Five Nigerian soldiers were killed by Islamic State-aligned jihadists and dozens of civilians were kidnapped in a separate attack, military sources said Sunday, in the latest violence to grip the north of the country. A military convoy was hit in northeast Borno state on Saturday, and militants also attacked a transport convoy in the same
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Not less than 35 commuters have been reportedly kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents along the Damaturu-Maiduguri road in Borno State. The incident, according to security officials, happened on Friday, December 18, at about 5pm when the terrorists attacked a large convoy of commuters near Garin Kuturu in Jakana, a town located about 50km from Maiduguri,
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The United Nations on Monday withdrew its earlier claim that 110 farmers were killed by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in Zabarmari community of Borno State. In a statement on Sunday evening, the head of the UN System in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, claimed that least 110 farmers were killed by the jihadists. Kallon added that he
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The Nigerian military has on Monday put blame of its inability to clear out Boko Haram terrorists from the North-East on some behaviors of local individuals who often refuse to provide useful and valid information to security agencies. On Saturday, not fewer than 43 rice farmers were killed in some communities in Borno State. It
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Cross River State ex-Governor, Donald Duke, has alleged that most of the weapons used by Boko Haram insurgents and other terrorists in the country are supplied by security operatives. Duke also called on the Federal Government to investigate the security forces and flush out the bad eggs within their ranks. Speaking on a Channels Television
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Armed assailants killed six soldiers, injured 26 others and many others missing in an ambush attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria‘s Borno state on Saturday. The ambush, according to military officials briefed on the matter, occurred at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday between Jagiran and Monguno, one of the hotspot of the decade-long Boko
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United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on Wednesday, says the US government will use all tools at its disposal in the fight against terrorist elements such as Boko Haram in Nigeria and West Africa. Pompeo, according to a statement on his Twitter handle, made the promise at the end of a virtual meeting of
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Mr. Adariko Michael, on Tuesday as one of the defendants standing trial for arms procurement fraud told the commission that N2.2 billion was spent on prayers in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to win the war against insurgency in the country, an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigating officer said. Michael, who was giving evidence
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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Monday dismissed reports that its personnel refused to respond to distress calls from residents of Takulashi village, Chibok local government area of Borno State, during the Boko Haram attack on the community. The terrorists reportedly abducted nine women from the community on Sunday night. The NAF Director of Public
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Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped nine women and killed 11 other people on Sunday night during a raid on the northeast Nigerian village of Takulashi of Chibok in Borno State some residents said. Details of the attack on the remote village further revealed that 11 persons might have been killed in the attack as against
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Boko Haram fighters killed three villagers and abducted five children in the north part of Cameroon, where jihadist groups are increasingly active, local officials said Saturday. Local officials told journalists on Saturday the attack took place in the village of Oudal, six kilometres (four miles) from the country’s border with Nigeria. The abducted children, according
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Fighters from the Boko Haram jihadist group killed 14 farmers in restive northeast Nigeria , members of a government -backed militia said Tuesday .The sources told AFP that insurgents on Monday seized 15 farmers working on their irrigation fields in Ngwom village , 14 kilometers ( nine miles ) north of the region ’s main
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With very stern assurances that the Boko Haram insurgency would end in just 90 days, if given the permission to engage the terrorists, the South West security outfit, Operation Amotekun, has offered to help the Federal Government and the Borno State Government in the task of ending the insurgency, without firing a gunshot. These assurances
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No fewer than 869 insurgents have been killed while 321 kidnap victims were rescued by troops in frontline operations in the last three months, the Armed Forces of Nigeria has disclosed. Giving a breakdown of military operations within the time under review, the Coordinator Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, disclosed 9,040,300 litres of
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Barely 48 hours when some members of dreaded Boko Haram ambushed convoy of Governor Babagana Umara Zulum along Cross Kauwa-Baga road in Borno state leaving over 30 people dead including 10 policemen and 4 soldiers, another set of insurgents laid ambush along Monguno- Maiduguri axis and attacked the returning convoy on Sunday evening. Monguno is
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