Security operatives and members of Civilian JTF volunteer group have intercepted a pregnant suicide bomber and another woman in Borno State. The two female suicide bombers were subdued when they refused to surrender and attempted to attack a security post. The incident occured in Ummarari village along mulai axis of Maiduguri Damboa road at the […]
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Nigerian and Cameroonian troops have cleared seven villages of Boko Haram terrorists in the border between the two countries in a two-day joint operation. The towns and villages, according to a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by Sani Usman, the Nigerian Army spokesperson, are: Siyara, Kote, Sigawa, Bulabundibe, Adeleke, Tchatike and Lamukura. Mr. Usman, […]
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The Nigerian Air Force has announced the successful destruction of a logistics base concealed by fleeing Boko Haram Terrorists in Sambisa forest. “Two fleeing terrorists were tracked by NAF Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft to the concealed location where they had gone to retrieve some items before fighter aircraft were called-in for strike,” Air […]
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The UN Security Council (UNSC) has described the insurgency crisis in the North-East Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin region as the world’s largest and most neglected humanitarian crisis the world has ever witnessed. Mr Mathew Rycroft, the President of the UNSC for March and Leader of the UN delegation to Nigeria, stated this at […]
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The UN Security Council says that the only solution to the Boko Haram terrorism in the Northeastern Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin is the economic development of the region. Matthew Rycroft, the leader of a UN Security Council delegation, said this while speaking with journalists shortly after a visit to Maiduguri. “We are convinced […]
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One Muktar Suleiman, a suspected member of the Boko Haram sect, who allegedly killed a policeman before escaping from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) in 2015, has been re-arrested. Suleiman was arraigned before a magistrates’ court in Lokoja, Kogi state capital, on Tuesday, and Levi Animoku, chief magistrate, ordered that he […]
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The Oslo Conference on Boko Haram humanitarian crisis realised $672 million in pledges from 14 donors, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said. The Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Mr Stephane Dujarric, at a press briefing on Friday, said Guterres welcomed the donors’ pledges. He […]
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At least 11 persons were killed as nine suicide bombers attacked Maiduguri, the Borno state capital on Thursday night, witnesses and security sources said. The Nine suicide bombers were among the dead. Multiple explosions echoed across the city at about 11 p.m. on Thursday as three female suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts near Muna […]
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The Borno Police Command said on Friday that a suspected suicide bomber detonated his explosive in the midst of 13 trucks along Maiduguri/ Mafa road leading to mass destruction. The Spokesman of the command, Mr Victor Isuku ,said this in a statement in Maiduguri. “On Thursday at about 23:18 hrs, a suicide bomber sneaked into […]
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Islamist terrorist in Nigeria, better known as Boko Haram fighters have killed seven Nigerian soldiers and wounded 19 more in an ambush on a road in the northeastern state of Borno, the military said on Friday. The ambush on the Ajiri-Dikwa road hit the troops as they were on a routine rotation on Thursday night, […]
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