Tag Archives: Boko Haram

Tayo Olanipekun The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, has said the narrative about the defeat of Boko Haram insurgents is now a matter of what people chose to believe as the insurgents’ propaganda now makes more headlines in the media than the successes achieved by the government troops. Buratai stated this in Abuja on Wednesday during a …

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The Presidency has confirmed the release of 76 out of the 110 abducted students in the early hours of Wednesday It said the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to all security agencies to do everything possible to secure the release of the Dapchi schoolgirls, abducted February 19, yielded the result. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, signed by  Segun Adeyemi, the Special …

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The Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, today returned 105 out of the 110 girls kidnapped from a high school compound in Dapchi a few weeks ago, Saharareporters has said. Quoting sources,the online newspaper said that the militant group came with the girls in nine vehicles same way they took them away. According to the report, there was confusion in the …

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Tayo Olanipekun Nigerian security forces ignored at least five calls made by members of the community to alert the military of the Presence of Boko Haram around Dapchi before 110 school girls were abducted by the militant group, Amnesty International has said. Around 2pm on February 19, the first call was made to the army command in Geidam, 54km from …

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Nigerian Army said its troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole have continued to record success in clearing the vestiges of Boko Haram from the Camp Zairo as they had contact with the insurgents and recovered battle tanks and other weapons from the terrorists on Tuesday. According to the Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman, the encounter occurred …

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The Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaigner and United States Congresswoman, Frederica Wilson, has  maintained that President Donald Trump’s condolence call to the widow of Sergeant David Johnson who died in a Boko Haram ambush in Niger last week, Myeshia, showed lack of compassion. Wilson, in a statement Wednesday night, said despite Trump’s criticism of what she said, she stood …

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Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno on Tuesday confirmed that Boko Haram insurgents had killed 31 fishermen at Baga in Kukawa Local Government Area of the state. Shettima made the confirmation at the presentation of relief materials donated to the state by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to the Internally Displaced Persons in Maiduguri. He said that the …

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Barely two days after the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Burutai ordered the Nigerian troop to arrest the leader of the terrorist group; Boko Haram, Ibrahim Shekau, the Police in Kano State have arrested five suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Gayawa village of Ungoggo Local Government Area of the state. Kano State Police Commissioner Rabi’u Yusuf on Sunday …

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Despite the Boko Haram taking over several territory including about 16 local government areas in the North-East, during the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, embattled former National Security Adviser (NSA) said the immediate past government deserved a feather in its hat for defeating the group. Speaking from detention where he is being held for allegedly mismanaging an estimated $2.1 billion meant for purchase …

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Nineteen people have now been confirmed dead after four female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, police said. In a monitored report by AFP, Borno State Police Commissioner, Damian Chukwu said the bombers had targeted mourners at a funeral ceremony in the suburb of Molai Kolemari on Tuesday night. Most of the victims were from a vigilante …

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