The Abubakar Shekau-led faction of Boko Haram has reportedly claimed responsibility for a crash involving an alpha jet operated by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF). The aircraft, NAF 475, went off the radar on Wednesday evening. The jet was on a mission to provide support for troops on the ground fighting Boko Haram insurgents. Earlier […]
Suspected armed members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect on Wednesday invaded the Azir community in the Damboa Local Government Area of Borno state killing one resident with scores injured. The insurgents also looted foodstuff and livestock without confrontation, after setting ablaze some residential houses. Azir is about a 15km drive south of Damboa and […]
A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha-Jet has gone missing while on an operation in the north-eastern region of the country, authorities have said. NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, confirmed this in a statement on Thursday. He said the aircraft lost contact with radar while on an interdiction mission in […]
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, on Tuesday the Nigerian Army is making progress in its efforts to address the myriad of security challenges confronting the nation. He disclosed this at the end of the ‘Chief of Army Staff Combined 1st Quarter Conference and Nigerian Army Operations Retreat 2021″, in Abuja. […]
Many residents of Ebonyi State were killed while many others sustained various degrees of injuries on Monday night when suspected herdsmen invaded three communities in Íshíelu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. The suspected herdsmen who attacked Egedege, Obegu and Amazu communities also looted some properties in the area. A resident of the community who […]
Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi on Monday said that the sponsors of insurgency in the Northeast geo-political zone are also behind banditry in the Northwest and kidnapping in the Southwest. The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) spoke with reporters in Abuja on National security, shortly after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the […]
Leah Sharibu’s parents, Nathan and Rebecca, have described as “heartbreaking rumours” reports that their daughter had given birth to a second baby in Boko Haram captivity. Demanding that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), bring back their daughter with or without children, the traumatised parents said it was a big shame that the Buhari […]
Barely 72 hours after electric power was restored in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, Boko Haram insurgents on Saturday blew up another transmission tower in the city. Sources said the insurgents planted explosives on each leg of the tower, which they detonated at about 6 a.m. On Wednesday, jubilant residents of Maiduguri were seen in a […]
Three years and five weeks since her abduction in Dapchi, Yobe State, a United States-based group, US-Nigeria Law Group, has lamented the plight of the abandoned Dapchi “heroine Christian” schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, with reports she has given birth to a second child in captivity. It would be recalled that Leah, still held in captivity, was […]
•Speak Up, Stop Negotiating With Criminals, PFN Charges Buhari •Abductors Of Birnin Gwari Teachers Demand N15m Ibe Pascal Arogorn Bandits have killed more than 20 vigilantes in an attack on Kotonkoro in Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State. The attack, according to BBC Hausa, occurred on Monday after the vigilantes engaged a group of […]
