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B/Haram: Terrorists Attack Village In Chibok, Kill 6

December 26, 2019 4:53 am

Boko Haram fighters have attacked Kwaranglum village in Borno State, killed six people and reportedly abducted two women.

Residents told NAN that the incident occurred on Christmas eve, throwing the whole community into pandemonium.

Kwaranglum is about a kilometre to Chibok town, Headquarters of Chibok Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State.

The state commissioner for poverty alleviation, Mr. Nuhu Clark, an indigene of the area, told newsmen that the Boko Haram insurgents invaded the village at sunset prayer time (around 6pm), and started shooting sporadically.

He said the insurgents burnt down a primary school and a large quantity of

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B/Haram: Army Confirms 32 Dead As Troops Clash In Yobe

December 24, 2019 1:58 pm

The troops of Sector 2 Operation LAFIYA DOLE in conjunction with the Air Task Force Operation LAFIYA DOLE delivered a humiliating defeat to a group of Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on 22nd December, 2019 during a massive failed attempt by the criminal insurgents to infiltrate Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.

A statement by Col. Aminu Iliyasu on Tuesday said, during the encounter, the resilient troops promptly mobilized and blocked the criminal insurgents’ advance along Gashua Road in the outskirts of Damaturu.

The statement said: “The troops thereafter engaged

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B/Haram: Kidnapped Victims Speak From Captivity [VIDEO]

December 16, 2019 2:18 pm

A college lecturer and 10 other persons who were recently kidnapped by Boko Haram have called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to come to their rescue.

This is coming barely 24hours after the execution of four aid workers by Boko Haram.

The captives include Christians and Muslims who were abducted along the Damaturu-Maiduguri highway.

In a short video uploaded by Ahmed Salkida, a journalist known to have access to Boko Haram leadership, one of the abductees, Bitrus Bwala, who identified himself as a principal lecturer at the College of Education Gashua, in Yobe State said they witnessed the recent killing …

B/Haram: NAF kills ISWAP Fighters, Destroys Meetings Venue

December 16, 2019 2:16 pm

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has neutralised some Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters at their hideout in Kollaram on the fringes of Lake Chad in the Northern part of Borno.

NAF said the insurgents were obliterated as they assembled for a meeting at the same area.

Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja.

Daramola said the operation was conducted through the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE on Saturday.

” The operation …

B/Haram: Northern Leaders React To Execution Of Aid Workers

December 16, 2019 4:30 am

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has condemned in strong terms the killing of aid workers by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno.

The aid workers were abducted by terrorists in July 2019 on their way to a remote community in the northeast to provide humanitarian support to victims of Boko Haram violence.

A statement by ACF National Publicity Secretary, Muhammad Ibrahim, in Kaduna on Sunday, said ACF was shocked and saddened by the sad news of yet another killing of four aid workers including a woman by the Boko Haram terrorists in Borno.

“It would be recalled that sometimes last year …

B/Haram: Buhari Reacts To Execution Of Aid Workers In Borno

December 14, 2019 5:52 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the execution of four aid workers by Boko Haram in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno.

The four men were among the six aid workers who were abducted on 26 July when their convoy came under attack near Damasak, in the Mobbar LGA.

They were working on a health project implemented by the INGO Action Against Hunger. One of the drivers was killed during the attack and another was reportedly executed on 24 September 2019.

Buhari in a statement signed and forwarded to DAILY POST by Special Adviser on …

Army: Video Of B/Haram Killing Soldiers Fabricated By IPOB

December 12, 2019 11:41 am

PRESS RELEASE

VIDEO CLIP PORTRAYING THE ALLEGE CAPTURE AND KILLING OF SOME NIGERIAN SOLDIERS BY BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS ON 10 DECEMBER 2019 IS FALSE

The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a viral, unsubstantiated and apparently fabricated video clip circulating on the social media portraying the stage managed/so called capture and killing of some Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram terrorists on the 10th of December 2019.

The Nigerian Army wishes to emphatically state that there was no incident that involved the “capture and killing of tens and tens of Nigerian soldiers on the 10th of December 2019” …