The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai has said. aside the conventional Boko Haram war, troops are fighting criminality in the Northeast, The COAS said the army was contending with forces that sabotage the war against insurgents, describing such forces as collaborators, informants and saboteurs. Gen. Buratai, who was reacting to […]
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Female suicide bombers kill 32, injure 84 in DamboaAbout 32 persons were killed, while 84 others were injured when six suicide bombers detonated Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), in Damboa local government area in Borno state late on Saturday. Buba Shettima, a witness said that two separate bomb blasts occurred in Shuwari and Abbachari, at about […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has restated his government’s willingness to negotiate with the terrorists to free the Chibok girls. Speaking a few days after the families of the over 200 girls, kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Borno State in 2014, asked him to resign if he could not secure their release, the president also indicated […]
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The United States Government has listed 20 of Nigerian states as unsafe and asked its citizens living in the country to stay away from them. The government cited Borno, Adamawa and Yobe as a complete no-go area saying “the ability of the US Mission to provide assistance to US citizens” in those states remains severely […]
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Several Nigerian soldiers are missing after an ambush by Boko Haram insurgents in a community in Borno State, the army has said. The army said it was battling to save the lives of 19 other soldiers injured during the clash on Thursday. Operatives of the Civilian-JTF, embedded with the military squad, were also badly injured […]
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In September 2014, a 19-year-old woman whom I will call Aisha was celebrating a friend’s wedding in a small village in north-eastern Nigeria when Boko Haram attacked. The fighters killed the groom and many of the male guests. They abducted Aisha, along with other women, including her sister and the bride. They were taken to […]
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About 20,000 people have been killed since the start of the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State, according to a report from the World Bank that also put the cost of destruction at $5.9 billion. The report laid bare the extent of the damage since the insurgency began in 2009 and which at one point […]
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At least 15 people have been killed and two Boko Haram terrorists arrested in fresh attack on a village in Borno state yesterday. The terrorists reportedly stormed the remote village of Mussa in Askira/Uba local government area (LGA) of Borno state at about 8pm last night. According to Sahara Reporters, local witness said the terrorists started throwing explosives […]
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Two deadly explosions on Thursday hit Maiduguri town as a suspected suicide bomber targeted a mosque in a suburb called Mulai leaving over 50 persons dead The sound of the explosions echoed over the Borno state capital at about 6:20pm. A senior official of the Civilian JTF, said the two blasts happened near a mosque […]
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Boko Haram terrorist leader, Abubakar Shekau has dismissed any talk of success by the Nigeria army as “lies” reports AFP, just as military on Saturday claimed further gains in its counter-offensive against Boko Haram. Army spokesman Sani Usman said troops destroyed more rebel enclaves and camps in the restive state of Borno, which has been […]
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