Tag: Boko Haram
Don Jazzy gives kudos to soldiers fighting Boko Haram
Music producer, Michael Ajereh, popularly known as Don Jazzy, has praised the bravery and courage of Nigerian soldiers fighting the insurgency.
The 37-year-old acknowledged their...
Nigerian soldiers ambush 20 Boko Haram fighters in Borno – Official
No less than 20 Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province, (ISWAP) fighters have been killed in Baga town in Borno, Defence...
Leah Sharibu clocks 17 in Boko Haram captivity
Leah Sharibu, a female student of Government Girls Science and Technical Secondary School, Dapchi, kidnapped by Boko Haram on February 19, 2018, on Thursday...
Nigerians attack people asking for evidence of 105 Boko Haram fighters...
Nigerians on Twitter have knocked people asking for pictorial evidence of the military’s claim that 105 Boko Haram insurgents were killed during its operations...
Buratai relocates to northeast as Chad ‘kills’ 1,000 Boko Haram fighters
Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says he has relocated to the North East to oversee and direct the overall operation in the...
Chad president leads troops in destroying Boko Haram bases
President Idriss Déby of Chad accompanied troops on Saturday
in the destruction of five bases of the Boko Haram terror group.
The bombardment followed a seven-hour...
Army redeploys General Adeniyi who asked for weapons to fight Boko...
The Nigerian Army has appointed Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya as the new Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD) to take over from the erstwhile...
Top Boko Haram commander, Abu Usamah, ‘killed’ in Borno
A top commander of Boko Haram, Abu Usamah, has been killed by troops in Gorgi, Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State, the military...
Boko Haram kills 50 Nigerian soldiers in deadly ambush
No less than 50 Nigerian
soldiers have been killed in an ambush by Boko Haram fighters near
Goneri village in Yobe State.
Defence ministry spokesman, John Enenche,...
Mothers of abducted Chibok girls write letter to world’s powerful women
Mothers of the remaining 112 Chibok girls still in Boko
Haram captivity have called on the Federal Government and the world’s most
powerful women to intensify...