Nigeria Army authritities have confirmed Amnesty international report that several people were killed early this week in Rann, Borno State. Amnesty international has reported that about Sixty people were killed in Monday’s attack on Rann by Boko Haram. The agency said analysis from satellite images revealed the figure, just as it feared that […]
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Boko Haram has killed 44 soldiers and nine farmers in three days of attacks on some villages in Borno State, AFP has reported. According to the report, which quoted security sources, the Islamic State West Africa Province, a Boko Haram splinter group, killed at least 44 soldiers in attacks on three military bases at the weekend. It […]
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Eight people have been confirmed dead by the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, after suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked four villages in the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The attack was reported to have occurred during the late hours of Wednesday at Bulabirin, Gworzari, Kofa and Ngomari Kiriri communities along Bama to Maiduguri highway. NEMA, while […]
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They survived Boko Haram. Now many of them are on the brink of starvation. Across the northeastern corner of this country, more than 3 million people displaced and isolated by the militants are facing one of the world’s biggest humanitarian disasters. Every day, more children are dying because there isn’t enough food. Curable illnesses are […]
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About eight people were killed and several others wounded when a car laden with explosives hit a taxi in northeastern Borno state’s capital of Maiduguri, birthplace of a seven-year-old Islamist insurgency, military and medical sources said. Five people were inside the taxi in a convoy to Gamboru, a town near the Cameroon border, police said […]
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It is painful to note that the media really doesn’t report major dastardly acts of terrorism in the Northeast of Borno State. What you read and hear from the media are stop target and casualty news. I was in Borno state last December and last month respectively, and my eyewitness report saw the outright sacking […]
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At least 56 people were killed in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a refugee camp, officials have revealed. Reuters’ sources put the deathtoll at over 60 people. The tragedy at the Dikwa refugee camp was only disclosed Wednesday because of a “disrpupted telephone line”. At least 78 […]
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The Senator representing Borno Central, Baba Kaka Garbai has said that the story that the insurgents have been degraded is nothing but a lie as the terror group still hold on strong to about 50 percent of troubled Borno State. Garbai who spoke to journalists on Saturday evening during a condolence visit to Dalori village […]
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Fresh reports have now indicated that a total of 81 people were killed in Borno State on Sunday, 54 in Maiduguri and 27 at a checkpoint in a market in Monguno, 135 kilometres away. The latter bombing has been largely unreported. It was caused by a suicide bomber, two hours after the multiple attacks on […]
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Borno State governor and Chairman, Northern State Governors’ Forum (NSGF), Alhaji Kashim Shettima yesterday lamented the perennial insecurity crisis, occasioned by bloody activities of Boko Haram as well as the rising social vices in northern Nigeria. He said that the region as a theatre of war, terrorism and poverty, is obviously dragging the entire country […]
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