110 abducted girls still missing, says Chibok community The Kibaku Area Development Association (KADA) in Chibok, Borno state, says 110 girls are still unaccounted for. The girls are among the over 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents in 2014. Speaking on Saturday at a media briefing held in Abuja, Dauda lliya, KADA president, urged […]

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, Tuesday reiterated the government’s commitment to resuming the prosecution of Boko Haram suspects. Malami, while receiving the Nigerian Ambassador to Netherland, Eniola Ajayi, said machineries were in motion to continue the special courts’ proceedings in Kainji, New Bussa, Niger State, for prosecution of suspected […]

Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno state, has visited Chibok LGA over the recent attacks in three communities in the area. Suspected Boko Haram insurgents had attacked Kawtakare, Korohuma and Pemi in the LGA. Four persons were reportedly killed, and 110 building burnt by the insurgents. The governor who visited on Monday also met families of […]

A church has been razed and 15 girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in a village near Chibok local government of Borno state, following an attack on Thursday night. A local vigilante was also killed during the attack. The name of the village is Pemi, the same area where a Pastor, Bulus Yukura, was kidnapped […]

Troops of the Nigerian Army(NA) in a joint operations conducted with other security agencies have dislodged a notorious stronghold of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra ( IPOB) and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN) at Lilu Forest in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State. Lilu is a border town between Imo and […]

Four persons have been found dead, while a search for missing persons is ongoing, following an attack by suspected insurgents linked to the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) on Kautikari community in Chibok LGA of Borno. According to residents, the insurgents invaded the area around 5pm on Friday with different of weapons and […]

The Borno State Commissioner of Police, Abdul Umar, has said no mobile police officer was abducted by Boko Haram during an attack on Police Mobile Training College, Gwoza. The police chief, who admitted that there was an attack on the college, said the insurgents were successfully repelled by policemen. Umar, while addressing a press conference […]

In Bana, Kwapaena, Unguwan Madaki, Koppa and Kurebe communities, Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, farmers scarcely benefit from their labour as marauding Boko Haram fighters determine what they take home. According to a resident of one of the communities, the jihadists also collect levies to grant farmers access to their farms. “They would […]

Senator Mohammed Ndume Ali and Chairman Senate Committee on Army on Friday denied media reports (not in Vanguard) claiming that dozens of Police Officers were kidnapped by Boko Haram members who invaded Limankara village and some parts of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, including the Police Mobile Training School which was deserted some […]

Boko Haram terrorists have abducted an unspecified number of mobile policemen at the police mobile training school in limankara Gwoza local government area of Borno State, the hometown of Senator Ali Ndume, the Chairman Senate Committee on Army. Information available to The PUNCH revealed that the insurgent fighters attacked the training school around 8:22 on […]