A report released by Save the Children International (SCI) has revealed that about 70 schools were attacked and 1,683 school children kidnapped across Nigeria between Feb 2014 and Dec. 2022. The report is entitled, “Education Under Attack: Review and Analysis of Attack on Schools, Teachers, and Learners from...
Boko Haram Terrorists
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has received another Chibok girl, Rebecca Magu, abducted by Boko Haram insurgents alongside 275 of her schoolmates while sitting for the Secondary School Certificate Examination in 2014 at GSS Chibok. Governor Zulum has assured that the State...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Troops of Operation HADIN KAI have arrested a former soldier suspected to be supplying weapons to Boko Haram members in Bauchi State. The Nigeria Army authority disclosed this on Friday in its ‘Report On Joint Task Force Operational Activities. “On 18 July...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, deserves the fullest protection of the law as a Nigerian citizen. Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja while reacting to the recent...
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is calling for an investigation into the reported terrorist attack on its presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in Yola, Adamawa. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, made the call in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja. Ologunagba said that the PDP...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – Four suspected members of the Boko Haram terrorist group have been apprehended by the Police in Yola, for attempting to attack the residence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The arrest of the four suspects was confirmed by the Atiku Media Office in a...
The Multi National Joint Task Force is unable to sustain large-scale operations against the Islamic State of the West African Province(ISWAP), due to inadequate, inconsistent, and insufficient funding. Amb. Mamman Nuhu, Executive Secretary, Lake Chad Basin Commission and Head of Mission, of the MNJTF, made this known on Wednesday...
The cessation of abduction incidents and other violence perpetrated by terrorist groups on the Abuja-Kaduna highway is due to the efforts of a security panel raised by the immediate-past Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Leo Irabor, according to PRNigeria report. Recalled that armed bandits and Boko Haram...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, says the state government would beef up security for her citizens particularly farmers and ensure the remaining terrorists are eliminated from the state. Governor Zulum stated this while reacting to the brutal killing of eight farmers by suspected...
Defence Headquarters says the military has eliminated several Boko Haram and Islamic States of West Africa (ISWAP) terrorists in both land and air operations in North East, in last two weeks. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, made the disclosure on Thursday in Abuja at the bi-weekly...
Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) has advised President Bola Tinubu to tackle insecurity and other vices in the country. President of ECWA, Rev. Stephen Baba-Panya, gave the advice in a statement issued in Jos on Monday to commemorate the 2023 Democracy Day. Baba-Panya, who decried the spate of killings,...
Some stakeholders in North East have commended the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for degrading insurgents and improving security situation in the region. A cross section of the stakeholders who spoke to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states known as the worst affected states...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The fight against oil theft and other criminal elements in the South-South zone of the country has continued to yield results as troops of the Armed Forces of Nigeria have, in the last two weeks, recovered 551,500 litres of crude oil and 394,500 litres...
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, on Friday, declared that human rights violations allegations levelled against the Nigerian military by Reuters, were not only shocking but also spurious. Irabor said this when he appeared before the National Human Rights Commission investigative panel on rights violations in counter-insurgency...
The Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS), on Monday in Abuja emphasised the need for urgent actions against the increased terrorist activities in the Central Sahel. The ECOWAS Commissioner in charge of Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Amb. AbdelFateh Moussa, made the call at a five-day training. It...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – In their sustained efforts aimed at addressing the various security challenges across the country, troops of the Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies neutralized a total of 71 Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists and other criminal elements, arrested 99 others and recovered 40 AK47...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has solicited for the support of the participants of Course 16, National Institute for Security Studies (NISS) in the ongoing deradicalization and Reintegration (DDR) of over 80,000 surrendered Boko Haram members who are mostly camped at a designated centres...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Abdulkareem Lawan has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for postponing the National Population and Housing Census scheduled for May 2023. He said the postponement became imperative following the displacement of many people from Borno...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, rejected Tukur Mamu’s bail application. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, held that he took note of the averments in paragraphs 3 (i), (j), (k), (1), and (m) of the counter-affidavit of the Department of State Services (DSS) which were not controverted...
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has asserted that Nigerians should not hold the President Muhammadu Buhari administration responsible for not rescuing all the kidnapped Chibok Girls. It is like a self-accounting when you are exiting a position of public office to be humble...