The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said it was expecting delivery of new fighter aircraft from both the United States and Italy to intensify its aerial campaign against the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast. The aircraft being expected are 12 Super Tucano, which the United States said would not be ready until 2023 and 6 […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his administration will not rest until the remaining Chibok girls still in Boko Haram’s captivity since April 2014 are safely released. In a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said Buhari restated his commitment in Katowice, Poland, at a bilateral meeting […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday in Maiduguri, Borno State, ordered the military to eliminate all threats of Boko Haram, declaring that the war against terrorism is “a must win’’. “It is a must win war. I want to encourage our troops not to be distracted by speculations but remain focused and committed to the task of […]
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The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, on Sunday said Boko Haram insurgents came on a robbery mission on Saturday night at Bale Shuwa village in Jere Local government of Borno state and made away with cows, sheep and goats. Alhaji Bashir Garga, NEMA’s Northeast Zonal Coordinator, made the disclosure in a statement in Maiduguri. Garga […]
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At least 16 Nigerian soldiers are missing following clashes with Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad area, military and militia sources told AFP on Tuesday. The incident began when gunmen in several trucks attacked a military base and a local market in the town of Kukawa late on Monday, briefly forcing troops out of […]
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No fewer than 254 surrendered and repented Boko Haram sect members were reintegrated by the Federal Government. Maj.-Gen. Bamidele Shafa, Coordinator, Operation Safe Corridor, announced the development during a town hall meeting and dialogue with Boko Haram affected communities on Saturday in Yola. The meeting was organised by the Presidential Committee on the North East […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that the brutal activities of the Boko Haram sect would soon become history. President Buhari gave the assurance on Thursday night when he hosted members of the Kannywood entertainment industry to a dinner at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President who spoke in Hausa language at the meeting said that […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday night reassured that the brutal activities of the Boko Haram sect would soon become history. The president gave the assurance when he hosted members of the Kannywood entertainment industry to a dinner at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said that the Federal Government would not allow any group hiding under […]
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Published on 10.10.2018 at 23h54 by AFP At least seven Nigerian soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram jihadist attack on a military base near the Niger border, the military said Wednesday. The Islamists and the army were engaged in a fierce battle on Monday in Metele, a village in Nigeria’s northeast Borno State, the […]
Read More A prominent Boko Haram Commander, Ali Gaga has been killed by other Commanders of the terrorist group while planning to surrender to the military authorities and escape with about 300 captives from their den, a competent source disclosed. The sources who spoke to PRNigeria on grounds of anonymity said that Ali Gaga was killed by […]
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says in spite of pocket of attacks by remnant of Boko Haram terrorists in Borno North, the army is tightening the noose against them. Buratai, therefore, urged Nigerians and people of the region in particularly not to panic as those attacks do not signal resurgence of insurgency […]
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The Operation Lafia Dole of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), has destroyed some facilities of the Boko Haram terrorists, at Bukar Meram and Tumbun Allura on the fringes of Lake Chad in Borno. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Daramola who […]
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