The Joint Task Force Operation’s (JTF) in Borno State today warned the public about the existence of a special kidnapping squad set up by the Boko Haram sect to engage in kidnapping. In a statement by its spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, JTF said that its security measures have made it difficult or impossible for the terrorists and other criminals...
Residents of Ringim township in Jigawa State said they have experienced intense gun fight between suspected members of Boko Haram and Nigerian troops after some 30 bombs were exploded by militants that invaded the town. A security source told SaharaReporters that several militants invaded the township with bombs and rocket propelled grenades. The attack...
Borno State is Nigeria’s self- acclaimed ‘Home of Peace’. That is the appellation. But you may not be wrong if you now describe it as ‘The Home of Ruins and Pieces’. The truth about the state is that it has become a theatre of a war unleashed by the Islamist group called Boko Haram. Insurgency has been the order of the day in the state,...
The notorious Boko Haram operative, Mohammed Chad, was yesterday evening killed in a gun battle with JTF. The fight occurred at Ruwan-Zafi area of Maiduguri metropolis when the officers of the JTF’s Operation Restore Order and operatives of the State Security Service confronted Boko Haram fighters. Mohammed has been on the top list of the most wanted...
Governors of the nineteen northern states in Nigeria under the aegis of Northern States Governors Forum, NSGF, said all of them are in trouble following the endemic insecurity that has bedeviled the region since 2009. The governors spoke on Thursday in Abuja during the submission of a report by the committee on reconciliation, healing and security, which was formed by the Forum on July 26, 2012. First to make the ‘trouble’ declaration was the governor of Bauchi State who said “we governors are in trouble, because we took...
Boko Haram was paid an equivalent of around $3.15 million by French and Cameroonian negotiators before freeing seven French hostages this month, a confidential Nigerian government report obtained by Reuters said. The memo does not say who paid the ransom for the family of seven, who were all released on April 19, although it says Cameroon freed some Boko...
The entire township of Baga, a border town in Borno state, was razed down at the weekend as a Nigeria-led multinational force and suspected members of Boko Haram engaged in a shootout that left no fewer than 185 persons dead, according to government officials. The level of destruction and loss of lives, according to a source, remains one of the most unprecedented...
The Presidency has described former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), as the major sponsor of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram and a leading protagonist of violence. It said that apart from his ambition to rule the country again, Buhari had refused to contribute meaningfully...
Northern-based human rights activists and President of the Civil Rights Congress, Mallam Shehu Sani said on Monday in Kaduna that the Federal Government can not use monetary inducement to solve the Boko Haram insurgency in some parts of the north. Sani explained that the issue of amnesty for members of the sect can not work the way of the Niger Delta militants...
Monguno Local Government Area of Borno State is about putting behind it the recent killing of six secondary school teachers, including a principal, the local government was again plunged into mourning as many students were, on Saturday, murdered in cold blood by some gunmen suspected to be members of the Jama’atul Ahlis Sunnah Lid’ Awati, also known...
