By Ndahi Marama Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Monday said, the porous borders between the state and three Neighbouring countries of Niger, Chad and Cameron was responsible for the proliferation of firearms by insurgents. He insisted that, without proper manning of these International Borders by security agencies, the 12-year crisis lingering […]

New findings have revealed that some Human Rights groups and some foreign non-governmental organizations are behind the elongation of the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria. This was revealed in an investigative report by civil society organization, Centre for African Liberation and Socio-Economic Rights (CASLER). According to the findings of the investigative report, it was stated […]

Boko Haram jihadists on horseback killed two men and seized two others when they attacked farmers outside Maiduguri city in Borno, anti-jihadist militia told AFP Saturday. The insurgents rode into fields in Alau village on Friday, seizing four farmers, hacking two to death and kidnapping the others after inflicting machete cuts on them, the sources […]

…Govt should stop fooling us …Reasons for failure disastrous, disappointing, unacceptable …FG has been docile in fight against terrorists …Go all out to secure this country By Dayo Johnson; Samuel Oyadongha, Umar Yusuf, Demola Akinyemi; Festus Ahon; Marie-Therese Nanlong; Egufe Yafugborhi; Davies Iheamnachor; Chioma Onuegbu; Ibrahim Hassan; Emem Idio; Femi Bolaji; Adeola Badru and James […]

Jihadists have killed 14 people on a Cameroonian island on Lake Chad near the border with Nigeria after their town decided to block food supplies to the insurgents, security sources said Thursday. Fighters from the so-called Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) landed on the island of Bulgaram aboard speedboats from an enclave on the […]

By Ndahi Marama Mohammed Ali Ndume, Senator Representing Southern Borno and Chairman Senate Committee on Army has said the report credited to him that 70 Elders were killed in his community, Gwoza Local Government Area by Boko Haram sect happened more than five or six years ago, and not a fresh attack as being insinuated […]

The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Kuchingworo and Durumi camps in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja have threatened to join Boko Haram should Federal government continue to romance with repentant terrorists and ignore them their victims. They issued the threat at the public presentation of the report ‘Managing Internal Displacement Crisis in Nigeria’ held in […]

By Olu Fasan Obadiah Mailafia, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, recently stirred up a hornet’s nest when he told a radio station that “one of the northern governors is the commander of Boko Haram”. As quick as a flash, the Department of State Services, DSS, invited him for “questioning”, and the Nigerian […]

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THE 1991 ground war in Iraqi desert chaperoned by the United States of America lasted only 100 hours, but Nigeria’s war against Boko Haram has raged on for more than a decade.  What is wrong with Nigeria’s strategy on the war against insurgency?

Governor of Borno state, Babagana Umara Zulum has raised the alarm that the dreaded Boko Haram sect was recruiting fresh members , mostly from the  internally displaced persons, IDPs.

By Ibrahim HassanWuyo Governor of Borno state, Babagana Umara Zulum has raised the alarm that the dreaded Boko Haram sect was recruiting fresh members, mostly from the internally displaced persons, IDPs. According to the governor,” truly, the Boko Haram sect is working on people to join them. This is frightening. If the IDPs living in […]

By Kingsley Omonobi Following Air Strikes by fighter aircraft of the Nigerian Airforce on terrorists and their camps in the Lake Chad region, more than 20 Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists were on Monday liquidated, according to the Defence headquarters. Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche made this known in a statement on Wednesday in […]

…Describes BHT/ISWAP attack as futile effort to scuttle resettlement of community By Kingsley Omonobi Military authorities disclosed on Thursday that three Soldiers lost their lives while two with serious injuries are receiving medical attention following Boko Haram terrorists’ invasion of Kukawa town in Borno on Tuesday. The military said eight (8) Boko Haram terrorists were […]

The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC) has attributed the lingering activities of Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State to conspiracies and sabotage by people unknown. SHAC also decried the lack of cooperation by the state government as well as politically motivated hostilities against the Nigerian military. The centre made these revelations in a report signed […]