OPINION: Boko Haram, Northern Leaders and the conspiracy of silence
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 [...]
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May 16, 2013
Opinion: The way the media reports Boko Haram needs to change
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 [...]
Boko Haram Was Preparing To Declare State Of Their Own, Says PDP Chairman Bamanga Tukur
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 [...]
May 15, 2013
Can Nigeria quell Boko Haram’s insurgency?
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 »
Troops Deploy To Maiduguri And Yola
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 [...]
How Boko Haram has grown: Timeline of terror
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 »
Troops sweep into northern Nigerian cities
Deployment follows state of emergency declaration by president in three states where Boko Haram have stepped up attacks. Read full story on author website »
Don’t Suspend Boko Haram Amnesty, Nwanyanwu Urges Jonathan
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 [...]
Opinion: Amnesty for Boko Haram is a ploy – and it will fail
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 [...]
Boko Haram Kills Christian Association Leader In Borno 30 Minutes After Declaration Of Emergency Rule In The State-PREMIUM TIMES
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 [...]
CAN Leader Killed By Boko Haram Minutes After State Of Emergency Declaration
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 [...]
May 14, 2013
CAN’s Borno secretary killed minutes after Pres Jonathan’s broadcast
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 [...]
Three Nigerian states under lockdown
President declares State of Emergency as a precautionary measure against increasing attacks by Boko Haram. Read full story on author website »
Jonathan Meets Boko Haram Amnesty Panel
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, [...]
Boko Haram Say They Will Begin To Kidnap Women & Children
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 [...]
May 13, 2013
Boko Haram Claims Responsibility For Attacks In Baga, Bama; Promises More On The Way
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, [...]
Boko Haram claims Bama, Baga attacks, shows hostages
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 [...]
Cleric rallies support for amnesty committee on Boko Haram
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 Boko Haram’s release hostage video
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 »
Gunmen in fresh attack on police barracks in Borno
Barely a week after the military, police and prison formations in Bama, Borno State were attacked by Boko Haram gunmen, police barracks in the outskirts of the township were attacked [...]