Nigerian Air Force jets and military vehicles may have intercepted fleeing Boko Haram militants, who invaded Geidam town in Yobe…
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The Nigerian Army has arrested a soldier who specialised in training Niger Delta militants during its arms and ammunition mop-up…
Three persons were confirmed killed while several others sustained injuries when the Joint Task Force (Operation Pulo Shield) engaged suspected…
Yesterday, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, made claim that that close to N60b was lost to pipeline vandalism occurring nationwide. The…
Nigeria’s military indicated on Thursday that it could follow the example of Sri Lanka in fighting terror, to bring an end to an increasingly deadly insurgency by Boko Haram militants. A high-ranking military delegation from the South Asian island nation…
A car bomb attack and a suicide blast Sunday killed 18 people at a Kurdish political party’s office north of Baghdad and 11 others died in other violence in Iraq. Militants have launched major operations in multiple provinces in recent days, killing…
The reign of terror by Boko Haram militants in northern Nigeria is forcing 800 people to flee every day and has claimed over 3,000 lives in the last year, a report showed on Thursday. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said that a total…
Nigeria’s Boko Haram : Maiduguri ‘preachers kill dozens’ Jun 5, 2014 Suspected Boko Haram militants have launched an attack on a village near the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing about 45 people. The attackers told villagers…
Ruth Bitrus wailed uncontrollably and fell to the floor as she recounted the pain of separation from her two daughters, kidnapped nearly two months ago by Boko Haram militants. “I fasted for 15 days, living only on water,” she said, sobbing profusely…
The United States expressed skepticism Tuesday that more than 200 schoolgirls held by Boko Haram militants had been located by Nigeria, stating that it had no “independent information” on the matter. The country’s highest ranking military officer on…