by Cheta Nwanze Sadly the ACN decided to play politics with the #SoE in the North. This hard-hitting editorial tells them precisely where to stuff that play. Read full story on author [...]
Nigeria’s military on Friday attacked Boko Haram Islamist strongholds across the northeast, launching deadly air strikes on insurgent camps, the military said, while residents reported that forces had deployed in [...]
Culled from Punch Early reports of military operations in the three North-East states under emergency rule, on Thursday, indicated that Nigerian soldiers had recaptured three of the local government areas [...]
The Nigerian army begins raids on Islamist group Boko Haram in the north-east of the country. Read full story on author website »
Army begins operation against fighters as fighter jets and helicopter gunships deployed in country’s northeast. Read full story on author website »
Northern elders, yesterday, broke their silence on the slamming of state of emergency on three states, describing the action of President Goodluck Jonathan as an indirect declaration of war on [...]
The Nigerian Army has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew across Adamawa State, one of the three states that had a state of emergency imposed on them by President Goodluck Jonathan for [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Nigerian Army yesterday formally commenced air and ground hostilities against Boko Haram under emergency regulations in thick forests in Sambisa, Borno State in an area [...]
Nigeria’s army has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew across the north-eastern state of Adamawa to curb attacks by militant Islamists. It is the first… Read full story on author website »
by Cheta Nwanze While simultaneously failing to give us an alternative solution to the #BokoHaram menace, Uncle Lai said that the Prez’s decision lacked “original thinking”. Late Prof. Read full [...]
Nigeria has begun an offensive against Boko Haram Islamists, raiding camps in a remote northeastern park, while more than 2,000 troops have been deployed to retake territory seized by the [...]
by Niran Adedokun “..In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it [...]
by Ifeoluwapo Odedere This piece is not a dissection of the activities of the Boko Haram Sect, neither is it an an*lysis of the security and political threats that it [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has disclosed that President Jonathan took the last option of declaring a State of Emergency [...]
There is no doubt that the situation in northern Nigeria is deteriorating fast and now President Goodluck Jonathan has admitted as much. No-one… Read full story on author website »
The Nigerian Army on Wednesday launched a military campaign with over 2,000 soldiers, to flush Islamist militants out of bases in the country’s North East border areas. President Goodluck Jonathan [...]
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three north-eastern states as militant Islamists intensify their offensive… Read full story on author website »
Deployment follows state of emergency declaration by president in three states where Boko Haram have stepped up attacks. Read full story on author website »
The National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Dan Nwanyanwu has called on the Federal Government not to suspend the dialogue and amnesty programme extended to the Boko Haram sect. Mr [...]
by Onyiorah Paschal Strangely enough, instead of an outright condemnation of this position by Northern leaders and their sympathizers that had been making a fuss about amnesty, they appear not [...]
By Premium Times Gunmen, believed to be members of the extremist Boko Haram sect, on Tuesday evening shot dead the Borno Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN. read [...]
Gunmen, on Tuesday evening, shot dead the Borno Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN. The gunmen are suspected to be part of Boko Haram. Faye Pama Musa was [...]
Just minutes after President Jonathan declared a State of Emergency in Borno State (and two other states), the Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the state, Reverend [...]
President declares State of Emergency as a precautionary measure against increasing attacks by Boko Haram. Read full story on author website »
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, met with members of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North. The Chairman of the committee, Karibu Turaki, [...]
The leader of Boko Haram says his group has started kidnapping women and children as part of its bloody guerrilla campaign against the federal government, according to a video released [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Boko Haram sect has claimed responsibility for the recent major assault on Baga and Bama, in Borno state, in which over 200 people, including soldiers, [...]
KANO (AFP) – The purported head of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed two recent deadly attacks in the northeast in a video obtained by AFP Monday, which also [...]
The Chairman, ECWA Kaduna Central District Church Council, Rev. Joshua Anyam, has urged the public to support the Federal Government’s amnesty committee for Boko Haram members so as to put [...]
Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram has abducted women and children in response to the arrest of its members’ wives and children, it… Read full story on author website »
