The United Nations Development Programmes, UNDP, yesterday, said about 1.9 million people in North Eastern part of the country were in urgent need of recovery support, food and shelter.

Suspected members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect on Sunday night invaded Kurmiri village of Titiwa Ward, about 15 kilometres away from Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno state, in which the terrorists slaughtered the Chief Imam of the village alongside four other persons.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama has assured the international community that the destructive activities of the Boko Haram terrorist group has been greatly curtailed.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on Boko Haram sect to stop the recruitment and use of children as suicide bombers in the North-East.

Borno State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, has on Wednesday took delivery of assorted food and relief items to thousands of Internally Displaced Persons from 32 communities and local settlements which were attacked and ransacked by members of dreaded Boko Haram Sect.

The United Kingdom government has reiterated its support to Nigeria and neighbouring countries to defeat the destructive Boko Haram terrorists in the Northeast and the Lake Chad Basin region.

The Police in Borno on Wednesday said a top Boko Haram commander together with other members of the group had surrendered to the command in the state.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it has destroyed more structures in Borno used by Boko Haram insurgents as meeting points.

THE Nigerian Army claimed, yesterday, that troops of Operation Lafiya Dole in the North-East, killed many Boko Haram terrorists in an ambush in the early hours of Sunday.

OUR current national prevails remind me of the mythical two-faced Roman god, Janus, the god of war who presided over both conflict and peace. When I reflect on Nigeria’s unfolding drama, I think of Janus as wearing two faces, one denoting tragedy and the other, hope.

‘We did not do what we should have done when we should have done it. We left it to become a very very intractable problem’, these were the words of former president Olusegun Obasanjo while responding to questions in an interview with BBC’s Nkem Ifejika.

The Borno Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), on Monday said  six Boko Haram insurgents had surrendered to the corps.

No-one in north-east Nigeria doubts the bravery of the vigilantes. They have helped immensely in putting Boko Haram on the back foot.
But unless their sacrifices are recognised, they could end up presenting a new security threat

The Nigerian Army,  on Saturday,  expressed misgivings over attempts by those it referred to as Boko Haram sympathizers to denigrate its patriotic efforts at decimating the terrorists, checkmating their murderous exploits and clearing them out of the North East.

The Nigerian Army on Saturday said it had rescued six herdsmen abducted by Boko Haram insurgents at Kamuya community of Yobe State.