Tag: boko haram

As parties are getting set to produce their candidates, we feel the need to reproduce this write-up, first published on October 18 last year. If...

In the book The Impact of Banditry on Nigeria’s Security in the Fourth Republic: An Evaluation of Nigeria’s Northwest by Rosenje, Musharafa Olapeju (PhD) and Adeniyi,...

By SUMAILA OGBAJE Abuja- The Unity Advocacy Group has lauded the acknowledgement of the successes recorded by the Military in the ongoing fight against insecurity...

By HAMZA SULEIMAN Maiduguri- The Troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) have killed about 22 Boko Haram/Islamic State of the West African Province...

In the auspicious season of Easter, Mathew Hassan Kukah, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, delivered a message to his congregation, which...

Make of the following what you will and work out the implications.   Of the 13 leaders that have led our country since 1960 seven...

In 2005, a US National Intelligence Council paper “Mapping Sub-Saharan Africa’s Future” floated the idea there could be a military coup in Nigeria. At...

ABUJA - The Muhammadu Buhari Administration on Sunday attributed the delayed delivery of 12 Super Tucano jet fighters for the Nigerian Air Force to...

This is the concluding part of this write up, having done parts one and two a few weeks earlier. “When that is not the case,...

I believe Nigerians should no longer accept to be fooled by those who use their sentiments to get into office. We must not forget...

First, they came for the Communists And I did not speak out  Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not...

Boko Haram fighters have ambushed and killed scores of Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, terrorists in a renewed 'war of supremacy' between...

Gallant soldiers of the Multinational Joint Task Force have killed many terrorists along Nigeria /Cameroon borders. The incident according to the army took...

Nasir El-Rufai, the Kaduna State Governor, has disclosed that investigation revealed some serving police and military officers have links with bandits terrorising the state...

“The northwest’s problem is not ungoverned spaces as wonks like to say, but spaces governed by criminal sovereigns.” - James Barnett Bandits, Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah...

According to a report by SaharaReporters, the family of one of the soldiers killed in the decade-old war against Boko Haram fighters, Abdullahi Bhuwa...

Over 8,000 girls and boys have been recruited and used as child soldiers in different roles by armed groups across Nigeria, The United Nations...

It is not very often that you get to read about the extraordinary exploits of Nigerian troops at the theatres of ongoing war against...

Two markets have been opened by the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Borno State. SaharaReporters gathered...

The Borno State Commissioner of Police, Abdul Umar, has confirmed the attack on Police Mobile Training College, Gwoza by Boko Haram fighters. The police chief...