Tag Archives: Boko Haram

An attack this weekend by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in Maiduguri, Borno State, has left 65 people dead, almost triple the initial toll, a local official said Sunday.

The Nigerian Army on Monday said it killed nine ”social media personalities” of  the Islamic State for West African Province(ISWAP).

NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka,  has berated the Federal Government for attacking former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the latter’s comments that Boko Haram insurgency and herdsmen crisis had become an agenda to ‘Fulanise’ West Africa and ‘Islamise’ Africa.

Eleven persons were killed and fifteen others injured in Saturday’s Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri, the Commissioner of Police in Borno State, Damian Chukwu, disclosed.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate,  Atiku Abubakar, has promised practical measures to end Boko Haram insurgency and restore peace to Borno, if elected.

Malam Baba Modu, an 80-year-old father to a Boko Haram commander, popularly called ‘Ba-Ana’, has begged his son to surrender and embrace peace.

The Army have confirmed the killing of thirteen soldiers and a police officer in Yobe State in a Boko Haram attack.

A Boko Haram commander, identified simply as Umar, has been arrested in Lagos. Umar is alleged to be the overall commander of Edo and Ondo states multiple bank robberies and several killings in the Okene area of Kogi.

To conceal the true number of officers and soldiers that died during the Boko Haram attack on Nigerian Army 157 Task Force Battalion last month, the Nigerian Army is set to organize a private burial for the killed soldiers.

At least 30 Nigerian soldiers died in combat with Boko Haram jihadists who overran a military base in Zari near the border with Niger, two military sources told AFP on Saturday.