By Charles Kumolu, Deputy Editor In the light of renewed deadly attacks by Boko Haram, a former Chief of Training, Operations and Plans of the Nigerian Army, Major-General Ishola Williams (retd), speaks on new strategies to be employed in defeating the terrorist group. He also offers his perspective on calls for the engagement of mercenaries. […]

…They tied up victims, slit their throats By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri ‘They separated the aged from the rest of us, ordered us to take turns in paying homage to their leader inside an abandoned building. But whoever went in never came out. At a point one of the insurgents guarding us told us those inside […]

Boko Haram fighters have killed three civilians in Cameroon’s far north bordering Nigeria, where the jihadist group has stepped up attacks, local officials said Friday. Three others were injured in the overnight raid in Assighassia, a town which has been the target of multiple attacks,  Mahamat Chetima Abba, the traditional chief of the nearby Mozogo […]

The Defence Headquarters says the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole has eliminated scores of terrorists in multiple air strikes on Sambisa Forest. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Enenche said the air raids were conducted at Bone and Mudu in Yale-Kumshe […]

*No helping Nigeria again — Mercenary group *Boko Haram no longer collecting tax from citizens — Lai Mohammed *CSOs demand new security approach, sack of service chiefs *Why House of Reps still engage with service chiefs  — Spokesman By Levinus Nwabughiogu, Gabriel Ewepu & Luminous Jannamike The Defence Headquarters said yesterday that the decision to […]

By Kingsley Omonobi Against the backdrop of continuing Boko Haram attacks and killings in the North East which last weekend resulted in the slaughter of 43 rice Farmers in Zabarmari area of Borno state, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has called on Communities and the States where Banditry and terrorism […]

The Boko Haram jihadist group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a brutal massacre of farmworkers in Borno over the weekend as the death toll rose to 76. The grim search for bodies continues after gunmen on motorbikes attacked the area outside Borno state’s capital Maiduguri on Saturday, slaughtering dozens of labourers in rice fields near […]

No fewer than seven farmers, including a nursing mother, have been killed by bandits who attacked three communities— Tashar Bama, Dogun Muazu and Unguwar Maigayya—of Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State.

Authorities in Borno state on Monday began returning around 3,000 people to their homes six years after they were displaced by jihadist violence, officials said. The operation came after a weekend attack on farmworkers killed as many as 110 people in the state in what would be the deadliest assault this year blamed on Islamist […]

By Ndahi Marama – Maiduguri Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State on Sunday admitted that the dreaded Boko Haram sect are still existing strongly in many parts of the state especially in the Sambisa Forest, River Fringes of Koshobe and Lake Chad Basin posing threats to over 6 million people in the state. Zulum spoke […]