The Al-Qaeda terrorist network on Sunday released a book written by a senior member including a detailed timeline leading up to the attacks on several U.S. airliners on September 11, 2001 which left nearly 3,000 people dead in three locations. Marking the 21st anniversary of the attacks, the book was written by Abu Muhammad […]
Ninety-eight students of Government Girls’ Secondary School Chibok of Borno State out of the 276 abducted by Boko Haram terrorists on April 14, 2014, are still in captivity. The head of the Intelligence Unit of the Joint Military Taskforce in the North East Operation Hadinkai, Colonel Obinna Ezuipke, disclosed this while briefing newsmen at […]
The Kaduna state government says troops of the Nigerian army have killed bandits who attacked the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna. Two officers were said to have been killed when the bandits attacked the academy in August, 2021. Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna commissioner for internal security, said the troops engaged the bandits at Tollgate […]
The Theatre Commander, North East “Operation Hadin Kai”, Maj.-Gen. Christopher Musa, said over 79,000 insurgents comprising combatants and non combatants have so far surrendered. Musa made this known in Maiduguri while briefing newsmen on recent successes of the command. The commander said that the sustained onslaught on the insurgents under the kinetic and non […]
Authorities of the army say troops of Operation Hadin Kai in the last two weeks neutralised 52 suspected Boko Haram Terrorists/Islamic State of West Africa Province fighters and arrested 14 terrorists. The feat was attained following operational activities at the fringes of various villages and communities in Kukawa, Dikwa, Bama, Kaga, Monguno, Guzamala, Konduga, […]
Tactical surveillance troops of the Nigerian military have arrested a Boko Haram informant, Mamuda Usman popularly known as Bado in Asokoro, a highbrow area in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The informant, according to the Military High Command, run errands for a suspected high-profiled Boko Haram Commander in Kaduna, who is on the wanted […]
Bandits have reportedly released 43 worshippers they abducted last Friday from a central mosque in Zugu community of Bukkuyum Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Daily Trust has learnt that the abductors had earlier subjected the captives to hard labour on their farmlands but later accepted to collect N5 million for their release after […]
The Department of State Services has explained why that the lead negotiator between the terrorists and passengers kidnapped from the attacked Abuja-Kaduna train, Alhaji Tukur Mamu, was arrested. The PUNCH earlier reported that Mamu was arrested in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, on Tuesday. The terrorists’ negotiator was arrested in Egypt alongside his family members. […]
Alhaji Tukur Mamu, lead negotiator between bandits and the passengers kidnapped from a Kaduna-bound train in March, has been arrested in Cairo, capital of Egypt, with his family members. Mamu, who was on his way to Saudi Arabia for lesser Hajj, was detained at the Cairo International Airport for 24 hours and is being […]
Some Boko Haram fighters who were escaping the military bombardment in Borno State have been attacked by their Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) rivals. The military has increased its raid against insurgents on the fringes of Lake Chad. Daily Trust had earlier reported how over 200 Boko Haram fighters and their commanders were […]
