The Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission and Benin have approved the deployment of national contingents to the Multinational Joint Task...
Sanusi Imran Abdullahi, head of the Lake Chad Basin Commission security grouping that includes Nigeria and nearby countries, on Wednesday said that the base of a...
Chiefs of defence staff from Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin met in Abuja on Tuesday to determine strategies for a new, African Union-backed regional force...
A new video released online by the Boko Haram terrorist group has a prominent missing item: the face of the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, who has...
As part of efforts to subdue the Boko Haram terrorist group, President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday and Thursday, visit Niger and Chad in his first...
Cameroonians contributed about three million euros plus hundreds of tonnes of food to help the country’s army battle the Boko Haram terrorist groups that has infiltrated...
President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari has expressed disappointment that the Nigerian military had to have the help of foreign mercenaries for it to record some successes in the...
“There is really no cause for alarm in the way some reports are presenting this situation as if it is a meaningful resurgence of terrorists. This...
Security sources on Friday said members of the Boko Haram terrorist group, who fled Sambisa forest, had now regrouped and recaptured Marte, a border town in...
Following the Thursday failed attack on the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army same day announced...
Mercenaries from South Africa have proved quietly decisive in helping the Nigerian military turn around its campaign against Boko Haram. With their roots in South Africa...
About 214 of the girls rescued from the Sambisa Forest of the Boko Haram sect were discovered to be visibly pregnant. This is according to Executive...
Pictures released of the women and children who were rescued by the military from the Boko Haram terrorist depicts captives who were starved, and living under...
While soldiers tried to dislodge the Boko Haram insurgents from their Sambisa Forest base, the terrorists stuck at Marte a border town in Borno State along...
In their final onslaught against the Boko Haram terrorist group, Nigerian forces were forced to make a retreat from the sect’s Sambisa Forest stronghold in the...
When Boko Haram attacked a school in the town of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria, kidnapping more than 200 girls, on the night of April 14, 2014,...
If the words of the National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) are anything to go by, then the incoming president, Muhammadu Buhari would not...
President-Elect, General Mohammadu Buhari has assured that his administration will do all it can to ensure that the over 200 girls kidnapped in Chibok, Borno State...
Nigeria’s President-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari must hit the ground running because the task ahead is legion. To several members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the...
Commendations have continued to pour in for Nigerians from various international bodies who have commended the peaceful conduct, and determination of Nigerians, in the Presidential and...
The Nigerian Military on Friday, announced that it has recaptured Gwoza, where the Boko Haram sect declared a caliphate last year. The Military announced on its...
The elections may not hold as scheduled, and if they do, the results may lead to violence, prompting anti-democratic forces, to stage a coup d’etat and...
In the face of imminent death, fleeing members of the Boko Haram terrorist sect slaughtered dozens of women whom they forcefully married, before a battle with...
I have often argued that the entire Nigerian political machinery that bears the name “government” is little more than an arrangement to enable a few individuals...
Elections may not hold in north east areas liberated from the Boko Haram insurgents by the military as government structures still need to be restored for...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that now the Boko Haram sect is being pounded by the multi-national military coalition is the best time to commence...
Patience Jonathan, aka Dame Patience, aka First Lady, aka Dr. Chief (Mrs.), aka Mama Peace, has emerged as the standard for Nigeria’s current political season—with all...
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy...
The case of mutiny against Brig. Gen. J.O. Komolafe, by a Military General Court Martial has been adjourned indefinitely, even as some the other military officers...
A toddler defied death on Saturday, when he survived in one of the multiple bomb blasts that killed about 90 people in Maiduguri, the Borno State...
For alleged negligence and complicity that led to the invasion of the 21 Artillery Brigade, Bama, by Boko Haram insurgents on September 2, 2014, the military...
The Nigerian military has been handling the Boko Haram sect with kid gloves, so as not to put the over 200 girls abducted from Government Secondary...
In its new-found vigour against the terrorist sect Boko Haram, the Nigerian military has so far succeeded in liberating over 30 communities in the North East...
In spite of controversy surrounding the state of his health, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Gen. Muhammadu Buhari gave his much anticipated speech...
The Nigerian military took delivery of two Boeing 747 jets fully loaded with ammunition that arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Wednesday evening. The...
More suicide bombings in Biu, Borno State, and Jos, Plateau State on Thursday has left about 35 people dead, with several others sustaining various degrees of...
President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday paid a surprise visit to Mubi, Adamawa State, and Baga, Borno State, some of the areas that were being terrorised by Boko...
In the wake of insurgency activities, and the Ebola disease virus that recently hit the West African sub region, leaders of the Central African countries have...
A Nigerian woman who has campaigned against Islamist extremists Boko Haram was on Tuesday awarded a Japanese peace prize worth $170,000. Esther Ibanga, a pastor and...
The recent postponement of the 2015 general elections by the Independent National Electric Commission (INEC) is threatening the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by...
A former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has warned that Nigeria is likely to experience large scale violence as a result of the upcoming...
President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerians to clearly differentiate between a thief and a corrupt official, noting that thieves are often referred to in the country...
Last week, Victor, a carpenter, came to my Lagos home to fix a broken chair. I asked him whom he preferred as Nigeria’s next president: the...
ABUJA — The presidential rally of the Peoples Democratic Party scheduled to hold in Damaturu, Yobe State has been cancelled. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the All...
ABUJA — FEDERAL Government, yesterday, expressed the possibility of recalling soldiers in the country’s peace keeping mission abroad to enhance the operational capability of the military...
Boko Haram has claimed a massive attack feared to be the worst in its six-year insurgency and threatened Nigeria’s neighbours, as talks began for a regional...
Authorities of the Nigerian Army have redeployed the Acting General Officer Commanding, 7th Infantry Division, Maiduguri, Maj.-Gen Mohammed Ibrahim. Until his redeployment, Ibrahim presided over the...
The United States government has thrown its weight behind the Federal Government to conduct this year’s general elections despite the fact that the country is facing...
Members of the extremist Boko Haram group are presently making efforts to take over Biu, the largest town in Southern Borno state, residents have said. An...
The Presidency on Friday insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan did not direct anybody to share money to the parents of the schoolgirls abducted in Chibok, Borno...
