Biafra agitators loyal to Simon Ekpa attacked an army checkpoint early on Wednesday at Ekenobizi, a border community between Abia and Imo states in Umuopara, Umuahia South Local Government Area, killing two soldiers. Mr Ekpa, based in Finland, heads Autopilot, a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). IPOB is a separatist group agitating […]
Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, says members of the Lakurawa terrorist group have been retreating in the wake of a fusillade from troops. Makama reports that the coordinated air and ground attacks targeted Lakurawa camps in Kebbi and Sokoto states, leading to the seizure of livestock, a vital revenue […]
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters confirmed that a new terror group named Lakurawa has emerged in Nigeria and is operating in the Northwest region of the country. Spokesman of Defence Media Operation (DMO), Major General Edward Buba, who broke the news during a press briefing in Abuja, said the terrorists are not of Nigerian origin but […]
Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, says members of the new terrorist group Lakurawa are offering financial incentives to recruit youths in Sokoto. The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) recently declared nine suspected members of the terrorist group wanted. Edward Buba, director of defence media operations, said the new group emerged from […]
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has declared nine suspected members of the Lakurawas terrorist group wanted. They are Abu Khadijah, Abdurrahman, Dadi Gumba a.k.a Abu Muhammed, Usman Shehu, Abu Yusuf, Musa Wa’a, Ibrahim Suyeka, Ba Sulhu and Idris Taklakse. Edward Buba, director of defence media operations, disclosed this while speaking to journalists in Abuja on Thursday. […]
Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, says the growing number of out-of-school children in the country poses a great security risk for the nation in the future. He said that the over 20 million out of school children in Nigeria are only being prepared for recruitment into Boko Haram and banditry in the next 10 […]
The unconfirmed video clip, yesterday, indicated that some armed members of Boko Haram have gruesomely murdered two Red Cross staff, in Ngoshe Community of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State. Vanguard had recently reported killings of farmers and abduction of many people in the community and Kirawa town of Gwoza, with looting of unripe […]
Thirteen repentant Boko Haram fighters ex-fighters have escaped with rifles and motorcycles they got from the Borno State government, which co-opted them to join military operatives in the fight against the insurgents in the State. They are among thousands of former Boko Haram fighters and their families who surrendered to the government. It was gathered […]
At least 600 people were killed during a recent assault by Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM) in Burkina Faso, a French government security assessment has said. In August, residents of Barsalogho, a Burkinabe town, were digging trenches around the town to protect themselves from terrorist attacks when the al-Qaeda-linked militants rode in on motorcycles […]
At least 17 fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have drowned while trying to cross a river along the border between Nigeria and the Niger Republic. Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, noted that the river is between Kafetoa and Bulabulin Gaidam communities in Yobe state. […]
