The UN Security Council has approved sanctions against the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, five weeks after it kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls. It will now be added to a list of al-Qaeda-linked organisations subject to an arms embargo and … Read more →
In my capacity as Chair of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State, I have recently consulted with the presidents of our member nations regarding the horrific kidnapping of nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls. From those conversations came the collective decision … Read more →
Nigeria has insisted it will not agree to a request to free imprisoned Islamic militants in return for the release of dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls. Interior Minister Abba Moro said Boko Haram, the group holding the girls, was in no … Read more →
Some Muslim clerics in Tamale have pledged their unflinching commitment to resist the infiltration of any form of religious fundamentalism within the Muslim Ummah in the area. They condemned the activities of the so-called Muslim sect Boko Haram, whose criminal … Read more →
A new video released by Islamist militants Boko Haram claims to show around 100 girls kidnapped from a school in Nigeria last month. The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, said they would be held until all imprisoned militants had been freed. … Read more →
Another member of the dreaded Boko Haram sect allegedly confessed at Nigerian Pastor T.B. Joshua’s church today, stating that he was being paid N2,000,000 to bomb churches. Nearing the end of the service, during the time Joshua’s ‘Wise Men’ were minisring ‘deliverance’ to people, … Read more →
There were indications yesterday that the 230 female students abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from the Government Girls’ Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno State, have been sited at the Sambisa Forest in Borno State, by the Special Forces of the … Read more →
US Marines currently in Nigeria to help the government combat Boko Haram terrorists have made their first arrests taking two male suspects into custody after they were found in possession of arms and ammunition during a targeted search. Over … Read more →
One of the victims of Nigeria’s mass schoolgirl abduction escaped by jumping from the truck that was driving her away and clinging to the branch of an overhanging tree, her relatives revealed on Wednesday. Monday Yuguda, 16, seized her moment … Read more →
President John Dramani Mahama has arrived in Nigeria to confer with his Nigerian counterpart, Goodluck Jonathan on the way forward in the current security situation of Nigeria. President Mahama who is visiting Nigeria in his capacity as ECOWAS Chairman will … Read more →