Several Borno State residents fled their homes Wednesday evening following an attack by Boko Haram at Jiddari-Polo area, near Maiduguri, the state capital, Daily Post reports. Videos captured by eyewitnesses on social media show people of different ages trekking and driving inward the city centre, away from the violence. The fresh battle occurred a few…
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On Wednesday, a large crowd of Borno residents expressed their dissatisfaction with the upsurge in Boko Haram attacks in the state by booing the President Muhammadu Buhari during his condolence visit. A circulating video captured the President and his convo as they drove from the Maiduguri International Airport to the centre of the cit were the North-Eastern…
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According to circulating reports, suspected Boko Haram insurgents in gun trucks have attacked Auno, a village near Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, killing over 10 people and destroying 18 vehicles. This was confirmed by the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Olusegun Adeniyi, who spoke to journalists at the headquarters operation Lafiya Dole Maiduguri…
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President Muhammad Buhari has inducted three attack helicopters, two Augusta 109Ps and one Mi-171E to enhance the war against the Boko Haram insurgency. According to Ripples Nigeria, the President during the introduction on Thursday in Abuja, also vowed that the Federal Government would do everything to tackle insecurity. President Buhari further promised that the government…
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Troops of the Nigerian Army have arrested a bus driver and seven passengers who are illegal immigrants and believed to be working for the Islamic State West Africa Province and the Boko Haram fighters along Yola Road in Borno State. The eight suspects were rounded up by troops of 331 Artillery Regiment deployed at a…
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The Presidency has reacted to reports that Leah Sharibu, one of the Dapchi schoolgirls abducted last year has been killed. Grace Taku, an aid worker with Non-Governmental Organisation, Action Against Hunger, who was kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists on July 18, had claimed in a “proof of life video” that Leah alongside one Alice had…
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At least 30 people have been reportedly killed in Borno, Northeast, Nigeria, following a triple suicide attack that was carried out by unknown suicide bombers, the biggest mass killing the country has witnessed this year. Although no terrorist organisation is yet to claim the attack, the Boko Haram group and its Islamic State splinter group…
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has demanded that the former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo issue a public apology over his comments imputing ethno-religious motive to Boko Haram and ISWAP. Also, the Government asked him to withdraw the statement it described as deeply offensive and patently divisive. It said such indiscreet comments are far below…
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The Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has stated that the threat by the Boko Haram sect is real and is being aided by Politicians, amidst other insecurities. Speaking on Wednesday when the chairman house of representatives committee on the army visited him in Maiduguri, Borno state, Buratai blamed some politicians for fuelling insecurity,…
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A member of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed, yesterday disclosed that Boko Haram fighters receive $3000 (an equivalent of N1,080,000 daily) as allowance, while Nigerian soldiers get a paltry N1000. According to a report by Guardian, he spoke during the presentation of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Sub-Sahara Africa’s…
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