Tag: Boko Haram

Twenty five ex-Boko Haram members laid down arms and surrendered to the Nigerien government.

Mr Buhari says new threats in the areas of insurgency and terrorism emerged due mainly to the defeat of ISIS.

Mr Gaidam said the proposed commission would help repentant insurgents to re-enter mainstream politics, religion and society.

Nigeria is plagued by incessant deadly clashes between herders and farmers, which has spread from the country’s middle-belt region down ...

Mr Buhari said this while condemning a recent Boko Haram attack in Adamawa State.

The directive to Catholics is coming weeks after the Christian Association of Nigeria held 'prayer protests' across Nigeria

The lawmakers described the bill as needless, waste of resources and misplaced priority.

A top vigilante official in Yobe State confirmed that some of his men were killed and their Hilux van seized.

Already a subject of fierce push back, the bill offers further concession to Boko Haram militants who choose to cease ...

The governor said Nigeria needs 100,000 more troops to defeat Boko Haram

The attack last week by Boko Haram insurgents on stranded travellers, which claimed the lives of over 30 people, has ...

The teachers'union says 547 of its members have lost their lives to the Boko Haram insurgency.

“As we redouble our efforts for Leah’s return, we can never allow the terrorists to divide us."

The ex-SGF speaks on the rising insecurity in the North-east, workings of the National Assembly as well as the internal ...

19 Nigeriens and four Nigerians reportedly died in the stampede

An army spokesperson said the Boko Haram attempted to infiltrate Damaturu.

“The NAF wishes to categorically state that the false sensational news item, with its gory doctored visuals, is totally fake."

Mr Gusau said that the governor held similar meetings in the past weeks in Abuja.

The terror leader mocked President Buhari, making reference to his visit to Maiduguri, where he was booed by distraught residents.

"These brazen acts of razing entire villages, deliberately destroying civilian homes and forcibly displacing their inhabitants with no imperative military ...

"The people of Borno love Buhari. Maybe their expectations were over-exaggerated."

A local Auno official pleaded that the Nigerian government deploy more security officers to the village.

The Senate urges the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs to send relief items to the affected families and rehabilitate the affected ...

The lawmakers also asked the president to declare a state of emergency on security following the Auno killings.

"Buhari, we don't like you. We don't want you anymore," the protesters chanted in Hausa.