Suspected Islamist gunmen shot dead 12 people in two separate attacks on villages near Nigeria’s border with Niger while three others drowned in a river while fleeing, locals said Sunday. The attackers, thought to be from the Boko Haram militant group…
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Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday dismissed his military service chiefs leading the fight against Boko Haram insurgents, following a court judgment that their appointment was illegal. Jonathan, in an official statement released by his office…
A total of 19 people were killed in a car bomb attack on a busy market blamed on Boko Haram militants, police in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, said on Wednesday. “From the latest tally at our disposal, the death toll stands at 19,” Lawan Tanko, the…
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked a market in restive northeastern Nigeria, killing five and injuring many more, witnesses said on Monday. More than 30 attackers armed with guns, explosives and knives stormed the market in Borno State, where a state…
Nigeria’s military on Tuesday blamed Boko Haram militants for a deadly bomb attack that killed at least 17 in a crowded market in Maiduguri, in the latest violence to hit the country’s restive north. Army spokesman Muhammad Dole said a Honda car laden…
President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the immediate release of a fresh number of over 165 persons apprehended by security agencies…
Nigeria’s military on Thursday said they had killed as many as 38 Boko Haram fighters during counter-insurgency operations in the country’s northeast. Army spokesman Colonel Muhammad Dole said troops on patrol foiled a planned attack on local residents…
The banned Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram on Wednesday said it had released a French Roman Catholic priest on compassionate grounds but insisted that no ransom had been paid. The militants, considered a terrorist organisation by the United States…
Public Safety Canada December 30, 2013 16:12 ET OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Dec. 30, 2013) – The Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, today announced that the Government of Canada has listed Boko Haram…
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead seven people and injured five more in a weekend attack on a wedding party in northeastern Nigeria, police said on Monday. Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire in the mainly Christian village of Tashan Alade, 230…
The Senator representing Kebbi south, Retired Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Magoro, has appealed to the Boko Haram sect to embrace dialogue…
MAROUA, 27 December 2013 (IRIN) – The authorities in Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital, have set up tighter border controls in…
The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists, Abubakar Shekau, has claimed a daring December 20 raid on a military barracks in the restive northeast, in a video obtained by AFP Friday. The insurgents stormed the barracks in the town of Bama in a convoy…
A military offensive in northeast Nigeria that killed more than 50 Islamist rebels has destroyed four villages and left corpses scattered in bushes, with some civilians among the dead, witnesses said Tuesday. The defence ministry has said the operation…
Nigeria’s troops have killed over 50 Islamists and destroyed more than 20 vehicles during a massive hunt for fleeing Boko Haram insurgents who attacked an army barracks in a restive northeastern town, a spokesman said Monday. Boko Haram gunmen stormed…
Nigeria’s military has surrounded a village in the northeast to flush out Islamist rebels who fled there after reportedly snatching soldiers’ wives and children during a daring attack on an army barracks nearby, witnesses told AFP Saturday. Suspected…
Scores of suspected Islamist gunmen stormed a military barracks in northeast Nigeria on Friday, spraying gunfire on the troops inside before torching the compound, the army and residents said. The military has reportedly deployed fighter jets and ground…
A Nigerian court on Friday sentenced the man behind a 2011 Christmas Day bombing to life in prison, in one of the highest profile convictions linked to the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency. Rights group have been pressuring Nigeria to take more Boko Haram…
The Nigerian army said Thursday it had killed 13 suspected Boko Haram gunmen in a shootout near the border with Cameroon after an armed robbery at a currency exchange business. “Our men succeeded in killing 13 suspected Boko Haram terrorists in a shootout…
Attacks by Islamist group Boko Haram in Nigeria’s restive northeast have killed more than 1,200 people since May, when a state of emergency was declared in the region, the United Nations said Monday. Nigeria placed the states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe…