The Nigerian Army, yesterday, temporarily closed the only safe highway connecting Maiduguri in Borno State and Damaturu, Yobe State, following a siege laid to the road by Boko Haram insurgents.

Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in northeast Nigeria after an increase in violence in the Boko Haram conflict, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

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Malam Baba Modu, an 80 year-old father to a Boko Haram commander, popularly called ‘Ba-Ana’, has begged his son to surrender and embrace peace.

Nigeria’s government on Tuesday called for media “restraint” in reporting Boko Haram, after the military raided a newspaper that published a sensitive story on the insurgency.

A delegation of the Borno state Governor, traditional rulers, elders, national and state assembly members, ‎local government chairmen, women groups, the Nigerian Union of Journalists and labour unions, on Monday presented a letter containing security-related “observations” and ten undisclosed demands to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Following a massive land and air onslaught by troops of the Nigerian Military and air strikes by the Nigerian Air Force, over 100 Boko Haram terrorists have been killed in clearance operations in Baga and neighbouring towns, the Army has said.

Newly-elected President Muhammadu Buhari, riding on the crest of promises to eradicate Boko Haram within months, launched a major offensive in May 2015. By December that year, the regime was already boasting of having “technically defeated” the terrorists, asserting that they no longer occupied “an inch” of Nigeria’s territory.

THE Nigerian Air Force,NAF,said Sunday that its troops involved in the fight against insurgency and terrorism in the North East destroyed Boko Haram terrorists’ gun trucks in Borno State.

Alhaji Muhammad Imam, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Borneo, has promised to adopt proactive programmes to facilitate rehabilitation and resettlement of displaced persons in the state within his first six months in office, if elected.

Nigeria’s Islamic State West Africa Province, a faction of Boko Haram affiliated to the Islamic State militant group, has intensified attacks against the army in the northeast of the country at an alarming rate, and the military appears to be struggling. Here are the principal reasons:

The current upsurge in Boko Haram attacks on Nigerian Army units in Borno and Yobe states are not only as a result of inadequate weapons as being claimed but also a product of field commanders’ tactical mistakes and self-interests, Saturday Vanguard learned.

 Maj.-Gen. Benson Akinroluyo, the Theater Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, has tasked police personnel deployed to the Northeast to be professional and respect human rights in the discharge of their duties.

Niger’s army killed more than 280 Boko Haram militants near the southeast border with Nigeria in days of land and air raids, the defence ministry said Wednesday.

Niger’s army killed more than 280 Boko Haram militants near the southeast border with Nigeria in days of land and air raids, the defence ministry said Wednesday.