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By Olusegun Adeniyi If there is any development that depicts the state of affairs in our country today, it is what happened last week following the coordinated attacks by Boko Haram on police, army and prison formations in Bama, Borno … read more »
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Tagged Anambra State, bokoharam, Borno State, Damaturu, IndepthAfrica, Nasarawa State, Nigeria, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yobe State
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By Chibuzo Ukaibe,Leadership (Abuja) The 36 governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) yesterday asked President Goodluck Jonathan not to yield to the agitation for a declaration of state of emergency in troubled states in the country. … read more »
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Tagged Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan, IndepthAfrica, Nasarawa State, Nigeria, Nigerian, rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi, state of emergency, Yobe State
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AP MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Authorties in Nigeria say at least 11 people have been killed in violence blamed on Islamic insurgents in the country’s northeast. One attack happened Wednesday night in the fishing village of Gashua in Yobe state. Teacher … read more »
The current Nigerian ruler, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan continues not to “give a damn” in his inconsiderate decisions since coming to office in 2011. Now, it appears he is about to make what is sure to become the most inconsiderate of … read more »
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Tagged bokoharam, Goodluck Jonathan, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Jonathan, Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, Osama bin Laden, Yobe State
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The Senior Special Assistant for Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe on Wednesday said it is too early to ask for amnesty for members of the extremist group, Boko Haram. Mr Okupe, who was a guest on Channels … read more »
By Mahmud Jega, Daily Trust column It could well be that President Goodluck Jonathan woke up in a foul mood this morning, as he has probably did for three days since his return from a momentous visit to Yobe and … read more »
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WALKING WOUNDED: The shocking disfigurement and crippling effect of polio in Nigeria. Source: The Courier-Mail THEY have been dubbed heroes. As gunmen rained bullets on their clinic, shooting their colleagues in cold blood, they lay still on the floor pretending … read more »
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18 year old Ibrahim Mohammed Alilullah of Ilobu village in Ilobu LGA of Osun state and 50 year old yam hawker from Jalingo in Taraba state, Mohammed Ibrahim Idris, were on Friday paraded by the Department of State Security Service, … read more »
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OTTAWA – A spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird strongly condemned terrorist attacks in Nigeria that killed 12 people attending Christmas services. “We strongly condemn such despicable and cowardly attacks,” Baird’s press secretary, Rick Roth, told QMI Agency on … read more »
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Tagged bokoharam, Christmas, christmas mass attack, John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada), Nigeria, Nigerian news, Potiskum, Quebecor Media, Yobe State
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KANO, Nigeria — Gunmen attacked a church in volatile northern Nigeria during a Christmas Eve service, killing six people including the pastor, before setting the building ablaze, residents and police said Tuesday, as the pope deplored “savage acts of terrorism” … read more »
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Kano – Gunmen with explosives attacked a police station, a primary school and two cellphone towers in a town in Nigeria’s restive northeast early on Sunday and set them ablaze, the military and residents said. “We heard that there were … read more »
KANO, Nigeria — Nigerian authorities on Monday slapped a 15-hour daily curfew on a northeastern city where unrest blamed on Islamist extremists has killed at least 31 people in recent days. Yobe State Governor Ibrahim Gaidam “has approved the imposition … read more »
KANO, Nigeria — Nigeria’s military said Monday it has killed 35 suspected Boko Haram Islamists in a crackdown on the insurgent group in the northeastern city of Damaturu. “The Joint Task Force has succeeded in killing 35 Boko Haram terrorists … read more »
strategypage A major reason for the support Islamic terror group Boko Haram receives in the north is the widespread belief that the Moslem north is not getting its fair share of the oil income. This has always been a contentious … read more »
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Police authority have confirmed that six soldiers and two civilians died during a suicide bomb attack Sunday on a military post in the Nigeria northeast city of Damaturu by suspected Boko Haram bomber. Yobe state commissioner of police Patrick Egbuniwe … read more »
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A top Muslim traditional leader in northeastern Nigeria escaped a suicide attack on Friday, when the bomber was thwarted by local people before blowing himself up, residents said. Several people were wounded in the blast outside the main mosque after … read more »
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KANO, Nigeria — Suspected members of radical Islamist group Boko Haram attacked a police building in restive northern Nigeria on Monday but the assault was repelled, a police spokesman said. Boko Haram Islamists have carried out waves of such attacks … read more »
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Explosions and gunfire rocked Nigeria’s restive northeastern city of Damaturu on Friday, police said, in an area plagued by repeated attacks by Boko Haram Islamists. “There have been huge explosions and sporadic gunfire around (the) Shagari Low Cost area of … read more »
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ABUJA — Attackers killed nine construction workers early Monday in the restive northeastern city of Maiduguri, the base of the Islamist Boko Haram sect, the army said. The victims, working at Shehu of Borno’s Central Mosque in the city, were … read more »
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LAGOS: Nigeria’s rebel sect Boko Haram stormed a prison in their northeastern heartland on Sunday, freeing 40 inmates, police said, in the latest of a string of attacks blamed on the group. “There was an attack on the Yobe prison … read more »
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Lagos – Nigerian troops have arrested a suspect in the Christmas Day bombings that killed at least 44 people, state television reported, as Washington put three Boko Haram leaders on its global terror list. In the northern State of Kaduna … read more »
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Potiskum – Crowds of protesters took to the streets of the Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday over a deadly market attack last week, with a church and classrooms burnt and police firing tear gas. More than a thousand protesters, … read more »
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants stormed a prison in their northeastern heartland on Friday, killing two guards and freeing the inmates, police said, in the latest in a surge of attacks blamed on the Islamist group. A police spokesman for Borno … read more »
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Abuja – A Nigerian hospital has received 56 bodies from an attack on a cattle market in the remote northeast overnight, a hospital nurse who gave his name as Babangida told Reuters by telephone. Gunmen opened fire on a cattle … read more »
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IT was definitely a Black Sunday, February 26, for the people of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, as a bomb wrecked havoc at the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) Headquarters. According to eye witnesses, the explosive-laden car was said to … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Boko Haram, IndepthAfrica, Jos, Kaduna, Nigeria, Plateau State, Solomon Lar, Special Task Force, Yobe State
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Maiduguri – A local official says that gunmen suspected to be members of a radical Islamic sect opened fire at a policeman and his family, killing the policeman’s 6-year-old daughter. Yobe State police spokesperson Toyin Gbadegeshin said that the policeman’s … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Boko Haram, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Police officer, Potiskum, Yobe State
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KANO, Nigeria — Suspected members of Islamist group Boko Haram attacked three police stations in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, burning two of them down in the latest of scores of such assaults, police said. It was not yet clear if … read more »
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Tagged Boko Haram, Islamism, Kano, Nigeria, Police station, Potiskum, Yobe State
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Police in northern Nigeria say suspected members of a radical Islamist sect have shot dead eight people, including four police officers. The attack happened late Tuesday at a bar in the town of Potiskum in Yobe state, and authorities blamed … read more »
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Nigeria’s Intersociety Speaks On The Horrible State Of Affairs In Nigeria: With 215 Nigerians Killed Unlawfully In Two Weeks, In Addition To 54.000 Killed Since 1999: Nigeria Is Close To Rwandan Genocide & Somali Balkanization Except Doctrine Of Necessity Intervenes … read more »
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Maiduguri – Police say three people were killed in attacks by a feared sect despite a state of emergency in areas of northeast Nigeria. Borno state police chief Simeone Midenda said on Wednesday that two suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot … read more »
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