Tag: ISWAP

Nigeria and other governments in the Lake Chad Basin region must target and dismantle terrorist groups’ information-gathering and processing systems.

The agreement comes as Nigeria confronts multiple security threats and seeks stronger international support to rebuild its defence capabilities.

The NHRC demanded government's action agaisnt growing insecurity in the country.

The report documents a sustained pattern of deadly ambushes orchestrated mainly by Boko Hara, the Islamic State West Africa Province ...

Convicted in Finland, Simon Ekpa leads a faction of IPOB, which wants an independent country of Biafra.

The governor said a coordinated military offensive involving the Army, Navy, and Air Force to target insurgent strongholds in the ...

In an Arabic statement published in its propaganda newsletter magazine, Amaq, ISWAP said it captured Mr Uba and executed him ...

The general reportedly kidnapped is a brigade commander and was said to be leading the troops.

The corps members—36 males and 38 females—were stranded around 9:05 p.m. on Tuesday after the three buses conveying them broke ...

The operations, he said, marked a decisive phase in the ongoing effort to degrade terrorists and criminal networks across the ...

The group, however, instructed its fighters to take cover, avoid large gatherings and limit the use of smartphones.

However, inherent in the genocide narrative is a wake-up call to the Nigerian State to effectively protect lives and property.

“We had credible intelligence that Mafa would be attacked, and it was duly circulated to all relevant authorities,” Mr Zulum ...

The government said it is steadfast in its duty to protect every Nigerian, regardless of ethnic or religious identity, and ...

It was reported that ISWAP fighters attacked a military base in Banki on Friday. This came barely 24 hours after ...

PREMIUM TIMES reported that more than 50 people were killed when the insurgents stormed the community on Friday evening.

The core impediment against the successful suppression of terrorism and banditry has been insufficiencies in the capacity and capability of ...

SSS urged the court not to grant the defendants facing prosecution over the June 22 massacre at a church in ...

DHQ said the operations were carried out under the Joint Task Forces in five geopolitical zones with combined air and ...

Before now, the rationing of food, with attendant severe malnutrition, had been routine in the IDP camps.

While these Sahelian states remain the cattle rustling fronts, some coastal West African countries like Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire serve ...

NAF says its “Preliminary battle damage assessment reveals the destruction of several structures housing key ISWAP leaders, fighters, and logistics ...

Remote and poorly resourced outposts are soft targets for attacks and a weak point in regional counter-terrorism efforts.

The operations were conducted across Borno and parts of Adamawa between 4th and 9th of July.

The explosives, according to a Facebook post by the Nigerian Army, were believed to be planted by Boko Haram or ...