President Goodluck Jonathan has charged members of the Presidential Committee on engagement with members of the Boko Haram Sect to come up with solutions that will restore peace in the [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has called on security agencies to be mindful of the citizens of the country while carrying out their assignments reassuring that the federal government will take steps [...]
by Alkassim Abdulkadir Goodluck Jonathan as the Commander-In-Chief must ensure Baga goes beyond just an investigation, any wrong doing should be tried along the sterling traditions of the Nigerian army. [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday formally inaugurated the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution on Security Challenges in the North with a promise to support the panel and other [...]
The Northern Elders Forum,NEF, Tuesday, demanded the setting up of a judicial commission of enquiry into the shootout in Baga , a boarder town in Borno State where over 180 [...]
A strategic security consultant, Max Gbanite today absolved the military of blame in the deaths that occurred in Baga Town in the northeastern state of Borno, a hub of the [...]
By Ola Audu The Nigerian military has, in less than 48 hours, released multiple but conflicting statistics on the Baga bloodshed, varying the number of the dead and date of [...]
Contrary to reports that 185 people died as a result of last weekend’s clash between the operatives of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) and members of the radical sect, [...]
Respected Catholic clergy, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has advised the government to be cautious in its approach towards finding a panacea to the security crisis in the country by ensuring that [...]
Following a clash between Military Joint Task Force (JTF) and suspected members of Boko Haram sect in which about 185 persons were killed and over 2000 houses destroyed, Borno State [...]
Intense fighting between the military and Islamist fighters from Boko Haram in Baga, northern Nigeria, is reported to have killed at least 185… Read full story on author website »
By SaharaReporters, New York The entire township of Baga, a border town in Borno state, was razed down at the weekend as a Nigeria-led multinational force and suspected members of [...]
At least 185 people killed during fighting between Boko Haram group and troops centred on fishing community in north. Read full story on author website »
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has flayed attempts at using the Nigerian Governors Forum as a pressure body against President Goodluck Jonathan just as he differentiated the rested agitation [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Sheik Ahmad Gumi has again denounced the Boko Haram Islamic sect as diabolical, and called for them to be flushed out from all of Northern Nigeria, [...]
Reports reaching DailyPost from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital confirms that three staff of the West African Examination Council, WAEC were on Friday shot dead by unknown gunmen suspected to [...]
by Akan Ido In this interview with the Vanguard Newspapers, Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State talks about his party, the race for the 2015 elections, the opposition parties, Boko [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, who was nominated to serve in the proposed amnesty committee by President Goodluck Jonathan, has dispelled reports he is under pressure to serve on [...]
THE Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has frowned at utterances of the Ja’amatu Nasril Islam (JNI) that tagged CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, and his executive council as enemies of [...]
Mr. Dare Ogunlana, a security expert has said that the various insurgencies in northern Nigeria and Niger Delta have awakened the government to see the error of their ways; describing [...]
By Weekly Trust Many local governments areas in northern Borno and other parts of the state are gradually coming under the control of members of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lid [...]
by Rachel Ogbu Photo: Punch More than 5,000 members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram with their wives and children might benefit from the proposed Federal Government amnesty, new reports claim. Avcording to [...]
Balarabe Musa Hails Govt’s Move THE President of the National Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) in Nigeria, Dr Datti Ahmed, who was among the few Nigerians selected by the [...]
Balarabe Musa Hails Govt’s Move THE President of the National Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) in Nigeria, Dr Datti Ahmed, who was among the few Nigerians selected by the [...]
As some Northern leaders and politicians continue to mount pressure on President Goodluck Jonathan to grant amnesty to the members of Boko Haram sect, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has advised the [...]
A French family of seven kidnapped by the Nigerian armed group, Boko Haram, in Cameroon in February have been freed and are in the hands of officials in the central African [...]
Sources close to Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, one of President Goodluck Jonathan’s nominees for the proposed amnesty committee for Boko Haram, have confirmed that the nominee is under pressure to decline to serve because of suspected Federal Government insincerity. Baba-Ahmed is a retired Federal [...]
After weeks of anxiety over their safety, the French family of seven, including four children who were kidnapped in Northern Cameroon and taken to Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram militants [...]
By Reuters UK YAOUNDE (Reuters) – A French family of seven kidnapped in Cameroon's Far North Region and taken to Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram militants have been released, a [...]
The head of the Supreme council for Sharia in Nigeria, Datti Ahmad, has turned down his appointment into a 26-member committee announced by the Federal Government on Wednesday to dialogue [...]
