Tag: boko haram
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Kuje prison break: NCoS releases full list of 69 fleeing inmates
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has released the names of the 69 inmates who escaped from the Kuje Custodial Centre in Abuja during the Tuesday night attack by terrorists. The Service has accordingly declared the 69 suspects wanted and appealed to the public to volunteer information that could lead to their recapture.
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Matawalle’s Guns – By Azu Ishiekwene
Nigeria is awash with arms – guns, bullets, charms, drugs and local stuff. Not just Nigeria. The entire Sahelian and sub-Saharan African region is drowning in deadly small arms and light weapons – so-called because of their portability and ease of use and adaptation.
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Terrorists group, ISWAP releases video of attack on Kuje Prisons
The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) has claimed responsibility for the attack on Kuje Prison in Abuja. Recall that suspected gunmen broke into the prison, on Tuesday night, and released over 800 inmates, including high-profile suspects.
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Kuje jailbreak: President Buhari queries prison’s intelligence
President Muhammadu Buhari has queried why the intelligence and defence systems around the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje failed to work after suspected Boko Haram terrorists successfully attacked the prison facility. According to a statement by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity, Buhari, like most Nigerians, was shocked by both the scale…
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JUST IN: President Buhari visits Kuje prison
President Muhammadu Buhari visited the Kuje Custodial Centre in the federal capital territory (FCT) on Wednesday, following a suspected Boko Haram attack on the correctional facility. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports President Buhari was received by the Inspector General of Police IGP Usman Baba Alkali, paramilitary service chiefs among other top government officials at the facility.
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BREAKING: All Boko Haram suspects in Kuje prison escaped – Defence Minister
Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi has said all Boko Haram suspects detained in the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre, Abuja have escaped. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Magashi made this known on Wednesday while addressing journalists after taking an assessment tour of the facility, following Tuesday night’s attack.
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CHIBOK: How an old man helped me to escape, after eight years as wife of Boko Haram commander- Mary
The two Chibok schoolgirls that escaped from the Sambisa Forest camp of their Boko Haram captors, after eight years as wives of top commanders of the deadly terrorists, have recounted their ordeal in the camp, and how they fled, risking their lives, and landed in the hands of troops, who rescued them. It would be…
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20 missing Chibok Girls still in Sambisa Forest – Rescued girls
Mary Dauda and Hauwa Joseph, the two rescued girls abducted from the GGSS Chibok in Borno in 2014, have revealed that more than 20 missing others are still in Gazuwa camp in Sambisa Forest, eight years after being kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents. Gazuwa camp is acclaimed Headquarters of the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād,…
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The world and Nigeria’s 2023 elections – By Dakuku Peterside
Nigerians look forward to the 2023 elections for many reasons: crippling insecurity, lawlessness, floundering economy, perennial suboptimal social services, and an obfuscate desire to hope for a better future. Most Nigerians look forward to having a president with the magic wand to tackle these socio-economic challenges and a leader that will set the country on…
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BREAKING: 204 Boko Haram terrorists surrender in Borno [PHOTOS]
About 204 Boko Haram terrorists and their family members have surrendered to troops of Operation Hadin Kai in Bama Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the Nigerian Army made this known on Wednesday, revealing that profiling of the surrendered Boko Haram terrorists was ongoing.