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However, the statement said the Nigerian Military on Friday lost two soldiers to the terrorists in Marte local government area of Borno, while two others were critically injured.

He said those in charge of recruitment and training in the Police must be above board and stay away from every form of extortion and underhand dealing. “It should not be heard that they receive gratification or extort money from those who want to enlist in the...

It would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had on Monday disclosed plans by the Federal Government to recruit 10,000 policemen in his address at the National Security Summit on Community Partnership Approach to Internal Security and Crime Management, organised by the...

Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention.

A bomb attack on a packed market in northeastern Nigeria bearing the hallmarks of Boko Haram killed around 50 people on Tuesday, sources said.

According to him, the group is also responsible for over 200,000 barrels of oil production and over 900 million cubic feet of gas production per day in the country.

Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau has refuted recent media reports of his death or replacement in an audio message.

Buhari expressed his government’s determination to fight against Boko Haram, defend and restore territorial integrity of Nigeria, protect the lives and property of Nigerians.

Spokesman Col. Tukur Gusau said that 101 of those freed are children, along with 67 women and 10 men.

Nigerian troops have rescued 178 people from Boko Haram in attacks that destroyed several of the Islamic extremist group’s camps in the north east, according to the army.

“It was a bloody attack by a female suicide bomber and apart from the over 40 people who were killed, many sustained injuries”, he said.

The Nigerian military has announced the release of hundreds of people held captive by Boko Haram in recent months, especially in the notorious Sambisa forest, a longtime Islamist stronghold now affiliated with the Islamic State group.

“Boko Haram attacked the village of Tchakamari at around one in the morning Tuesday, killing at least six people“, a soldier sent to the site of the attack told AFP.

Boko Haram, which calls itself the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) since pledging allegiance to the militant group that controls large areas of Syria and Iraq, is fighting to establish an emirate in northeast Nigeria.

Villagers described how dozens of gunmen on motorbikes stormed Tadagara and Dunbulwa villages, 170 kilometres (100 miles) from Yobe state capital Damaturu, from Wednesday night through to the following morning.