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Operatives of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe State yesterday stormed a bomb-making factory in Damaturu and recovered arms and ammunitions. Spokesman of the JTF, Lieutenant Lazarus Eli, said an early morning cordon and search operation was carried out at Buhari Estate along Gashua road which led to the discovery. He added that a decomposing body was also...

Kano (AFP) – Officials have slapped a round-the-clock curfew on a restive state as security forces hunt for members of a radical Islamist group, the military said Sunday. The ban on movements in the northeastern state of Yobe was imposed late Saturday, hours before a suicide bomber killed a woman and a child in attack outside a church in neighbouring Bauchi...

KANO – (AFP) – Gunfire and explosions rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Saturday as security forces launched a pre-emptive offensive against Boko Haram Islamists. The offensive followed intelligence that the extremist group planned to attack the city again, said the deputy police spokesman of Yobe state, of which Damaturu is the capital. “Security...

Gunmen, suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect, shot dead five people in their homes in Maiduguri and Damaturu on Monday, security forces said. “Two people have been shot dead today by Boko Haram in Maiduguri,” the operations officer for the remote northeastern city, Victor Ebheleme, told Reuters. “The area in which the attack...

The Joint Task Force set up to quell the Boko Haram menace rocking the Northern part of the country, in the early hours of yesterday, launched a successful operation on the sects operational stronghold in Damaturu, Yobe state, killing 59 of  the sect members and destroying their armoury, Chief of army staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika said Friday. Speaking...