Tag: Nigerian terrorism

The SSS says a budding extremist cell, affiliated to ISIS, was intercepted as it planned attacks in Katsina and Kano ...

"Many of the terrorists died while an unknown but substantial number of them fled with various degrees of injury".

The insurgents, according to witnesses from Gombe, are currently being repelled by soldiers some three kilometres away from the town.

The military says the ongoing mop up operation will determine the number of terrorists felled in the encounter.

“The military is now better equipped and more confident. Its newly acquired T72 tank is devastating."

Residents, who were close to the spots where the bombs were buried, said many casualties would have been recorded had ...

The ban takes effect Sunday (today) as Muslim faithful celebrate the end of Ramadan fast

PDP says APC may be seeking to promote an orchestrated inquest to exonerate itself. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has ...

An attack, described as massive by residents, is currently ongoing in Kautikari village, seven kilometres away from Chibok town in ...

The Nigerian military denied, Tuesday, a news report that 10 generals were being court-martialled for supplying arms and leaking operational ...

... Continued from last week. The Chief of Army Staff did the appropriate thing by redeploying the erring GOC after ...

A young man  in his mid 20s, who confessed being a bomb expert for the extremist Boko Haram sect has ...

The detained wards are Haruna Zarkya, 18, and three others aged 16, 11 and seven. A retired army sergeant on ...

Dear Sirs, I am writing to you as a Nigerian Diaspora parent. And I am writing to you in your ...

Dante Alighieri’s epic 14th century poem titled ‘’Inferno” (which means ‘’hell’’ in Italian) paints a frightful picture that portrays hell as ...

At least three people were killed and three others injured in the Saturday night explosion near a football viewing centre ...

A former Vice President of the World Bank, Oby Ezekwesili, has criticized President Goodluck Jonathan over a statement read on ...

President Goodluck Jonathan will this evening host a Media Chat to be broadcast live on radio and TV stations across ...

The extremist Boko Haram sect has claimed responsibility for Monday’s deadly car bomb at Nyanya bus station near Abuja, which ...

An apparently embarrassed Nigerian military on Thursday backtracked on its claim that it freed majority of the 129 female students ...

More than 200 people are feared dead in an explosion which rocked an outskirts of Abuja, the Nigerian capital, this ...