Many people were feared dead on Thursday in a fresh attack by Boko Haram Islamists in Ghumbili community in the Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa. The attack comes a few days after a similar incident in a neighbouring village in the Local Government, known as Mildu, where seven people were killed by the insurgents. […]
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Dani Mamman, chairman Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Maiduguri chapter, in an interview with BBC, disclosed that at least 70 lecturers have resigned from the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) since the Boko Haram insurgency started in 2009. He also said the university had employed lecturers to replace those who left. Apart from the lecturers […]
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The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has pulled its representatives out of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), a coalition of elders and leaders of the region. Jomo Gbomo, spokesman of MEND, who announced the withdrawal of his organisation in a statement, accused the leaders of the forum of being insincere. […]
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Boko Haram has released a new video, showing local bakery, insurgents on their farmlands, while others engaged in trading activities. The group vowed to sustain the battle with the country. In the 29-minute video believed to have been shot in Sambisa forest, the group showed its men going about their normal business. Items such as […]
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Not less than eight persons were confirmed dead and 15 others critically injured Friday evening after two teenage female suicide bombers attacked a residential area of Dikwa, 80 kilometres from Maiduguri, Borno State capital. News of the attack got to Maiduguri late Saturday afternoon as local government officials from the attacked community said they could […]
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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday held an emergency meeting with service chiefs, after which he ordered Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff and Sadique Abubakar, chief of air staff, to relocate to Maiduguri, with immediate effect. The acting president said there was a need for them to be at the military command control centre in […]
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The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has confirmed the death of four people after suicide bombers attacked two internally displaced persons, IDP camps in Maiduguri. Reports have it that the attacks on Dalori 1 and 2 IDP camps was carried out by four different suicide bombers between late Sunday and early Monday morning. In a […]
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Men of the Nigerian Police Force and suspected members of the Boko Haram sect engaged in fierce gun battle in Kano on Sunday morning. Premium Times reported that the police officers were members of a special task force set up by the inspector general of police. Five suspects, including two women suspected to be wives […]
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The Police Command in Borno said on Monday that a total of 12 persons were killed while 18 others sustained various degrees of injuries in multiple suicide bomb attacks in Maiduguri. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Damian Chukwu, made this known while confirming the attack at a news briefing in Maiduguri. Chukwu said that the […]
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The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said six Boko Haram suspects were killed after a gun batlle with soldiers along the shores of Lake Chad. The spokesperson of the 8 Task Force Division in Borno State, Timothy Antigha, said the six suspected terrorists were killed in two separate operations carried out by soldiers in the division […]
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