Boko Haram fighters train with al-Qaeda’s North African branch in northern Mali, France’s Foreign Minister said yesterday. Citing documents recovered in the remote Ifoghas mountains in northern Mali, following the French intervention earlier this year, Laurent Fabius said Boko Haram’s presence there demonstrated the interconnection of jihadist groups in Africa. “This is a source of…
Nine suspected Boko Haram terrorists were Firday killed by the troops of the 7 Division, Nigerian Army in Rimanti Alagarno villages
Boko Haram is holding a French priest who was kidnapped in northern Cameroon, a source in the banned Nigerian Islamist group said on Friday, rejecting claims of a rift among the insurgents. “I can confirm that the French priest is in the hands of mujahideen (fighters) from Jamaat Ahl al-Sunna Li Da’wat al-Jihad, who carried…
Kingpin of the Boko Haram sect, Mustapher Umar, who had on April 26, 2012, bombed office of the Thisday Newspaper in Kaduna State with 12 camp gas cylinders, was yesterday, handed a life sentence by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Trial Justice Ademola Adeniyi in his judgment said he was convinced that the…
Yenagoa — As the 2015 general elections approach, the United States of America, yesterday, said it has rekindled its interest in the oil- rich Niger Delta region. Describing the region as the economic nerve centre of the country, the US Consular General in Nigeria, Mr. Jeffrey Hawkins, during his official visit to Bayelsa State, said…
LEGAL luminary and Chairman of The Patriots, Professor Ben Nwabueze (SAN), has thrown his weight behind President Gooduck Jonathan’s proposed national conference, saying that it could not be like the National Political Reforms Conference, NPRC, organised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2005. The elder statesman, who enumerated measures that can make the proposed conference…
More facts emerged yesterday on the reasons behind Wednesday’s designation of Boko Haram and Ansaru Islamic sects as Foreign Terrorist Organisations by the United States invoking section 219 of the National Immigration Act and section 1(b) of the Executive Order 13224, despite pressure from the Federal Government to do otherwise. According to diplomatic sources, the…
SUSPECTED members of Boko Haram terrorists have carried out a series of night attacks in Borno State causing havoc and killing 26 people in the process. This was even as reports emerged that the insurgents abducted a French Roman Catholic, Georges Vandenbeusch in northern Cameroon. Vandenbeusch, who moved to the area two years ago, was…
CHAIRMAN, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF and Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi will today lead other governors to Sokoto State for a two- day retreat. The governors who will arrive Sokoto State today under the auspices of Amaechi led Nigeria Governors’ Forum is expected to have in attendance all the thirty- Six governors, just as Governors…
Travellers to the South-East and parts of the South-South were, yesterday, put on the alert as the Police High command ordered an unprecedented three-day restriction of movement across AnambraState ahead of tomorrow’s gubernatorial election in the state. The extraordinary lockdown starting from dusk today is to be lifted by 6 p.m on Sunday, expectedly after…