BOKO HARAM: Shettima issues 2-wks ultimatum to ‘runaway’ LG staff
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has directed all runaway staff on the payroll of the state government, especially medical workers, to return to their posts.
Independence Day Bombing: Scores feared killed, injured as female suicide bombers hit Borno
Several female suicide bombers on Thursday evening, sneaked into Sageri, Ajilari and other outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, carrying out multiple blasts, which sources said, scores of innocent civilians were feared dead and injured.
Proposed Amnesty: 80 B’Haram terrorists surrender to troops
The military on Thursday, disclosed that 80 Boko Haram terrorists have surrendered to troops prosecuting the war against insurgency in a land mark event in Bama, Borno State.
At least 1,600 killed in Boko Haram violence since June
At least 1,600 people have been killed in the Boko Haram conflict since the start of June, taking the civilian death toll to some 3,500 this year, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
Women held as sex slaves in S.Sudan ‘rape camps’
One woman was abducted by soldiers and taken to a military camp, tied up and raped repeatedly for two months.
Nine dead in suspected Boko Haram attack in Borno
Gunmen thought to be Boko Haram fighters on Sunday killed at least nine people in northeast Nigeria, in a trademark raid that also left 10 people injured, police said.
