The Adamawa State chapter of Nigeria’s Muslim Council says at least 5,247 Muslims have been killed in the past four years in the northern state because of Boko Haram. A report presented Sunday adds that more than 5,100 Muslims in the state have been injured since 2013. The report was presented to the Adamawa governor, […]
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The Nigerian air force said on Wednesday the United States had agreed to sell fighter planes to Nigeria, as the West African country continues its eight-year conflict with Islamist insurgency Boko Haram. The sale of the 12 A29 Super Tucano aircraft, with weapons and services, is worth $593 million. The U.S. ambassador to Nigeria presented […]
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The Senate will, at the plenary on Thursday (today), debate the proposed withdrawal of $1bn from the Excess Crude Account by the Federal Government to fight Boko Haram insurgency. Raising a point of order at the plenary on Wednesday, Senator Samuel Anyanwu (PDP, Imo-East), sought the permission of the chamber to present a motion on […]
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Nigeria’s opposition has rejected a plan to spend a billion dollars of oil money to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in the country’s volatile northeast. Last week, the governor of the southern state of Edo, Godwin Obaseki, told reporters the federal government had been given the nod to withdraw the cash from the country’s Excess […]
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Military authorities say Nigerian soldiers have arrested more than 400 people associated with the Boko Haram extremist group hiding on the islands of Lake Chad, including fighters, wives and children. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu says the two-week operation netted the largest number of arrests of Boko Haram fighters in recent months in northeast Nigeria. It included […]
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Nigerian state governors on Thursday approved the release of $1 billion from the country’s excess oil account to the government to help fight the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency. The account holds foreign reserves from excess earnings from sales of crude. It currently totals $2.3 billion, according to Nigeria’s accountant general. “We are pleased with the […]
Read More MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria’s military has repelled an attempt by suspected Boko Haram militants to seize the northeastern town of Magumeri, a spokesman said on Sunday, a day after the attack. The assault was the latest in a series of attacks in northeast Nigeria, where the conflict with the Islamist insurgency has dragged into […]
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The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has called on commercial banks and other businesses that left the North East in the wake of Boko Haram insurgency to ensure businessmen and women in the region have easier access to funds. This is even as only 25 per cent of adults out of the estimated population of […]
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday admitted that he was disturbed and surprised by the claim made by members of Boko Haram sect about the support they have been receiving from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. He however said he was happy that his administration had been able to prove that it can […]
Read More The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Tukur Buratai said on Tuesday that the Federal Government (FG) is currently into acquisition, installation and application of modern technologies in the fight against the Boko Haram terrorist group in the country. He said the development was made possible through the federal government collaboration with the United […]
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The United Nations Children’s Fund has said that over 2,295 teachers lost their lives and 19,000 people were displaced in the North-East since the Boko Haram insurgency started in 2009. Also, the organisation, in a statement issued by its Deputy Executive Director, Justin Forsyth and obtained by our correspondent, noted that over 57 per cent […]
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Cameroon has broken international law by forcibly deporting at least 100,000 Nigerians who had fled there to escape Islamist Boko Haram militants, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. Cameroon’s minister of communications declined to comment on the report, which said the army had been detaining the refugees and torturing some of them, before the […]
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