When he heard that the Nigerian army had declared his family’s home town of Banki free from Boko Haram militants and safe to return, Bukar Abdulkadir did all he could to bring his family back to the place they had fled three years ago.

Britain and the United States on Friday said Boko Haram was preparing to kidnap foreigners in remote northeast Nigeria, which is in the grip of a food crisis caused by the conflict.

Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday continued to flay comments by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the reasons Dr. Goodluck Jonathan lost re-election as president saying that Obasanjo’s comments were framed to show his disdain for his successors and position himself as Nigeria’s best ruler ever.

Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency has secured its first publicised conviction in relation to the relief effort for victims of Boko Haram, as two men were jailed for stealing food aid.

The Nigerianarmy calls it “New Banki City”, an optimistic name conjuring up visions of modern housing. The reality is an overcrowded camp for 32,000 desperate people made homeless by Boko Haram.

Army authorities disclosed on Thursday that several Boko Haram commanders were killed in several Operation Deep Punch attack on hideouts and camps of the terrorists around the Sambisa Forest general area.

Three suspected female suicide bombers were killed while attempting to attack a military outpost near Muna garage at the outskirt of Maiduguri in Borno State, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said.

Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau has been injured and one of his deputies killed in an air strike in northeast Nigeria, civilian and security sources told AFP on Wednesday.

Borno State Police Command said, yesterday, that it had arrested a firewood vendor and driver, Malam Modu Mustapha, suspected to be purchasing fuel and food items for Boko Haram insurgents.

The Police Command in Borno said on Sunday that it had arrested a driver, Malam Modu Mustapha, suspected to be purchasing fuel and food items for Boko Haram insurgents.

At least five soldiers were killed and another 40 injured when a Boko Haram jihadist rammed an explosives-laden pick-up truck into a military convoy in northeast Nigeria, security sources told AFP on Friday.

The dog that foiled mass killing by a female suicide bomber in Borno recently, will be bestowed with posthumous award by the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association, NVMA.

A bold step made by members of the once dreaded Boko Haram terrorists to infiltrate military troops in their Sambisa Forest camp suffered a setback yesterday, as 15 of them were shot dead.

MAIDUGURI—Troops involved in the Operation Lafiya Dole in the North-East weekend foiled Boko Haram attacks on Adagali town in Adamawa; and Limankara village in Borno State, just as they arrested three Chadian Boko Haram terrorists.

THE first set of military personnel trained by the Defence Headquarters to service and maintain military war vehicles including armoured vehicles being currently used against Boko Haram terrorists in the North East, graduated yesterday.