Insecurity: FG Has Capacity To Crush Terrorists, Bandits – Lai Mohammed

Bandits

This comes as security forces struggle with the activities of terrorists and bandits who have killed thousands, displaces hundreds of thousands and abducted several people for ransom The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Tuesday said the Federal Government has the capacity to crush Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists in the northeast and bandits in … Read more

Soldiers, Officer Killed As Boko Haram Overruns Borno Military Base

An undisclosed number of soldiers and a officer have paid the supreme after the marauding Islamic State of West Africa Province terrorists launched devastating offensive on a military formation in the  Borno state According to HumAngle, The insurgents, who are grounded in attacking military installations, launched the attack in the new Marte town around the … Read more

The ‘Lake Chad’ Gets New ISWAP ‘Governor’

The Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP), a factional Boko Haram sect, has appointed Aliyu Chakkar as its new “governor of the Lake Chad”. According to TheCable, Chakkar will be replacing Goni Maina, the former commander who died on December 1 in an air raid jointly carried out by the Nigerian army and the air … Read more

Terrorists Kidnap Groom, Best Man In Borno – Report

Gunmen, Robbers

Terrorists have kidnapped two aid workers in Nigeria’s restive northeast Borno State as they were returning from a wedding, humanitarian and security sources said Saturday. The two were identified as an employee of UN World Food Programme, who had just attended his wedding, and a colleague from the International Committee of the Red Cross who … Read more

Military Offensive On Boko Haram Camps Leaves Scores Dead

The Nigerian military launched a devastating onslaught on identified hideouts of factional Boko Haram, Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists, which resulted in deaths of scores of the insurgents. The hideouts which are in Tundun Wulgo and Tumbun Gini, on the fringes of the Lake Chad in Borno State, were bombarded by airstrikes. … Read more

Nigerian Army Suffers Heavy Casualties As Troops Run Into ISWAP Ambush

US, UK Troops Among 3 Dead In Rocket Attack In Iraq: US Official

Insurgents also carted away ammunitions – source Over ten soldiers were killed  The war against insurgency loses momentum and thus suffers setback after after troops ran into an ambush by suspected members of the Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) who attacked Garin Giwa village in Kukawa local government area of Borno state. Military sources … Read more

ISWAP Attacks Lake Chad, Kills 14 Villagers

Jihadists have killed 14 people on a Cameroonian island on Lake Chad near the border with Nigeria after their town decided to block food supplies to the insurgents, security sources said Thursday, August 27. Fighters from the so-called Islamic State West Africa Province landed on the island of Bulgaram aboard speedboats from an enclave on … Read more

Atiku Wants ‘Secret Burial’ Of 1,000 Soldiers Killed By Boko Haram Probed

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the reported secret burial of 1,000 Nigerian soldiers killed by Boko Haram and ISWAP. A statement he signed Thursday said the Wall Street Journal report on the matter was saddening and that the attempt to hide the true … Read more