Breaking: Boko Haram kidnaps aid worker, 50 passengers along Maiduguri- Damaturu
By Ndahi Marama More than 50 motorists, passengers including a United Nations Humanitarian Worker (Abubakar Garba Idris) have been abducted by suspected terrorists along the deadly Maiduguri- Jakana- Damaturu 135km federal highway. This latest incident is coming barely two weeks when 35 passengers mostly women were kidnapped near Mainok village situated between Jakana and Beneshiekh […]
Breaking: Boko Haram releases video of abducted Kankara schoolboys
By Nwafor Sunday Boko Haram has Thursday released a video showing the abducted Kankara schoolboys. The video obtained by SaharaReporters, which lasted for 4 minutes 8 seconds, had Abu Muhammed, Abubakar Bin Muhammed Shekar, the leader of Jamatu Ahlis Sunnah Lid Da’wah Wul Jihad, took responsibility of the invasion and abduction of over 300 students […]
UN concerned for safety of refugees in Niger, following Boko Haram attack
The United Nations voiced grave concern on Tuesday for the safety of thousands of refugees and internally displaced in the wake of a deadly Boko Haram attack on Toumour, a town in southeastern Niger’s Diffa region, near the border with Nigeria. A UN statement sad at least 28 people were killed and hundreds more wounded […]
Confusion as Shekau claims responsibility for Kankara schoolboys kidnap
Few hours after governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State claimed that the state and the kidnappers of students from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, have been in talks, Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed it was behind the abduction of the hundreds of students. The Governor, who according to a statement was accompanied by the […]
Niger votes in city, regional polls after jihadist attack
Niger voted in long-delayed municipal and regional elections Sunday the day after an attack by the Boko Haram jihadist group claimed at least 27 lives according to local officials, and two weeks ahead of a landmark presidential election. The vote had been postponed repeatedly because of jihadist attacks in parts of the poor Sahel country, […]
At least 27 killed in Niger Republic in Boko Haram attack
Jihadists from the Boko Haram group killed at least 27 people in an attack of “unprecedented savagery” in southeast Niger, local officials said on Sunday. Other people were wounded and some more reported missing in the assault on Saturday evening in the village of Toumour in the Diffa region, said a senior local official. Witnesses […]
