#boko_haram

Nigerian police arrested top Boko Haram commander Mohammed Zakari …

Police in Nigeria have arrested Mohammed Zakari, a senior commander of the Boko Haram sect, blamed for killing hundreds of people since 2009, a police officer said on Tuesday.

Zakari, 30, was linked to the recent killing of seven people, including women and children, Xinhua quoted police spokesperson Frank Mba as saying in a statement.

The suspect was arrested on Saturday following a massive on…

Nigeria Boko Haram militants abducted 31 boys and 60 girls and women …

Suspected Boko Haram militants have abducted 31 boys and 60 girls and women in northeast Nigeria, it has been claimed.

Four local residents were reportedly killed when the Islamic extremists took the hostages in several attacks in Borno state.

Aji Khalil, from a local anti-Boko Haram vigilante group in Kummabza, said the kidnappings took place there on Saturday.

Nigeria’s defence headquarters in…

Bomb tore through a World Cup venue in Nigeria , 13 killed …

At least 13 people including young children were killed when a bomb tore through a venue in northeast Nigeria where fans had gathered to watch a World Cup soccer match, witnesses said.

Some people at the scene told Reuters an attacker dropped a device in front of the venue on Tuesday night in the town of Damaturu and ran off, while others said it was the work of a suicide bomber.

No one claimed…

Bombing at a football pitch kills atleast 40 peoples in Nigeria …

Kano: A bombing at a football pitch in Nigeria’s restive northeast killed at least 40 people on Sunday in an area previously attacked by Boko Haram Islamists, a police officer and a nurse said.

The blast hit the town of Mubi in Adamawa state, one of three in the northeast which has been under a state of emergency for more than a year as Nigeria’s military has tried to crush Boko Haram’s…

Nigeria’s president dictates for a full-scale operation against Boko Haram …

Nigeria’s president said on Thursday he had ordered “a full-scale operation” against Boko Haram Islamist militants and sought to reassure the parents of 219 schoolgirls being held by the group that their children would be freed.

Speaking on Nigeria’s Democracy Day, Goodluck Jonathan said he had authorized security forces to use any means necessary under the law to ensure that Boko Haram, which…

Nigeria’s defence located 300 abducted school girls …

Abuja, Nigeria: Nigeria’s military has located nearly 300 school girls abducted by Islamic extremists but fears using force to try to free them could get them killed, the country’s chief of defence said Monday.

Air Marshal Alex Badeh told demonstrators supporting the much criticized military that Nigerian troops can save the girls. But he added, “we can’t go and kill our girls in the name of…

Two car bombs exploded in Nigerian busy market killed 118 ….

Car bombs exploded one after the other in a busy market area and adjoining bus terminal in the city of Jos in central Nigeria killing 118 people and wounding 45 on Tuesday afternoon. Although no group claimed responsibility for the attacks immediately, the Islamic fundamentalist organisation Boko Haram is known to have carried out similar attacks in the country since its insurrection five years…

Nigeria and four other African nations proclaims war on Boko Haram ….

Nigeria and four other African nations have effectively declared war on Boko Haram, resolving to rescue the Nigerian schoolgirls who are still being held captive by the militant Islamist group. Representatives of Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin announced their plans for cooperation in the conflict with Boko Haram , at a summit held in Paris. The African nations will receive technical…