“As soon as the equipments come in, we will launch a major offensive toward ending this madness of insurgency in the North East of the country
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In a post on the Twitter handle of the Defence Headquarters, the military said it was firmly in control of Gwoza, a town in Borno State that Shekau claimed had come under its control
Ojukwu said following this development, the Acting Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has ordered a security beef-up in all police formations and facilities
Pulka, about 20 kilometres from destroyed Gwoza town, which is also located between Borno State and Cameroon Republic, is surrounded by the Mandara Mountains
Thousands have been killed across north-eastern Nigeria since Boko Haram launched its violent campaign for an Islamic state in 2009
According to sources, the disabled young man was reportedly moving suspiciously along the airport road leading to the international wing of the airport, when private security officials on guard arrested him
It said the DSS threw caution to the wind and exhibited partisanship when the agency’s spokesperson, Ogar, said on national television that anytime the APC wins an election, there is no bomb blast, but that whenever other parties win, there is always a bomb blast
The kidnappings in Borno State come four months after Boko Haram, which is fighting to reinstate a medieval Islamic caliphate in religiously mixed Nigeria, abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok, also in Borno State
Speaking at a media interaction organised by INigerian Initiative, a non-governmental organisation active in the redefinition of Nigerians’ perception of their country, Olukolade insisted that either in hardware or in training, men and officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces have everything it takes to combat the current enemy
The statement, signed by Solomon Dalung and Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, lamented the increasing wave of insecurity, expressing reservation that it poses serious threat to the survival of the nation as well as the conduct of credible elections in 2015
Members of Boko Haram of recent were said to have first stormed Gwoza on August 5, 2014, slaughtering people from house to house and abandoning their corpses on the streets
Scores of soldiers have been killed by Boko Haram in Borno State in the last few months, and many blame the inferior weapons Nigerian troops are equipped with to fight brutal insurgents
The heavily armed gunmen arrived in a pick-up truck and on motorcycles at around 2pm local time (1300 GMT) and stormed the house of a local chief, kidnapping one of his children and stealing a car, an army commander told state radio.
It is an increasingly disquieting and disturbing twist to the war against terror
The advert sponsor made dramatic allusions, suggesting that the reality of terror attacks on Nigeria was because the Peoples Democratic Party is the government at the centre
According to the statement, Switzerland stated clearly and repeatedly that it refuses to pay ransoms to terrorists and urged all states to follow its example
The Nigerian authorities said such barbarity had no place in the military and promised to investigate
A police sergeant, attached to the state police command headquarters, said when the sound of the burst tyre was heard, the thinking was that Boko Haram had struck
I felt it was necessary for us, as journalists, to reveal the fact: that it was a bomb blast that occurred at Creek Road and with that galvanize citizens in Lagos State to become vigilant and security conscious
The bombings of the Mega Station of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the one close to Shoprite Shopping Mall, and the last one at the Kano State Polytechnic, all in Kano city, Kano State, were carried out by young female bombers