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Nigerian Army and DSS Intercept Armed Terrorist Group in Sokoto State

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:00:25 +0000

Troops deployed for counter-terrorism operations in the North West region, in collaboration with the Department of State Services (DSS), successfully intercepted an armed terrorist group in the Modachi general area of Isa Local Government Area, Sokoto State. Responding to a distress call, the joint operation was conducted to prevent a potential disaster and loss of [...]

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Shekau Resurfaces, Proofs Chadian President Wrong, Says He’s Alive And Still In Charge Of Boko Haram

Wale Adebayo — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 21:30:05 +0000

Nigeria’s most elusive criminal and leader of the blood-thirsty terrorist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has resurfaced. The terrorist leader declared once more that reports he had been killed, deposed or badly injured were false. In an eight-minute Hausa-language audio message released Sunday and confirmed by security experts to be that of the Boko Haram [...]

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Abubakar Shekau No Longer Boko Haram Leader – Chadian President | #Nigeria

Wale Adebayo — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:30:13 +0000

Blood-thirsty terrorist group, Boko Haram, is no longer led by the “invincible” Abubakar Shekau, Chad’s President Idriss Deby, declared Tuesday. Deby also revealed that efforts to combat the insurgents had succeeded in “decapitating” the group and would be wrapped up “by the end of the year”, in confirmation of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari’s assurance that [...]

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MASSOB Members’ Arrest: No Amount Of Intimidation, Provocation Will Stop Actualization Of Sovereign State Of Biafra – Uwazurike

Wale Adebayo — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:15:45 +0000

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has vowed that no amount of intimidation, provocation or arrest of its members would stop it from pursuing and actualizing its objective of a sovereign state of Biafra, no matter how long it takes. Leader of the movement, Chief Ralph Uwazurike, who made [...]

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Baird Strongly Condemns Boko Haram Attack in Northeastern Nigeria

apofeed — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:05:46 +0000

OTTAWA, Canada, June 6, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — “Canada condemns in the strongest terms today’s terrorist attack in northeastern Nigeria, which has killed and injured scores of defenceless civilians, including women and children. “This was a cowardly attack carried out by the terrorist group Boko Haram, which has been unleashing unspeakable forms of violence [...]

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#Insurgency: European Union adds Nigeria’s Boko Haram to blacklisted terror groups

Ade Adewale — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:58:08 +0000

The European Union on Monday announced it has imposed sanctions on Nigeria's Boko Haram as an Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group weeks after it kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls. The decision to blacklist the group follows its designation as…

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France’s foreign minister offered China help with Boko Haram hostages

Adewale A. — Mon, 19 May 2014 08:18:04 +0000

France's foreign minister offered China his country's help on Sunday in locating 10 workers feared kidnapped by Boko Haram militants, as African leaders joined forces to fight the terrorist group. "We have already told our Chinese friends that we were…

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Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau: Osama bin Laden wannabe

Adewale A. — Mon, 19 May 2014 08:09:58 +0000

Get ready Africa (and the United States) because Abubakar Shekau, the still-somewhat-shadowy, thirty-something leader of Bobo Haram, the Islamic terrorist group that kidnapped 300 Nigerian schoolgirls, has a role model: the late and unlamented Osama…

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Finding Nigeria’s lost girls with US Drones [VIDEO]

Adewale A. — Thu, 08 May 2014 08:26:51 +0000

(NBC News) President Obama is sending U.S. advisers and drones to help find hundreds of Nigerian girls kidnapped from their school by the terrorist group Boko Haram.

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Mothers Across Nigeria Protest Student Killings, Abductions [VIDEO]

Ade Adewale — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 07:18:19 +0000

Recently, 57 students were killed in their sleep by the terrorist group, Boko Haram, in the state of Yobe and 20 girls were also abducted by the terrorists. Following this development, mothers across major cities of Nigeria took to the streets in protest…

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Egypt to try the brother of Qaeda chief Zawahiri brother

Ade Adewale — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 17:01:31 +0000

The brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri will stand trial in Egypt along with 67 others on charges of forming a "terrorist group", state media reported on Sunday. Mohamed al-Zawahiri was arrested last August for supporting Islamist president…

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Cairo bomb wounds five as Egypt widens crackdown on Islamists

Adewale A. — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:19:14 +0000

A bomb exploded near a bus in Cairo Thursday injuring five people, a day after the government widened a crackdown on Islamists by declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group. The windows of the red and black public transport bus were shattered…

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Egypt declares Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group

Adewale A. — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 22:13:08 +0000

Egypt's military-installed rulers declared the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted president Mohamed Morsi a "terrorist" organisation Wednesday, signalling a wider crackdown after blaming it for a deadly police compound bombing claimed by a jihadist group.…

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