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