By Sam Eyoboka with Agency report FOUR Nigerian church elders held a Sunday service in their burnt church building on February 23, 2020, two days after Boko Haram militants abducted some of the church’s female members and set fire to the building. The terrorists’ rampage had destroyed churches, homes, schools and businesses, in the Christian […]

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says Nigerian army in collaboration with sister services will emerge victorious against enemies of national peace and security. Buratai stated this during the Nigerian Army Special Day at the 41st Kaduna State International Trade Fair on Saturday in Kaduna. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the […]

Lauretta Onochie is the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media. In this interview, she says the President will never interfere in the jobs of the legislative and judicial arms of government, saying that the Federal Government will find the funders of Boko Haram sect this year.  Excerpts:

By Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja The Nigerian Airforce said on Friday that it’s sustained onslaught against Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) in the Northeast under the auspices of Operation Decisive Edge has continued to yield tangible results. It said the latest of these was recorded on Thursday, 5 March 2020, when attack aircraft dispatched by the […]

Sometime in the early days of his first term in office, President Muhammadu Buhari indicated that if Boko Haram insurgents were disposed to dialogue, he was not averse to it.

IF words could make the dead turn in their grave, the founder of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Dr Frederick Fasehun, would have rolled over last week, caught between amusement and surprise at a remarkable statement during the first-anniversary lecture of his passing. On that occasion, former President Olusegun Obasanjo warned that the country risked […]

THE Operation Safe Corridor, OPSC, of the Federal Government is ostensibly designed to encourage “repentant” Boko Haram Islamic terrorists to surrender and accept the De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration, DRR, a programme of the Nigerian Army. President Muhammadu Buhari administration created it in September 2015. At least, three batches numbering over 1,000 have been reunited with […]

•Says lawmakers’ll oppose immunity for Senate President, Speaker By Tordue Salem Serving member of the House of Representatives, Rimamnde Kwewum Shawulu, represents Donga/Ussa/Takum and Special development areas Federal Constituency of Taraba State. In this interview with Vanguard, the former chairman Committee on Army, speaks on proposed immunity for principal officers of the National Assembly, the […]

•Urges spiritual solution to end insurgency •Faults claims of Islamisation Agenda Senator (Engr.) Kabir Abdullahi Barkiya representing Katsina Central has said that apart from the military action already being waged by the Nigerian Army at the war front, fervent prayers and fasting can also bring to an end the decades of Boko Haram’s terror in […]

Jihadists have killed five policemen in an attack on a northern Nigerian town where more than 100 schoolgirls were abducted two years ago, residents said Thursday. Fighters aligned to Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in four trucks fitted with machine guns stormed Dapchi town in northeastern Yobe State late on Wednesday, sparking intense fighting […]

The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, on Thursday dismissed reports that repentant and rehabilitated Boko Haram members were being recruited into the Nigerian military. The Defence chief stated this at a stakeholders’ Meeting of Operation Safe Corridor (OPSC) in Abuja. The meeting was convened by the Defence Headquarters to work out modalities for […]

… Scores of insurgents killed,19 fighter vehicles seized … ‘Taking the war to fleeing insurgents impressive’ BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has applauded the Nigerian military’s ground and air components for what he described as “decisive blow against Boko Haram” in the early hours of Wednesday, even when the insurgents […]

THE US government has reiterated its reward of $7million (N2.5bn) for anyone with credible information that can lead to the arrest of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau.

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said a total of 233 including ten girls were released last night from custody by the Nigerian Army. Some of the children who had been missing for up to four to five years, with many presumed dead by their families, according to the global humanitarian […]

Jihadists killed 14 security personnel and civilians in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state on Wednesday, security sources told AFP. Suspected Boko Haram fighters in trucks fitted with machine guns launched a dawn raid on the army base in the town of Damboa, sparking intense fighting. Sources said six soldiers, […]