Boko Haram jihadists have attacked an army position in southeastern Niger, sources said on Sunday, following a lull in violence since the end of last year. The attack Saturday in Niger’s Diffa region, which has been targeted since 2015 by the jihadist group, left an unknown number of soldiers injured. “The military base of Chetima […]

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 […]