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Boko Haram leader killed in air strike
The leader of the Boko Haram group is believed to be fatally wounded in an air strike carried out by the Nigerian military in the country's northeast, according to official sources.Government ...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 15:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Boko Haram releases 'video' of Chibok girls
Boko Haram has released a video of the Nigerian schoolgirls allegedly kidnapped two years ago, showing some who are still alive and claiming others died in air strikes. The armed group, wh...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 06:57hrs | 3 | by Al Jazeera
Nigerian forces kill over 300 Boko Haram fighters
Maroua - Nigerian forces have killed more than 300 Boko Haram fighters during an operation to recapture 11 towns and villages since the start of the week, the military said on Wednesday, as regional n...Published: 18 Feb 2015 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Goodluck Jonathan calls for US help as Boko Haram invade city
Kano - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan appealed for more US help in fighting Boko Haram, as the Islamists struck again on Saturday and called for a boycott of upcoming general elections....Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 10:53hrs | 4 | by AFP
Deal for the return of captured Nigerian girls
Nigeria's military says it has agreed a truce with Islamist militant group Boko Haram - and says the schoolgirls the group has abducted will be released.Boko Haram sparked global outrage s...Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 16:22hrs | 3 | by BBC
Is Nigeria Finally Winning the Fight Against Boko Haram? - The T.B. Joshua Connection
The news emanating from Nigerian armed forces in the North this week has been extremely encouraging, especially considering the alarming ISIS inspired 'caliphate' rhetoric coined by Boko Haram's f...Published: 25 Sep 2014 at 16:55hrs | 4 | by Godwin Ikechukwu - Lagos, Nigeria
Witches & wizards issue warning to Boko Haram leader
Witches and wizards in Nigeria have recently held an emergency meeting at Afuze, Edo State because they are worried about the socio-economic challenges facing the country.Making this revelatio...Published: 19 Jul 2014 at 12:09hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zim MPs condemn Boko Haram
National Assembly members from different political parties yesterday expressed solidarity with the people and government of Nigeria following the abduction of more than 200 girls from a school three w...Published: 14 May 2014 at 05:12hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
New video claims to show missing Nigerian schoolgirls
New video claiming to show a number of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls has been released by the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram. The girls shown in the video are wearing full hij...Published: 12 May 2014 at 12:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Boko Haramn leader 'Abubakar Shekau' shot, may have died
Nigeria's army said Monday that the leader of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, may have died following a gunshot wound from a clash with soldiers.Intelligence reports ...Published: 20 Aug 2013 at 06:07hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Nigeria: Boko Haram rejects amnesty
The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has rejected the idea of an amnesty.Last week President Goodluck Jonathan asked a high level team to look into the possibility of granting the milita...Published: 11 Apr 2013 at 15:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Christians seek US help in Nigeria
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) - The leader of Nigeria's Christians called yesterday on the US to declare the Islamist group Boko Haram to be terrorists, but a US official said it was more important to address...Published: 11 Jul 2012 at 10:43hrs | | by AFP
Nigeria opens secret detention centre for radical Islamist sect
Abuja - Nigeria is opening a secret detention centre to hold and interrogate suspected high-level members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year alone, a security of...Published: 20 Apr 2012 at 00:27hrs | 2 | by AP
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