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 »
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 [...]
Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, weekend urged President Goodluck Jonathan, to stick to dialogue in dealing with the Boko Haram crisis rather than imposing [...]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to shelve the plan, if he has any, to impose a state of emergency on some of the northern states worst [...]
Four days after Bama was invaded by Boko Haram, with over 55 persons murdered, it still remains a ghost town as there is no movement in and out of it, [...]
The UK Foreign Secretary; William Jefferson Hague has reacted fervidly to the recent extremist attack in north east Nigeria, as he reiterated UK’s support pointing out that the protection the [...]
First, just imagine:Abubakar Shekau, Kabiru Sokoto and Abu Qaqa stepping out of Aso Rock Presidential Villa after conferring with the President and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria. Mind you, these are leaders [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Ijaw Media Forum has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to declare a state of emergency in Borno, Bauchi and Yobe States as a way of [...]
The BBC’s Tomi Oladipo reports from Maiduguri, Nigeria, where the Islamist group Boko Haram is based and has waged a violent insurgency to create… Read full story on author website [...]
United States has blamed the Federal Government for the excessive use of force by Nigerian security agencies in the fight against Boko Haram members. In a statement released on the [...]
As controversy continues to trail the proposed amnesty for the Islamic fundamentalists, Boko Haram, respected cleric and President, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has advised President Goodluck [...]
Members of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North on Thursday met behind closed doors with the mastermind of the Chritsmas Day bombing [...]
• .IGP vows to arrest killers, panel meets Boko Haram leaders • Jonathan cancels Namibia trip, meets with service chiefs, others • Doctor shot over rejection of 22 policemen’s bodies [...]
by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim Where the American government vowed to bring the murderers of three of its citizens to justice, and did so within a short time, the Nigerian government [...]
The Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of the crisis in northern Nigeria has debunked reports that some members of the committee are demoralised following incessant attacks in some [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has appealed to the Boko Haram sect [...]
by Joe Igbokwe True to the tag he had been bearing since he was recruited to go after the real and perceived enemies of the Jonathan government, Doyin Okupe behaved [...]
The Nigerian Army, yesterday, said that the recent attack on the 202 Battalion Barracks in Maiduguri, with rocket propelled grenades and anti-aircraft guns, that left over 55 persons dead was [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has deplored Tuesday’s attack by armed terrorists on Bama, in Borno State which claimed scores of lives. The Special Adviser to the President Media and Publicity; Dr [...]
While Nigerians are are to recover from the coordinated attacks launched by suspected Boko Haram members at Bama on Tuesday, another dare-devil group stormed a police station at Bangi town [...]
At least 55 persons were killed when suspected Islamic militants sect, Boko Haram attacked Separate security formation in north eastern town of Bama, Borno State; Military and Police official [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Military sources have told SaharaReporters that Tuesday’s unprecedented onslaught on Bama by suspected Boko Haram terrorists resulted in the death of two soldiers and 13 of [...]
The history of The Commonwealth, an association of 54 countries, with the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II as the symbolic head, is a mixed grill of some sort. Many ordinary [...]
At least 55 killed and 105 inmates freed in coordinated attacks on army barracks, a prison and police post in Bama town. Read full story on author website »
Fifty-five people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria in an attack by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, the Nigerian army says. Read full story on author website [...]
