A Boko Haram faction led by the son of the group’s founder is trying to win over civilians by shunning the indiscriminate violence of its longtime figurehead that has alienated locals. Eyewitnesses to a spate of recent raids attributed to Islamist fighters loyal to Abu Musab Al-Barnawi in northeast Nigeria have said they repeatedly told […]
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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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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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The Borno State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency of Borno State Command has arraigned five suspected drug peddlers and seized about 2,200 kilogrammes of various psychotropic substances, the state commander made this known. The Commander, Mr Ona Ogilegwu, announced this on Monday in Maiduguri while briefing newsmen. He said three of the […]
Read More To ensure a hitch free New Year celebration in Borno State, the state government on Thursday placed restriction of vehicular movement in Maiduguri metropolis and its environs. In a statement signed by the state commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Dr. Mohammed Bulama said the restriction will take effect from 5:00pm on December 31 […]
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30 killed and 20 injured as three villages in Borno state of Nigeria was attacked by the Boko Haram insurgent a vigilante told AFP. “Most of the victims were slaughtered and most of the wounded (had suffered) machete cuts,” Mustapha Karimbe, a civilian helping the Nigerian military fight Boko Haram, said of Saturday’s attacks in […]
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