The Nigerian Air Force says its Special Forces in conjunction with some Nigerian Army troops, successfully foiled a suicide bomb attack by Boko Haram terrorists at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Borno State, on Sunday night. AVM Olatokunbo Adesanya, NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, confirmed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. […]
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Freed lecturers of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), who were in Boko Haram captivity for about eight months, have expressed their willingness to resume oil exploration in the Chad Basin. The exploration was interrupted by Boko Haram insurgents, who killed one of the lecturers. Now free, the surviving lecturers said they are ready to go […]
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Three lecturers of the University of Maiduguri who were ambushed by Boko Haram insurgents on July 25, 2017, had a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday. Among the president’s guests were women abducted from a funeral procession by Boko Haram. While announcing his joy at receiving the newly freed Boko Haram abductees, the President […]
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Soldiers on duty around the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) have gunned down a suicide bomber, averting what would have been a tragic suicide attack. The suicide bomber, strapped with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) made his entrance through the University Printing Press but was sighted and taken out by the soldiers leading to the explosion of […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on the release, through negotiations, of three University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) lecturers abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Magumeri, Borno. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, made this known in a statement in Abuja on […]
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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 Boko Haram terrorists have released a picture of the staff of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) who were captured in Magumeri local government area of Borno state. The victims were attacked while returning from an oil exploration trip to the Lake Chad Basin. Five of their colleagues were killed alongside staff of the Nigerian […]
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Self-acclaimed leader of the Boko Haram Sect, Abubakar Shekau, has taken responsibility for the bomb blasts that occurred at the University of Maiduguri, Borno state, in the early hours of Monday. It was reported on Monday that suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked a mosque and another location within the university. The blasts killed four people […]
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