The Presidency has dismissed reports by some aid agencies that a good number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria might die due to mass starvation. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, dismissed the reports in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has called on troops serving in the north-east to immediately embark on the final aggressive action and comprehensive sweep of the operational theatre to end the operation against the Boko Haram insurgents on a very high note. Mr. Buratai made the call in a message to the troops […]
Continue ReadingAt least six soldiers have been wounded while about thirty terrorists were killed in a failed ambush by fighters of Boko Haram sect on Saturday, November 26. It was gathered that a group of Boko Haram militants – numbering up to 40 – opened fire on the soldiers of the 121 Task Force Battalion who escorted […]
Continue ReadingThe Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that Boko Haram insurgency and rising inflation have left more than five million people in northeast Nigeria facing acute food insecurity. The UN agriculture agency has appealed for 25 million dollars through May 2017 to support irrigated vegetable production and micro-gardening in the dry season, as well […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Air Force fighter jets have attacked a number of Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) locations in Northern Borno, killing several insurgents. On 16 November 2016, an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft reported a gathering of BHTs under a tree at Kadari. An Alpha Jet on armed reconnaissance was called in to strafe the […]
Continue ReadingThe Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, says troops of 8 Task Force Division Nigerian Army on a fighting patrol along Monguno-Brimari road, Borno State, on Thursday, intercepted a group of Boko Haram terorists suspected to be on a mission to loot logistics supplies in surrounding villages. On sighting the patrol, […]
Continue ReadingTroops on patrol have arrested two suspected terrorists in Borno on Sunday who supplied Boko Haram with drugs, logistics and fuel. In a statement on Sunday, the Army Spokesman, Col. Sani Usman, named the drugs’ supplier as Kadiri Umate, 35 and the fuel supplier as Fantoma Lasani. He said that Umate was nabbed at Firgi […]
Continue ReadingThe UN has negotiated the release of nearly 900 children detained by the Nigerian Army after they retook land from Boko Haram militants, a senior official said. The 876 children had been held in the barracks in Maiduguri, UNICEF’s Regional Director for Western and Central Africa, Manuel Fontaine, said after visiting the north-eastern city. It […]
Continue ReadingSuspected suicide bombers have detonated bombs along Maiduguri – Damboa road in the fringes of the metropolis. The second explosion occurred close to an Internally Displaced persons (IDPs) camp. A witness said “Bomb blast in Bakassi IDP Camp of Maiduguri and the second bomb blast at NNPC Depot Damboa Road.” As the security and response […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Army on Wednesday, disclosed that a sizeable number of the 39 soldiers declared missing after last week Boko Haram insurgents’ attack in the border town of Gashigar in Borno, had returned. Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, the Theater Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, stated this while briefing newsmen in Maiduguri. “It is true that about […]
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