Niger has begun the trials behind closed doors of about 1,000 suspected fighters from the Boko Haram jihadist movement, officials said Friday. Chief prosecutor Chaibou Samna told AFP that the trials, on charges of terrorist links, had begun on March 2. Those facing trial are from several countries including Niger and Mali, Samna said, as […]
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Boko Haram’s insurgency in northeastern Nigeria and around Lake Chad has uprooted more than 2.4 million people and left some 10.7 million in need of aid in a humanitarian catastrophe considered to be one of the world’s most neglected crises. International donors at a conference in Norway last month pledged $672 million in new money […]
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Due to President Muhammadu Buhari’s success in the 2015 general election, Boko Haram insurgents might have taken over the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock. The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu has said that President Muhammadu Buhari stated this during an interactive session with Nigeria students and youths […]
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As many as 236 people may have been killed in the botched Nigerian air strike against Boko Haram that hit a camp for civilians displaced by the unrest, a local official told AFP on Saturday. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday had said the death toll from Tuesday’s strike on the town of Rann in […]
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The Niger State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested two suspected Boko Haram members in Minna. The NSCDC Public Relations Officer, Ibrahim Yahaya, said the duo of Usman Al-Amin and Sanusi Ibrahim Bala were arrested at different locations in the state capital. Yahaya said Al-Amin was under surveillance by […]
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In commemoration of the 1,000th day of the abduction of schoolgirls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, President Muhammadu Buhari has restated the commitment of the Federal Government to securing the release of the student kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents. The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, stated this in a press […]
Read More President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the Nigerian Armed Forces to ensure the sustenance of peaceful co-existence among ethnic groups across the country. He said that despite the “political madness” in some parts of the country, it was duty bound for the military to ensure Nigeria’s survival as a geo-political entity. President Buhari made the remarks […]
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The Nigerian army has dismissed as ‘mere terrorists propaganda’, the new 25 minute Abubakar Shekau video in circulation. A statement by Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman in Abuja on Thursday slammed Shekau for making spurious claims, from his undisclosed location. “While effort is ongoing to subject the video for further forensic analysis, the Nigerian Army wishes to […]
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Borno state in northeast Nigeria has lost property worth about $6 billion to the war against Boko Haram since 2009. A Special Assistant to the state Governor, Mr Isa Gusau, said that 956,453 houses were destroyed across the 27 local government areas, about 30 per cent of the number houses in the state. “It would […]
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Boko Haram’s elusive leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video on Thursday to dispute a claim that the jihadist group had been routed from its Sambisa Forest stronghold. “We are safe. We have not been flushed out of anywhere. And tactics and strategies cannot reveal our location except if Allah wills by his decree,” […]
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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has described the defeat of the Boko Haram terrorist group as the best Christmas and New Year gift to Nigeria. He noted that the sacrifice of the Armed Forces was a gift to a nation that had been under tremendous stress on account of the deadly activities of the insurgents. Atiku, […]
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Dozens of Boko Haram fighters have given themselves up to authorities in southern Niger, the interior minister said, days after the Islamist group suffered key losses over the border in Nigeria. “Thirty-one young people from Diffa, who were enrolled a few years ago in Boko Haram, decided to surrender,” minister Mohamed Bazoum wrote on Twitter […]
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