Boko Haram
At least 10 soldiers have been killed and some others injured by bandits proscribed as terrorists who attacked a military base in Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The incident happened at about 6:30pm on Monday, security sources told Channels Television. However, the military authorities have yet to confirm the attack. Birnin-Gwari is one of […]
Nigerian troops are ready to partner with Cameroonian and Chadian soldiers to end the insurgency. Addressing troops at the Army Supercamp 1 Ngamdu in Yobe, the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, reaffirmed his commitment to end insurgency and restore normalcy to the North-East and the entire country. Attahiru said the successes recorded […]
Some Nigerian soldiers wounded during encounters with the Boko Haram insurgents in the North East are determined to return to the battlefield until the insurgents are defeated. The soldiers made the pledge yesterday, when the Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, paid a fact-finding visit to the 7 Division Medical Services and Hospital in […]
Nigerian Army yesterday handed over eighty Six children used as child soldiers by the Boko Haram insurgents to the Borno state government. A statement by Defence Headquarters’ spokesperson, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, said the children were handed over to the state government by the Operation Safe Corridor. According to Onyema , the child fighters who voluntarily […]
Ten suspected key Boko Haram members at Bitta in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno have met their waterloo, while attempting to escape the onslaught of Nigerian Army troops on them. A statement by the Nigerian Army Operations Media Coordinator, Colonel Aminu Iliyasu, issued in Abuja, noted that the ten suspects were captured during the operation, […]
SPEAKER Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure the freedom of the rest of the Chibok girls still in Boko Haram captivity and Leah Sharibu, the Christian girl still held by the insurgents before the general election. Dogara and other members of the House were reportedly […]
BENUE Benue State Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Reverend Akpen Leva, has said that herdsmen incursions in the state has led to the destruction of more than five hundred churches in parts of the state. Reverend Leva, who spoke in Makurdi, said the destruction which cuts across Catholic, Pentecostal, Anglican and several other […]
DAPCHI Parents of the missing schoolgirls from Chibok town in Borno State will tomorrow visit Dapchi town to express sympathy with parents of the one hundred and ten schoolgirls abducted by insurgents last month. It was gathered that the visit was essentially to sympathize with parents of the recently abducted schoolgirls from Government Girls’ Science […]
BOKO HARAM The Nigerian government is set to release about ninety five former Boko Haram terrorists after series of training, vocational skills acquisition and rehabilitation courses. The repentant terrorists were trained by the Nigerian Army wing charged with the responsibility of Deracialising, Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Gombe State. The commandant of the camp, Colonel Adegoke […]
SOLDIERS The police have nabbed two soldiers who deserted the army while attempting to cross the border to Republic of Niger in a stolen unregistered navy blue Ford pick-up truck. The suspects, identified as Abubakar Ibrahim and Jaduwa Thalma, were said to have deserted the military during an operation against the Boko Haram insurgents in […]
