Tag: boko haram

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December 13, 2012

SSS says Senator Ndume was in contact with Boko Haram 73 times in one month … I wanted to restore peace, he says

by Akan Ido Investigators yesterday told the federal court that Senator Ali Ndume, who was arrested late 2011 for allegedly ...

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December 10, 2012

State of anomie: Potiskum under siege by unknown gunmen

by Akan Ido Unknown gunmen have attacked, Potiskum, a major town in Yobe State. They were said to have attacked ...

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December 9, 2012

Simon Kolawole: We’re killing industry in Nigeria softly, steadily

But this is Nigeria and you always suspected there must be a downside. A friend visited me during the week. ...

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December 8, 2012

Temie Giwa: We need to talk about the North (YNaija Frontpage)

When death comes in waves to people who look like us all, it cheapens the lives of the living; and ...

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December 8, 2012

We foiled Boko Haram’s ‘Operation Black Christmas’, JTF says

The JTF said it carried out successful operations against the insurgent group. The Joint Task Force in Maiduguri said it ...

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December 7, 2012

Read my lips: There is no form of dialogue between GEJ and Boko Haram – Oronto Douglas insists

by Hauwa Gambo The Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Research, Documentation and Strategy, Oronto Douglas has repeated the ...

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December 5, 2012

Opinion: Boko Haram the series: Season 2, Episode 1

by Mustapha Rabiu More than anything, this FG has been incompetent, and trigger-happy to blame others. There’s a certain numbness ...

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December 5, 2012

Japheth Omojuwa: Focusing the sun on our activism (YNaija FrontPage)

I call this the National Distraction Album in Nigeria. This is the predictable tactic of those in government to always ...

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December 4, 2012

Another bomb blast injures 3 Shari’a guards in Kano

by Akan Ido A bomb explosion in Kano yesterday injured three paramilitary personnel. The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was said ...

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December 3, 2012

Blast injures traffic warden, 2 others in Kano

by Akan Ido A bomb which exploded this morning at Kantin Kwari junction near the famous Kantin Kware Textile Market ...

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December 3, 2012

Still on the matter: Once I get the money, I will buy a jet – Bishop Tom Samson

by Akan Ido Just like the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor celebrated 40 years ...

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December 3, 2012

Boko Haram gunmen kill policemen, burn churches in Borno

by Isi Esene In what is now becoming a weekly orgy of violence, gunmen suspected to be members of the ...

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December 2, 2012

Simon Kolawole: Beyond sacking civil servants

…we cannot be building a new Presidential Banquet Hall at over N2 billion and be complaining about “no money”. A ...

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November 30, 2012

Opinion: Enemies of life

by Tony Iribor Christians are the masters in the art of dealing with enemies. I am tempted to believe that ...

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November 30, 2012

Army evicts civilians from barracks, as Boko Haram express solidarity with global jihadists

The military has commenced the mass eviction of civilians from barracks across the country, Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike ...

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November 30, 2012

Opinion: Nigeria sans frontier (A Nigeria without borders)

by Ozia Nneamaka I can write all I want. You can read all you want. In the end, it takes ...

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November 29, 2012

4 killed and 1 missing in gun duel between Boko Haram and JTF

by Isi Esene A gun battle between men of the Joint Military Task Force and insurgent elements in Maiduguri, the ...

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November 29, 2012

“We are ready to sue Boko Haram at the International Criminal Court” – CAN President, Ayo Oritsejafor

by Akan Ido There are indications that the Christian Association of Nigeria is planning to drag the dreaded Islamic group, ...

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November 28, 2012

“No amount is too much”: Police to spend N2 billion to fight terrorism next year

by Rachel Ogbu Caleb Olubolade, minister of police affairs announced new year plans to fight terrorism in Nigeria, recently he ...

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November 28, 2012

Call for truce: Boko Haram requests for dialogue with FG

by Rachel Ogbu Following a double suicide bombing that killed at least 17 people at the Protestant Military Church, Armed ...

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November 27, 2012

Death toll rises in Jaji terrorist attack

by Isi Esene More people have reportedly died as a result of the explosion which occurred last Sunday at the ...

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November 25, 2012

Jaji bomb update: 10 people reported dead and more injured in twin car bomb attack on church

  by Isi Esene There are indications that the explosion which occurred earlier today at the military protestant church within ...

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November 25, 2012

Breaking News: Huge bomb-blast reported at a church in Kaduna

by Akan Ido There are unconfirmed reports of a bomb-blasts at a military protestant church right inside the Armed Forces ...

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November 24, 2012

Win N290m Promo: JTF releases lists of ‘Most Wanted’ Boko Haram leaders, offers N290m reward

by Rachel Ogbu Joint Task Force (JTF) in Maiduguri in its newest effort to get rid of the Islamic militant ...

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November 24, 2012

Opinion: Constitutional amendment – A case of the ruling class and the rest of us

by Theophilus Ilevbare The cancerous plague of the hydra-headed nature of sleaze that has brought the nation to its sorry ...

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November 23, 2012

President Jonathan blames politicians for religious crisis in Nigeria

by Isi Esene President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday maintained that most of the religious tensions in the country were politically motivated. ...

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November 23, 2012

Boko Haram slaughters 3 children (5, 7, 12) of SSS officer in their mother’s presence

by Isi Esene Men suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect on Thursday morning attacked the family ...

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November 19, 2012

Church pastor killed by gunmen in Borno, police inspector assassinated in Bauchi

by Isi Esene A police inspector and a retired pastor were yesterday gunned down by unidentified men. The inspector, identified ...

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November 19, 2012

Shocking: Reuters reveals videos showing ‘the killing of unarmed men by Nigerian solidiers”

by Isi Esene An international news agency, Reuters, has revealed that it is in possession of a video purportedly taken ...

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November 15, 2012

Abimbola Adelakun: Buhari reminds me of Jesus Christ

by Abimbola Adelakun   Now he has rejected the poisoned chalice, there are commentaries that he is sore that he ...

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