Tag Archives: Boko Haram

Boko Haram Islamists have killed 10 people and abducted 13 others in a raid on a village near the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok where the militants kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls in 2014, locals told AFP Sunday.

The world is quite aware of the abduction of several persons; women, children and men, including the female students of Government Secondary School Chibok, Borno State Nigeria by Boko Haram Terrorists group.

——Disputes Allegation of hitting Girls The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) is examining the latest video from Boko Haram group purporting to show some of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls.

The new Boko Haram leader, Abu Masab Al-Barnawi, says Christians in Nigeria will be the new target of the sect’s attacks, vowing that the sect will kill all Christians and “blow up every church that we are able to reach.”

The Nigerian Army said on Friday that two suicide bombers attacked the town of Dambos in Borno state, with one of them gaining entry into a mosque and killing six persons and himself. Attempts by the other suicide bomber to detonate his explosive in a bigger mosque was however foiled by troops . A statement signed by Col Sani Usman, …

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has personally responded to allegations that he acquired houses in Dubai, United Arab Emirates using the proceeds of corruption, claiming that the allegations were the handiwork of cyber and internet terrorist who had been defeated on land in the epicenter of Boko Haram insurgency.

Twenty-four people were killed when Boko Haram fighters opened fire on mourners near the town of Gulak in Adamawa state. The attack happened in Kuda village at about 8:00 pm on Thursday “killing 24 people and injuring several others”, said Maina Ularamu, a former local government chairman in nearby Madagali. Adamawa police spokesman Othman Abubakar, based in the state capital …

 The Nigerian Army said on Sunday that it had commenced large scale operations to smoke out Boko Haram terrorists from their Sambisa forest hideout in Borno. Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, the Theater Commander Operation Lafiya Dole said this while briefing newsmen in Maiduguri. “I want to inform you that troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole are conducting operations in the heart …

Following Monday’s attack on troops of the 113 Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Borno, which were successfully repelled, military sources have told Vanguard that over 30 Boko Haram terrorists were killed while scores escaped with gunshot injuries.