The presidency today explained its directive concerning the release of persons being held in connection with the Boko Haram sect, the first batch of which it stressed would be women and children. “This will be followed by other phased releases where cases will be treated on their individual merits by the Defence authorities and security agencies,”...
The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 1 Division Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Major-General Garba Wahab, at the weekend said the media should not eulogize criminals as the Division has arrested a suspected orange seller who spied for terrorists and over N600 million was found in his bank account within three months. The GOC, whose area of command covers the...
KANO (AFP) – Nigeria’s military on Friday attacked Boko Haram Islamist strongholds across the northeast, launching deadly air strikes on insurgent camps, the military said, while residents reported that forces had deployed in border areas to block the militants from fleeing. Several thousand soldiers have spread across three northeastern states where...
Three soldiers and at least 10 Boko Haram militants were killed in an overnight battle in Daura, Katsina State. Daura is the home town of former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd). A military source at Nigerian Army headquarters in Abuja, speaking to SaharaReporters from Daura, said that the Nigerian troops recovered from the fleeing sect members sophisticated weapons as well...
The share volume of ammunition available to Boko Haram now forces most analyst to conclude that Nigeria is engaged in a full scale war of survival. Extremist attack casualties are expected to rise as fighters now have access to sophisticated weaponry. While Nigeria’s military has fought in the past decade with heavily armed militants and criminal...
Military sources have told SaharaReporters that Tuesday’s unprecedented onslaught on Bama by suspected Boko Haram terrorists resulted in the death of two soldiers and 13 of the invaders during the fight at the military barracks. At the police barracks, a woman and two children were burnt to death, our sources said. They also confirmed that 22 policemen were shot dead by the terrorists at the Divisional Police Station, and 14 prison officials killed at Bama Prison Station. “The attack was repelled by...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) “Operation Restore Order” in Maiduguri says it has killed or arrested almost all the suspects involved in last year’s assassination of elder statesman, Major General Mohammadu Shuwa (Rtd). The former soldier was shot dead by gunmen in front of his house in Gwange area of Maiduguri on 12 November, 2012. In a statement today, JTF spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel...
Two Islamic clerics and two other residents of Ngamdu, a border town between Borno and Yobe States, were killed, weekend, by unidentified gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members during an attack on the town. Ngamdu is located 100 kilometres, west of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on the road to Damaturu, the Yobe State capital. The gunmen were...
KANO (AFP) – A group of gunmen Sunday stormed a village in Adamawa on the border with Cameroon killing 10 residents in attacks on a church and a market, police said. The gunmen opened fire on a market square in Njilang village in Adamawa state, killing six people before storming a local church in the same village where they killed four worshippers, Mohammed Ibrahim, the state police spokesman, told AFP. “Unknown gunmen went into the village this morning and attacked a market square where they killed six people and then...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has advised Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria to sheath their swords. He gave the advice when Nigeria’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Dauda Danladi presented his letters of credence in Kabul, the Afghan capital recently. He called on the Boko Haram members to lay down their arms if they are true Muslims and embrace amnesty offered...
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