The Islamic State Jihadist group, ISIS, has announced a change of leadership in the Boko Haram militants group.

The Nigerian Army said last night that remnants of Boko Haram terrorists in their numbers attacked troops location at Rann, Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno State and that, after a heavy gunfire confrontation, 16 of the terrorists were killed.

Boko Haram gunmen killed seven people in a raid on a town in northeast Nigerian Borno state near the border with Cameroon on Saturday, residents told AFP on Saturday.

Some parts of northeast Nigeria that have been devastated by seven years of violence from the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency could be suffering from famine, according to experts monitoring the situation.

A victim of Boko Haram attack, Mr. John Mbah, who now resides in Okpoko, Ogbaru Local Government Area, Anambra State, yesterday, gave a graphic account of how his father, Pastor Kenneth Mbah and sister, Adaugo Mbah were burnt alive in their church, Discipleship Ministries, in Dadawa, an outskirt of Sabongari, Kano State, by the dreaded Islamic religious sect, Boko Haram.

Outspoken Northern politician, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to treat the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, as terrorists and mete out appropriate military action against it as it is doing to Boko Haram insurgents in the North.

The look of hunger on the emaciated child in the newspaper was shocking and more shocking that it is not a child from the usual drought-stricken country. No, it is not, this picture was a Nigerian child.

The Director of Defence Information, Defence Headquarters Brig.-Gen. Rabe Abubakar, says the military will rehabilitate repentant Boko Haram members through its “Operations Safe Corridor’’.

Tens of thousands of Nigeriens who fled a deadly Boko Haram attack are in “great distress”, with many lacking food and healthcare, Niger’s interior minister said during a visit to the displaced Thursday.

The Nigerian Army on Thursday said Boko Haram terrorists now evade drones and aircraft surveillance by hiding in makeshift camps covered with shrubs

Nearly 700 people, most of them children, are receiving treatment in hospital in northeast Nigeria for severe malnutrition after being rescued from Boko Haram, the Borno state government said.

A major recruiter for Boko Haram Islamist extremists’ sect has been arrested in Borno State, an official of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has said, yesterday.

Boko Haram has killed four women in a remote village in Nigeria’s northeast in the latest attack by the Islamist group, local vigilantes assisting the military said on Saturday.

The Nigerian Army on Saturday confirmed the killing of 10 suspected Boko Haram fighters after a clearance operation in Gamboru-Ngala, Borno.

The first of an expected 2,000 troops from regional military powerhouse Chad began arriving in neighbouring Niger Wednesday, where Boko Haram insurgents inflicted heavy losses in the town of Bosso last week, a local security source said.