The West African bloc announced plans Saturday to increase cooperation with Central African states in the battle against “terrorism”, amid fears of Boko Haram’s insurgency spreading across the region. Nigeria has repeatedly said it needs more help from…
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Ghana’s president on Friday said West African leaders must welcome “all assistance” in the battle against extremism at an emergency regional summit on unrest threats facing the region. The comments came as Nigeria’s leader, Goodluck Jonathan, confronts…
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday vowed “total war against terrorism” following last month’s mass abduction of schoolgirls by Boko Haram Islamists amid news of attacks in three border villages that claimed 35 lives. Jonathan said in an address…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday directed the security forces to launch a full-scale military operation to put an end to…
DEMOCRACY DAY BROADCAST BY H.E. GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR, PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA MAY 29, 2014 Fellow Nigerians, 1. I…
Belgium investigators on Monday probed a possible terrorist link in a fatal weekend shooting by a lone gunman at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that has shocked the world. The inquiry over the shooting, which killed three people outright and left a young…
Saudi Arabia has arrested nine university professors for their alleged links to the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement, media reported on Monday. Investigators found the professors, two Saudis and the rest from neighbouring countries, had been involved…
A federal prosecutor urged a New York jury to convict Islamist cleric Abu Hamza on kidnapping and terrorism charges, insisting in closing arguments the evidence against him was “simply overwhelming.” “The real Abu Hamza is not the man you see now in…