Tired of killing innocent people, and destroying property, eight members of the Boko Haram terrorist group, have renounced their membership of the sect, in Mussa town...
Immediate past Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah has noted that the elite are to blame for whatever show of strength being displayed...
Indications emerged on Tuesday that the terrorist group Boko Haram are willing to make peace and stop the carnage in the north east part of the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed confidence that the coming on board of the Multi National Joint Task Force which has been established under the auspices of...
The fear to ensure that Nigeria’s military do not become too strong to overthrow regimes may have led successive administrations in the country to neglect it,...
Major General Iliya Abbah has been named the new commander of the regional multinational task force to fight Boko Haram Islamists. Nigerian military spokesman Major General...
Ahead of talks on how to tackle the Boko Haram terrorist group that has been plaguing both countries, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday arrived Cameroon for...
The World Bank unveiled a plan to grant Nigeria a $2.1 billion loan to rebuild infrastructure in the Boko Haram ravaged North Eastern zone. The plan,...
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has condemned the Thursday siege of the Abuja and Sokoto residences of the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA) Col...
A number of people, many of them civil servants, are feared dead in a bomb explosion that went off this morning at the Government lodge, located in...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has broken his silence since leaving office on May 29, with a plea today that Nigerians should continue to support and pray...
In efforts to find a lasting solution to the menace posed by the Boko Haram terrorist group, which has led to the death of thousands of...
More than 22 women and girls recruited as suicide bombers by the Boko Haram terrorist sect have voluntarily submitted themselves for rehabilitation under a de-radicalisation programme...
More than 277 soldiers arrested in the last six months in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, for various offences in the fight against Boko Haram sect...
Rumours that the authorities were planning to relocate terror suspects, mostly members of the Boko Haram sect, from detention facilities in north east parts of the...
The Federal government said on Wednesday that it had commenced investigations into the accusations of human rights abuses leveled against the Nigerian military by the international...
An attack by the Boko Haram terrorist sect in Niger Republic on Wednesday night has left about 38 people dead. A member of the local parliament,...
Troops in the front-line of the fight against the Boko Haram sect, on Thursday got a morale booster, when the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General...
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...