Nigeria’s military said Thursday that it was ready to launch air strikes against Boko Haram Islamists as several thousand troops moved to the remote northeast to...
President Goodluck Jonathan : declaration of emergency Full text of PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR DECLARATION OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN BORNO, YOBE AND ADAMAWA...
The purported head of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed two recent deadly attacks in the northeast in a video obtained by AFP Monday, which...
A presidential panel set to seek an amnesty deal with Islamist group Boko Haram Thursday met with about 40 suspected members of the sect being held...
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Trial of suspected mastermind of the December 2011 bombing of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Mr. Kabiru Umar, also known as Kabiru Sokoto...
21 February 2013: Nigerian government begins official search for a French family taken hostage on 19 February in Cameroon near the Nigerian border. Suicide blast targeting...
t was bloody yesterday in Bama, a town 75 kilometres from Maiduguri, the beleaguered capital of Borno State. -Dead: 22 policemen, 14 prison officials, 13 insurgents,...
Nigeria’s Boko Haram gunmen Tuesday launched coordinated attacks on military barracks, a prison and police stations in the northeastern town of Bama, killing 55 people and...
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has advised Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria to sheath their sword. He gave the advice when Nigeria’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Dauda Danladi...
• Family pleads for access to his drugs • Northern govs demand his release • Insurgents await ransom, assure on ex-minister’s safety Elder statesman and...
The security challenge in Borno State assumed a bizarre dimension yesterday with the seizure of 92-year-old elder statesman, Shettima Ali Monguno, by four gunmen suspected to...
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