On Monday, an inferno destroyed parts of a camp in Nganzai Local Government Area of Borno State. A source at the National Emergency Management Agency said details about the fire at Nganzai are sketchy because the town is difficult to travel to due to the constant threat of Boko Haram attack on the highway leading
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The Nigerian military on Friday destroyed a new Boko Haram settlement at Mana Waji area of Borno State and killed several terrorists in massive air interdiction missions. The Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, said the air interdiction missions were conducted by the Air Task
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The dreaded Boko Haram insurgents, yet again, attacked communities in Borno State on the night of December 26, forcing residents to flee into forests and mountains to avoid being killed. It was gathered that the terrorists rode into the Mandara Girau community located in Biu local government area of the state, in nine Toyota Hilux
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A few hours after President Muhammadu Buhari declared that peace has been restored in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States, three towns in Borno and Adamawa States were attacked by Boko Haram insurgents on the night of December 24. The simultaneous attacks happened in Chibok and Debiro in Biu local government areas of Borno and Garkida
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At least three persons including a female bomber died in a suicide attack in Borno State on Friday night. The Head of Rapid Response Team in the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Bello Dambatta, who confirmed the incident to journalists on Saturday, said the suicide bomber infiltrated Kaimari, a remote village in Borno State, and
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Smiles were placed on the faces of about forty-eight (48) families who were bereaved by the killing at a rice field in Borno State have been given N600,000 to get over the lost of loved ones by Borno State Governm The bereaved families were also given bags of food items by a committee assigned by
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The Northern Eldersā Forum (NEF) has said that the attack of 43 rice farmers in Borno State who were beheaded by Boko Haram insurgents during a fatal attack on Saturday calls for immediate resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari. This was disclosed In a statement signed on Tuesday by Director of Publicity and Advocacy of the
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The Nigerian Senate advised President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday to send service chiefs packing since they have failed to secure Nigerians. The Senate decision, which is the third it would pass this year, followed a motion by Senator Kashim Shettima on the recent killing of 43 rice farmers in Borno State by
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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 Nigeriaās 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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The Federal Government on Friday said it has approved a temporary site for the establishment of a Federal College of Forestry in Jere Local Government Area of Borno state. The Minister of Environment, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, said this after a meeting with Governor Babagana Zulum, at the Government House in Maiduguri. Abubakar said that details
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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 ās main
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A Special Court Martial sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Wednesday sentenced a soldier, Cpl. Aliyu Yakubu, to five years imprisonment for defiling a 13-year-old girl in the state. The President of the court, Brig. Gen. Arikpo Ekubi, who delivered the judgment, also ordered the dismissal of the soldier from service for the offence. The
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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
Read moreNo less than 30 people mostly security agents, who were in the convoy of Borno State governor, Babagana Zulum, have now died after an attack by Boko Haram terrorists. Two sources told newsmen on Saturday that the number of fatalities from the attack on Friday had doubled as more bodies were found. The victims include
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All Progressives Congress, APC, in Hawul Local Government Area, Borno State has suspended its chairman Alhaji Auwal Mamman indefinitely. The suspension came on Friday, following what the party executives described as gross maladministration by the chairman in conducting party affairs in the local government. According to the party executives, who signed the petition and handed
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