FEAR gripped the entire South-West, last week, when two commanders of the dreaded terrorist group listed as numbers 156 and 176 on the wanted Boko Haram members’ list were arrested in the region. The suspects who have made confessional statements include 42-year-old ldris Ibrahim Babawo nicknamed Nagada and 20 year-old Mohammed Bashir, were arrested in Isua, in Akoko South-East area of Ondo State.

Five people were killed in a suicide bomb attack when Boko Haram raided a remote village in northeast Nigeria, a civilian militia member and the emergency services said Thursday.

People made homeless by Boko Haram’s brutal insurgency will need years of support to help rebuild their lives, even if security improves, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council said on Wednesday.

Amnesty International, AI, has said that following the continuation of the mass trial of Boko Haram terror suspects by the Nigerian Federal Government, that justice would be impossible especially for the victims of attacks by the insurgents unless the trial is done in a fair manner.

Three hundred Boko Haram suspects were officially remanded in custody in Nigeria on Tuesday, as hearings got under way in the first mass trials linked to the Islamist insurgency.

GOVERNOR Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State, yesterday, met President Muhammadu Buhari  closed-door at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, and demanded a refund of N13 billion the state spent during the last administration on security to fight the Boko Haram insurgents.

As the federal government gets set to commence trial of 1,600 Boko Haram suspects, about 1,200 family members of some of the suspects  yesterday launched a fund raising exercise to back their campaign for justice for the suspects.

Leader of the team of judges handling the Federal Government initiative on the quick dispensation of Boko Haram cases, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja has assured of expeditious trial of suspected terrorists in various detention facilities across the country.

Some women in Maiduguri have called on the Federal Government to commit the Boko Haram suspects to public hearing as against the ongoing private trial.

Nigeria’s Boko Haram started as an Islamic anti-corruption group that became a violent, IS-affiliated movement whose insurgency has threatened stability in the Lake Chad region.

The Nigerian Army on Saturday said its troops had killed two Boko Haram insurgents at Mayanti village of Bama Local Government Council of Borno State.

The Nigeria Army on Friday said it had transferred 760 suspected Boko Haram members to Borno Government for reintegration into the society.

Nigeria-The United Kingdom will continue to stand by Nigeria to defeat the Boko Haram terrorist group, the British Armed Forces Minister, Mark Lancaster, has said.

FOLLOWING the confession of a Boko Haram member in Ondo State, Mohammed Bashir, that members of the sect are scattered across the state, the State government has assured the people of adequate security of their lives and property.

TROOPS of 151 and 202 Battalions of 21 Brigade Nigerian Army, under Operation Lafiya Dole, in furtherance of clearance and blockade Operation Deep Punch II, in separate but well-coordinated attacks, last Wednesday, simultaneously laid ambush on unsuspecting Boko Haram terrorists along Firgi-Pulka road in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.