Suspected Boko Haram Islamists armed with explosives attacked a town in Nigeria’s troubled northeast on Wednesday, sparking a battle with soldiers that killed a large number of insurgents, the military said. Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade told AFP…
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Nigeria is winning the war against Boko Haram Islamists in the restive northeast that has claimed thousands of lives, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday, dismissing suggestions the insurgents were having the upper hand. “We state authoritatively…
The governor of Nigeria’s embattled Borno state warned President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday that the military is outgunned in its fight against Boko Haram and more troops are urgently needed. Governor Kashim Shettima travelled to the capital Abuja…
Gunmen suspected of being Boko Haram Islamists have reportedly killed dozens of people, mostly Christians, in a village in northeast Nigeria, an official and local residents said on Sunday. “They killed many, many people in the attack late on Saturday…
Residents of a northeast Nigerian town said Saturday hundreds of them have fled their homes for fear of attacks by Boko Haram militants who killed 43 people this week in a nearby village. About 400 men fled Bama on Friday to Maiduguri, the Borno state…
Boko Haram gunmen killed nine Nigerian soldiers after launching an ambush on a military convoy in the troubled northeast, a local official and a hospital source told AFP Thursday. The troops were responding to a distress call late Wednesday in the Madagali…
A gruesome attack by Boko Haram Islamists has killed 39 people in a village in the northeast, the area governor said after visiting the scene on Wednesday. “Up to 39 people have been killed and over 70 percent of the village has been razed to the ground…
Tens of thousands of people in Nigeria are missing out on vital services because of conflict, with the areas where Boko Haram operates worst affected, the Red Cross said on Thursday. The ICRC said it had helped some 40,000 people hit by the Islamist…
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday called on his new military top brass not to disappoint the nation in their task to crush the Boko Haram insurgency. He told the officers in Abuja that “the war against terror must be won in this country…
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday called on his new military top brass not to disappoint the nation in their…