Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General T.Y Buratai, has called on troops of Operation Lafiya Dole that now is the best time to wipe out fleeing Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists. The Army Chief, who is at the thick of things, gave this charge in an address to the troops on the frontlines in Ngamdu, Kaga, […]

By Atadoga Atojoko Since 2009 when the Boko Haram group began a violent campaign in Nigeria, hundreds of lives have been lost and millions displaced. The continued bombings, killings, kidnappings, and the destruction of properties by Boko Haram have become of great concern to the Nigerian government and the international community. The activities of Boko […]

The Defence Headquarters has dismissed the reports on the alleged killing of civilians in airstrikes by Air Task Force component of Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD) at Shokotoko Village in Damboa local government area of Borno State. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Enenche said […]

Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has said his country’s troops, who have been deployed to fight jihadists in the Lake Chad region and the Sahel, will no longer take part in military operations outside national borders. “Our troops have died for Lake Chad and the Sahel. From today, no Chadian soldiers will take part in […]

The Chadian army said Thursday it had wound up an offensive against Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad border region in which 52 troops and 1,000 jihadists were killed. Army spokesman Colonel Azem Bermendoa Agouna told AFP that the operation, launched after nearly 100 soldiers were killed last month, ended Wednesday after the Nigerian jihadists were […]

The Citizens Against Fake Activists (CAFA) believes fake activists and promoters of falsehood are a worse menace to the country than even Boko Haram terrorists. According to CAFA, these self-acclaimed human rights activists are only interested in their pockets and this desperation led them into blackmailing the Nigerian military to promote the agenda of their […]

Nigeria and the Republic of Chad on Thursday agreed to sustain the tempo on the Boko Haram sect after the group operational bases in both countries were destroyed by troops. The Minister of Defence, Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi (retd), who stated this at the bilateral meeting of ministers of defence of the two countries in Abuja, […]

ABUJA — THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to speak up on reports that Chadian President Idris Deby, personally led his country’s troops recently to route out insurgents and freed Nigerian territories and soldiers held captive by terrorists in northern part of Borno state.

Seven people were killed when two suicide bombers, suspected to be members of Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist group, attacked a village in northern Cameroon on Sunday, police and a local official said. “Two Boko Haram bombers blew themselves up at around 8pm” in the attack on Amchide, on the border with Nigeria, a policeman said […]

The National Inter- Faith and Religious Organisations for Peace (NIFROP) believes God finally revealed himself to Chadian President Idriss Deby and his French counterparts to prevail against Boko Haram terrorists. The now repented Deby was guilty of turning blind eyes to the terrorism around the Lake Chad Basin, especially knowing the Nigerian troops can’t trespass […]