Tag: boko haram
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Boko Haram takes responsibility for kidnap of Katsina schoolboys, says western education against Islam
Boko Haram terrorists have claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of schoolboys of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State on Friday night. In the wake of the attack, at least 600 out of over 800 schoolboys were declared missing. Although the state governor, Aminu Masari, claimed only 333 are missing, a school…
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Insecurity: Occupy Lake Chad, Sambisa Forest to fish out Boko Haram terrorists, Sultan challenges Army
The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar pointedly asked Nigeria’s military on Monday why they have not occupied the Sambisa Forest and Lake Chad islands, which the Boko Haram terrorists have been using to stage attacks against Nigeria. The Sultan, a former Brigadier-general of the army raised the poser when he led a team of traditional…
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Boko Haram attacks Borno town, murders soldier, four civilians
Boko Haram terrorists have killed one soldier and four other persons in an attack on Askira town in the southern part of Borno State. It was gathered that the attack occurred around 1pm on Saturday and by the time the insurgents were repelled by a fighter jet, a master warrant officer, one vigilante and three…
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Boko Haram terrorists kidnap groom, best man in Borno
Suspected members of Boko Haram have kidnapped a groom and his best man as they were returning from his wedding in Borno State. The two are said to be aid workers. The groom is an employee of the UN World Food Programme, and the best man a colleague from the International Committee of the Red…
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ICC indicts Boko Haram, Armed Forces for war crimes, to commence investigation
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said her preliminary examination of the situation in Nigeria has established that both Boko Haram and Nigeria’s security agencies have committed crimes against humanity. She announced the conclusion of the preliminary examination in a statement Friday and recommended an investigation into the crimes committed. “Following a thorough process,…
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Boko Haram escapees operating as bandits in North-West, abductors in South-West –NGF
Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, Kayode Fayemi, says Boko Haram absconders from the North-East part of the country are infiltrating other parts of Nigeria as bandits and kidnappers. With the recent onslaught on 43 rice farmers in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents, some concerned persons have stated that the President Muhammadu Buhari declare…
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In defence of Garba Shehu – Hope Eghagha
By Hope Eghagha I was miffed to no end last week when Nigerians took unnecessary umbrage at the exotic, fiercely loyal presidential spokesman, the sardonically inimitable and infinitely loquacious Mallam Garba Shehu over statements he made about the Boko-Haram-slaughtered farmers of Zabarmari Borno State, to the effect that the farmers ought to have obtained clearance…
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‘Why Boko Haram activities are on the rise’
A new regional research group, the Northeast Research Development and Consultative Forum (NRDCF), said on Thursday that its preliminary research systems have discovered why Boko Haram activities and other related crimes have been on the rise lately. President, NRDCF, Dr. Abubakar Kagu, disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja on the future of northeast…
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Message from the dead Borno farmers – Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene That the slain Borno farmers did not get military clearance is an inconvenient truth, but the real error of judgement was taking the government at its word. In his inaugural speech on May 29, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the military chiefs – the same military chiefs there today – to relocate to…
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Borno Killings: Calls for Buhari’s resignation cheap, irresponsible – Lai Mohammed
The Federal Government says the call, in some quarters, for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over the recent killing of farmers in Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists is “cheap and irresponsible’’. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, during a meeting with members of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN)…