The Minister of Defence, retired Brig.-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali, has denied an online media report credited to him that Boko Haram insurgents still controlled two local government areas in the North-East.

AFTER close to 30 years I found myself entering offices at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and I returned with a broken heart seeing what the original Boko Haram (Western civilisation is sin) has done to a once national headquarters of authentic intellectual culture and a hotbed of progressive activism.

The Nigeria army says its troops have killed 19 Boko Haram insurgents, including a kingpin, Ameer of Dalore at a camp in Borno state.

President Mohammadu has said he is angry over the news of latest cruel attacks on a mosque in Maiduguri, Borno State, describing Boko Haram, perpetrators of the dastardly act, as a group of mindless and godless people.

Troops of 26 and 28 Task Force Brigades, on Tuesday, repelled a daring attack by fleeing Boko Haram terrorists on military locations at Pulka and Bitta in the fringes of Sambisa forest, according to a statement by Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman,
Acting Director Army Public Relations.

Leader of onslaught against Boko Haram, Major General Yusha’u Mahmood Abubakar, is dead.

President Muhammadu Buhari said, weekend, that Nigeria would join the coalition of Muslim countries against terrorism, led by Saudi Arabia, because of the activities of Boko Haram.

Borno state government in northeast Nigeria has suspended trading in four cattle markets to prevent the sale of stolen livestock to raise funds for Boko Haram Islamists.

The District Head of Dalori, Alhaji Usman Lawan Dalorima and residents have informed President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State that no amount of pressure from Boko Haram attacks will compel them to desert their community and become refugees in Maiduguri.

The people of Dalori village, near Maiduguri, Borno State capital, will not forget in hurry what befell them on Saturday, February 2, 2016.

Suspected Boko Haram terrorists on Friday raided two villages, Mairi and Malari in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno, killing four persons and razing houses in the communities.

BENIN—There was pandemonium in Benin, yesterday, as an explosion destroyed about five houses in Sakponba area of Edo State capital city.

Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulkareem, the Chairman of the Gamboru/Ngala Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno, on Tuesday, appealed to the military to re-open the Maiduguri-Gamboru highway to facilitate movement of humanitarian aids to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) returning from Cameroon Republic.

ABUJA —The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, said yesterday that a total of 65 persons lost their lives and 136 persons injured, following the weekend attacks on Dalori village by insurgents.

Around 50 people were feared killed when Boko Haram fighters armed with guns and explosives attacked a village in northeastern Nigeria, the army and local residents said Sunday.