Tag: Boko Haram
Buhari summons service chiefs over killing of soldiers by Boko Haram
President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned Service Chiefs to an emergency security meeting over the reported killing of some Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram sect...
Boko Haram kills 100 soldiers in attack on Nigerian Army base
An attack by Boko Haram on a Nigerian Army base last Sunday led to as many as 100 soldiers being killed, Reuters has reported.
The...
Senate ‘shut down’ in honour of slain soldiers
The Senate on Thursday suspended legislative duties and adjourned sitting until Tuesday in honour of 44 soldiers killed by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno...
Leah Sharibu’s abductor killed – Nigerian Army
A leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), the Boko Haram faction that abducted Leah Sharibu and some 100 students in February,...
Residents flee as Boko Haram raids Borno villages
Hundreds of villagers fled their homes in Borno State late Saturday after an attack by the deadly Islamist militant sect, Boko Haram.
According to a...
Boko Haram kills 13 in fresh Borno attack
Boko Haram insurgents have killed 13 people and sacked two villages overnight in the restive town of Konduga in Borno, the News Agency of...
Soldiers fighting Boko Haram not begging for food – Lai Mohammed
The Federal Government has debunked an online media report that troops fighting Boko Haram in the northeast operate in deplorable conditions which have forced...
Leah Sharibu’s mother condoles Hauwa Liman’s family
Rebecca Sharibu, mother of Leah Sharibu, the only Dapchi girl still held by Boko Haram, has condoled with the family of Hauwa Liman recently...
Boko Haram kills two Borno farmers
The Nigerian Army on Saturday said two persons were killed by Boko Haram insurgents at Kuwa-Yangewa village on Maiduguri-Damboa Road in Borno.
Acting General Officer...
We did everything possible to save executed aid worker – Lai...
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Monday said the Federal Government did everything it could to save aid worker, Hauwa Liman, executed...