No civilian killed in Boko Haram attack on WFP’s convoy—Army
The Nigerian Army, yesterday denied the killings of civilians in an attack coordinated by the Boko Haram insurgents against the World Food Programme, WFP’s, trucks last Saturday.
Bomb blast kill four in Borno
Four people were killed in a blast at a camp for people displaced by the Boko Haram conflict in northeast Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Tuesday.
Boko Haram: NGO, WFP, FAO train 108 disabled persons in Borno
A Borno-based NGO, Damnaish Human Capacity Building Initiative (DHCBI), said it had trained 108 disabled persons affected by the Boko Haram insurgency on various trades in the state.
Boko Haram: UN supports 950,000 displaced persons with $13.4m
THOUSANDS of children, women and men in need of urgent humanitarian assistance in crisis-hit northeast Nigeria are to benefit from a $13.4 million allocation released by the United Nations, through the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund.
Six Nigerian soldiers killed in Boko Haram ambushes
At least six soldiers died in two separate Boko Haram ambushes in northeast Nigeria, military and civilian militia sources said on Monday.
Boko Haram escapees flood Abuja
Security sources made Sunday Vanguard understand, at the weekend, that the discovery that hundreds of degraded Boko Haram terrorists’ from Sambisa Forests, Bama, Konduga, Gwoza and other parts of the North East, have escaped to the FCT and were currently disguising their identities, but meeting secretly to launch deadly attacks on the city.
Chibok boy maimed by Boko Haram walks again
Ali Ahmadu, the six-year-old boy whose spinal cord was damaged by Boko Haram members, yesterday, returned to the waiting arms of excited family members and well-wishers in Nigeria after a successful corrective spinal cord surgery in the United Arab Emirates.
Chibok boy ran over by Boko Haram returns after surgery
The six-year old Boko Haram victim, Alih Ahmadu, who underwent a successful spinal surgery in Dubai, returned to the country through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), recalls that the young Ali was run over by Boko Haram terrorists with motorcycle when they invaded Chibok village in 2013. […]
Borno’s proposed Boko Haram Museum
THE decision of the Borno State Government to convert the home of Muhammad Yusuf, the late founder of Boko Haram into a museum is a welcome development. However, certain issues need to be put to rest in actualising this laudable project.
Troops capture Boko Haram commander, kill 4, rescue 212 hostages
ABUJA—Troops in Borno State, Tuesday, captured a Boko Haram terrorists leader.
Troops rescue 212 captives, capture 1 Boko Haram commander
Troops on Tuesday rescued another 212 persons held hostage by the terrorists after they cleared remnants of insurgents from some villages in the northern fringes of the Sambisa forest.
