The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) aircraft operating in the North-East and North-West regions of the country between March 28 and 31, 2022, killed 33 terrorists in coordinated airstrikes in the forests of Borno, Zamfara and Kaduna States. A top military source said the NAF through the Air Component of Operations …
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The Director of Forestry and Wildlife, Ministry of Environment, Borno State, Mr Peter Ayuba, has confirmed the killing of a lion by hunters in the Konduga Local Government Area of the state. Ayuba, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the incident on Tuesday in Maiduguri, the …
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The Nigerian troops have killed four SWAP terrorists at Ngwom community in Mafa Local Government Area, of Borno state on Tuesday evening. PRNigeria gathered that the terrorists had sneaked into town the town on six gun trucks through a cattle crossing point within Mafa axis at about 6:50 pm. While …
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Four Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were, on Sunday night, killed when two male suicide bombers detonated explosives strapped to their bodies at Dalori 2 IDP camp in Maiduguri. The explosion also claimed the lives of the suicide bombers and left 15 others. The injured victims, SaharaReporters learned, were taken to a specialist …
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A Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, on Thursday sentenced two men to two years in prison for stealing rice donated by foreign donors to internally displaced persons. The two convicts are Umar Ibrahim, a supervisory councilor in Mafa local government area, and Ali Zangebe, a local politician from …
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The Nigerian Army has established a university in Biu, Borno State, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Burutai, disclosed on Monday. According to the COAS, the Nigerian Army Institute of Technology and Environmental Studies has been upgraded to Nigerian Army University of Technology and Environmental Studies, Biu, in …
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One of the missing schoolgirls abducted by the fighters of the Boko Haram Islamic sect from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014, Amina Ali Nkeki, has been found, the Nigerian Army has said. Activists also told the BBC that Amina was found by a vigilante group …
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Rescued Chibok schoolgirl, Amina Ali-Nkeki, on Thursday arrived at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, for audience with President Muhammadu Buhari. The girl, her baby, her mother and her brother, were led to the villa by Borno governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, at about 2.46 p.m. The governor and the girl, with her …
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The General Officer Commanding the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Brig. Gen. Victor Ezugwu, has escaped an assassination attempt in an ambush by the members of the Boko Haram at the Bama axis of Borno. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said in a statement on …
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An estimated 10,000 local hunters from the North-East of Nigeria gathered recently in Adamawa State for their annual oath-taking festival, known as Salala in the local parlance. The hunters, dressed in their warfare attires, and with their dane guns dangling over their shoulders, vowed to rid the society of criminals. …
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