A source in the state Emirate Council, confirmed the killing of the district head and his son to journalists, stating that the victims died on the spot due to excessive bleeding from gunshots wound.
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In a statement signed by the JTF spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, the task force said it also recovered a cache of arms and ammunitions from the terrorist’s hideout
A security source said Niger’s army has deployed reinforcements along its border with Nigeria, a focus of worry for Nigerien authorities who have often assured they are taking measures to stop Boko Haram’s activities from spilling over into Niger.
Late on Saturday night, residents say a group of men went from house to house in a largely Christian area of the remote village of Chibok, before slitting the throats of 10 people
The redeployment of Kure and Isa is coming less than one week after two bombs went off inside the school’s premises
No time in the history of Nigeria has the church faced the level of persecution it is currently going through. For about two years now, hundreds of Christians have been killed and tens of churches destroyed
The factory, located in Zaria, Kaduna State, operated from a two-bedroom bungalow, according to information made available by the military
This was in response to the attack on the headquarters of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Abuja on Monday morning
They equally destroyed the masts belonging to major telecommunications firms – MTN, Glo and Airtel
In the video, Shekau was reported to have saluted fighters in the Maghreb region of North Africa
Oritsejafor said the move is in addition to pressure being mounted on the Nigerian Government to classify Boko Haram as a terrorist organization
In a statement on Wednesday, the spokesman of the Joint Task Force in Borno State, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, said the military, acting on information, carried out a cordon and search operation at Bulabulin Ganram area of Maiduguri Metropolis, with the suspected Boko Haram members resisting the move
The JTF, said the storage facility, located in Damaturu, Yobe State, was discovered during a cordon and search operation
Abdulazeez was the sect member who set the initial conditions for dialogue with the Federal Government
The spokesman of Borno State Police Command, Gideon Jibrin, confirmed the incidents
The death toll from Sunday’s double bomb attack on the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State has risen to 15, just as information filtered in that a senior military staff of the institution, an Air Commodore, is still in coma following injuries he sustained during the attack
The police also said that 30 of those being detained at the SARS headquarters were freed during the attack, confirming speculations that the attackers were there to free the detainees
The only child who survived the attack, was said to have escaped unhurt as the gunmen opened fire on the Christian family as they headed for church on Sunday
While worshippers were struggling to get out of the church after the first blast, another bomb reportedly went off, leading to chaos
The offer, contained in a statement by the spokesperson of the military outfit in Borno State, the Joint Task Force, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, placed a N50 million tag on Shekau