Tag: Borno state

Located on the borders of Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad, Darak is valuable to local and national economies – and to ...

In his Democracy Day address, the president said the mood of the nation had been dampened by the kidnapping of ...

Teachers nationwide are holding a peaceful rally on Tuesday to protest the abduction of their colleagues and pupils from schools ...

Data compiled and analysed by PREMIUM TIMES shows that the mass school abduction crisis has worsened under President Tinubu. Although ...

Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), a joint force in the North-east, have “rescued” 92 civilians kidnapped by suspected Boko ...

The army said the attack occurred in the early hours of Friday along the Nigeria-Cameroon border in the Sector 1 ...

The NHRC gave the update during its monthly dashboard presentation at the commission’s headquarters on Monday.

The Nigerian Defence Headquarters said the ongoing offensive aims to degrade terrorist capabilities, disrupt their operations, and maintain pressure on ...

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Tony Ojukwu, described the repeated reports of civilian ...

The detainees are categorised into three groups: prosecution, rehabilitation, and reintegration.

The police in Borno State said they have recovered an abandoned backpack containing explosives.

Governor Babagana Zulum Borno State, North-East Nigeria has been the epic centre of Nigeria’s longest running war between the Islamist ...

The displacement follows violence in early March that forced residents to abandon their homes and seek refuge in Pulka, about ...

Worshippers were attacked during Easter services in Benue, Plateau and Kaduna. In Ngoshe and other North-east communities, violence struck shortly ...

Governor Babagana Zulum A recent comment by Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State on the bombing of Jilli market by ...

The Senate also called on the Chief of Defence Staff and other service chiefs to conduct a comprehensive operational and ...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said it has killed several terrorists in a precision air strike targeting the Yuwe axis ...

Brigadier General Braimah's death and those of his compatriots happened against the backdrop of Nigeria's prolonged battle against insurgency in ...

PREMIUM TIMES reported that suspected fighters of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked a military formation, killing a colonel, ...

Military authorities have not issued an official statement about the attack.

The rights group said the accidental airstrike killed more than 100 people.

The spokesperson for NAF, Ehimen Ejodame, an air commodore, described the airstrikes as precision bombings of terrorists’ location in the ...

"The National Assembly will stand firmly with our armed forces and all security agencies to defeat terrorists and bandits threatening ...

The army also said that many of the images and videos circulating about the attack were inaccurate, urging the public ...