Boko Haram

Senate Task NEDC To Rebuild Religious Buildings

February 25, 2020 9:53 am
Following the wanton destruction of religious and public institutions by the Boko Haram insurgents across the Northeast, Senate on Tuesday adopted a motion asking the North East Development Commission (NEDC), to embark on reconstruction and rehabilitation.

The decision followed a point of order by Senator Aisha Dahiru Ahmed Binani representing Adamawa Central Senatorial district, explaining that attacks being orchestrated by insurgents still continue unabated.

She pointed out that the Boko Haram attack on Garkida in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State on Sunday has left much to be desired, while calling on government’s intervention to mitigate the pains

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Senior Pastor Adewale Giwa

Pastor Giwa Begs Trump To Save Nigerians From Buhari

February 25, 2020 7:07 am

Senior Pastor Adewale Giwa of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ Ministry released a three-page letter to the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, asking him to save Nigeria from President Muhammadu Buhari and Boko Haram.

The open letter is a response to the Boko Haram rehabilitation agency bill being sponsored at the National Assembly. The pastor alleged that Boko Haram has enriched some people by the millions paid by the Nigerian government as ransom.

He added that it is no longer news that terrorism has become a lucrative business under the leadership of Buhari, …

Olusegun Obasanjo

Obasanjo To Speak On Boko Haram On 83rd Birthday

February 24, 2020 12:50 pm

Barring any last-minute change, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo would once again speak on the deadly Boko Haram sect terrorising the nation.

This was disclosed by the Director, Centre for Human Security and Dialogue, Prof. Peter Okebukola, at a world press conference he addressed on Monday at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

The world press conference, Africa Daily News learnt, was to herald the 83rd birthday of the elder statesman, which comes up March 5th.

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Obasanjo’s need to comment on the Boko Haram insurgents became necessary, following …

Buhari Orders Troops: Go After Boko Haram, ISWAP

February 24, 2020 4:21 am
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered Nigerian troops to pursue the terrorists of Boko Haram and ISWAP and make them pay a huge price, for attacking soft targets in the country.

Buhari gave the order in an appreciatory note sent to the troops who repelled the attack by the terrorists against civilians in Garkida, in Adamawa state. ISWAP claimed responsibility.

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“These attacks on soft targets by the terrorists are obvious signs of frustration because my administration has significantly weakened Boko Haram’s military capability to invade and hold Nigerian territory unchallenged.

“Our gallant

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Buhari

US Intelligence Warned Nigeria Against Electing Buhari

February 23, 2020 12:25 pm

Nigeria may soon be on a collision course with the United States over Boko Haram, security and terrorism matters.

The prediction over a probable US-Nigeria face-off followed the latest appointment by U.S. President Donald Trump.

On Thursday February 20, Trump appointed Richard Grenell, current Ambassador to Germany, as the acting Director of National Intelligence.

Interestingly, ahead of the 2015 general elections, Grenell wrote an article titled “Nigeria On The Brink”.

Grenell, in the analysis published on Washington Times, warned Nigerians against electing General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as President.

The envoy pointedly accused Buhari of …

Terrorists

Minister Reveals Why Buhari Pardoned 104 Terrorists

February 23, 2020 6:13 am

The Federal Government, through the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, has explained why 104 ‘repentant’ Boko Haram members were freed.

She said President Muhammadu Buhari granted amnesty to the repentant terrorists “so that they could be assisted in different areas of human development.”

According to a statement by the Assistant Director, Information, Rhoda Ishaku Iliya, the Minister said this when she received the representatives of the Chief of Defence staff, General Abayomi Gabriel Olonishaki, led by the Coordinator of Operation Safe Corridor, Maj.-Gen

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Boko Haram

Boko Haram On Rampage In Adamawa Community

February 22, 2020 5:45 am

Boko Haram insurgents on Friday evening entered Garkida, a town in Gombi, a local government area north of Adamawa State, and went on rampage.

The insurgents were said to have destroyed lives and properties,l.

Sources said the insurgents arrived from somewhere in neighbouring Borno State into Garkida about 7pm, causing residents to scamper for safety, with unspecified number of them being fatally harmed or at least injured.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Suleiman Nguroje told DAILY POST that personnel had been drafted to ascertain the situation.

“It has come to us that there is an attack in Garkida

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B’Haram: Saraki Reveals Talks With Leah Sharibu’s Father

February 22, 2020 5:41 am

Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Friday contacted father of Leah Sharibu, the abducted Dapchi girl still in captivity of Boko Haram.

Thursday marked the second year of Leah Sharibu in the captivity of insurgents.

Leah was abducted by Boko Haram terrorists sometime in February 2018 from Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Bursari Local Government Area of Yobe State.

However, the insurgents, released some girls but held onto Leah over her refusal to renounce her fate as a Christian.

President Muhammadu Buhari few days ago expressed concern that Leah was the only one left in captivity because she

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Muhammadu Buhari

Despite Criticism, We’Ve Made Progress In N’East – Buhari

February 21, 2020 12:07 pm

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said despite criticism, his government has made substantial progress in the war against Boko Haram in the North East.

Buhari spoke when he received Dr Christos Christou, International President of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) at State House, Abuja, Friday.

“We know the pathetic situation of children not knowing where their parents are, or the communities they come from, and that was why we established the new Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. This is to harness and channel resources to such deprived people,” he declared.

The President promised that …

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma

Uzodinma Calls Buratai ‘Strategic Military Leader’

February 15, 2020 4:10 am

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has described the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, as “a strategic military leader” committed to fighting Boko Haram and defending the territorial integrity of Nigeria.

This was contained in a statement by the acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, on Friday in Abuja.

Musa disclosed that the governor made the remark at the launch of a book on Buratai.

Uzodinma, represented by the Eze Udo IV of Obilobi Uratta Ancient Kingdom in Owerri North Local Government area of Imo, Prof.

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Abubakar Shekau

Shekau Proposes Swap Deal To Free Chibok Girls

February 14, 2020 11:00 am

 

The leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau, has given condition for the release of the remaining Chibok schoolgirls in captivity.

In a video the Boko Haram leader released thursday, a day after President Muhammadu Buhari visited Borno State, he said the schoolgirls would be freed if the federal government should release the sect members in detention.
THISDAY could not confirm when or where the group recorded the video.

Shekau also asked Buhari not to return to Borno, saying the sect is fully on the ground in the North-east.
He stated that the insurgents would attack the …

Soldiers

‘FG Is Setting Our Killers Free’– Soldiers Cry Out

February 13, 2020 3:26 am

Some soldiers at the war front in the north-east have expressed disappointment over the release of 1,400 ”repentant” Boko Haram suspects.  

Babakura Jato, commissioner of information in Borno state, on Monday said that 1,400 had been released in three tranches since Operation Safe Corridor programme was launched.

Operation Safe Corridor is an initiative for the deradicalisation and rehabilitation of all ex-Boko Haram members.

Jato said the majority of them are cleared suspects.

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“These were people who were suspected of being members of Boko Haram and it was discovered that …

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