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“Today September 27, 22015, suspected Boko Haram terrorists attacked Mailari village in Konduga LGA”. The United States also continues to provide advisors and share information with our regional partners to enhance counter-Boko Haram operations, as well as victim...

President BuhariTERRORISM and global security are expected to dominate President Muhammadu Buhari’s address at the 70th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly as he leaves Nigeria for New York today.

The Nigerian Army says no fewer than 200 suspected Boko Haram terrorists surrendered to troops that overran them on the Bama-Banki axis of Borno State.

“All movements using vehicles, bicycles and animals like horses, camels, and donkeys in Maiduguri will be restricted as from Wednesday 5:00pm (1700hrs) 23 September 2015”, the message also stated. People consider the curfew as a kind of postponement of the celebration.

“Similarly, all vehicular movements into and out of Maiduguri town will also be restricted within the period till further notice”. People consider the curfew as a kind of postponement of the celebration. “What the government should have done was to maximise the...

It was last hit by a bomb at the end of July and there was a skirmish with suspected Boko Haram militants on the outskirts of the city in mid-August.

Maiduguri-The Borno State police command yesterday confirmed that 54 people were killed and 95 critically injured in multiple explosions that rocked the suburb of Maiduguri, around Ajilari, Bintu sugar and Gomari Airport general areas by suspected terrorists.

The colonel, who is also the Acting Director of Defence Information for the military, added that numerous Nigerian Army and Air Force have cleared out several Boko Haram strongholds, including several camps in the Sambisa forest.

“The government is (looking into possibility of) negotiating with some of the Boko Haram leadership”, the president said. The Islamic radical group has been claiming towns as their “Islamic Caliphate”. Two of the women in that group were noticeably pregnant.

Adesina was reacting to the criticisms that the appointments on Thursday, of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chief of Staff as well as those of the Comptroller-Generals of the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Nigeria Customs Service were skewed in favour...

Buhari, who was represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, said that legislation, huge finance, and confidence in the electoral system were required before Diaspora voting can commence.

Imam Baba Moussa of Cameroon’s Ngaoundere Mosque said such practices are not part of Islam, and warned parents about Boko Haram fighters who may be recruiting children.

A disjointed campaign by Nigeria, Chad and Niger swept Boko Haram out of the towns of northeast Nigeria earlier this year but the group, which has sworn allegiance to Islamic State, has killed hundreds of people in the last three months in those three countries, as well as...

Buratai spoke yesterday morning in Maiduguri in a special Hausa and Kanuri programme of FM Radio Lafiya (Radio Peace) on how to “crush and end” Boko Haram insurgency in the country.

Two Nigerian soldiers were killed and two others injured as a landmine suspected to have been buried by Boko Haram detonated in the volatile Borno State, northeast Nigeria, military authorities said Friday.