Suspected Boko Haram kills 15 farmers in north-east Nigeria
Maiduguri, NigeriaReuters At least 15 rice farmers were killed and several others feared abducted in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state after suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked three villages, a local farmers’ leader said on Monday. The attack occurred in the villages of Koshebe, Karkut, and Bulabulin in the Mafa local government area in the state, about […]
Nigerian state to shut camps for people displaced by insurgency
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Nigeria’s Borno State, the epicentre of an ongoing Islamist insurgency, will shut all camps that are holding thousands of internally displaced persons by the end of the year, its governor said on Friday, citing improved security in the state. The conflict between the insurgents and Nigeria’s armed forces has also spread to […]
Suspected extremists kill at least 40 farmers in Nigeria
Maidguri, NigeriaAP Suspected members of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram killed at least 40 rice farmers and fishermen in Nigeria as they were harvesting crops in the country’s northern state of Borno, officials said. One said the death toll could rise to about 60 people. The attack on Saturday in a rice field in […]
Islamic State releases video purportedly showing beheading of 11 Christians in Nigeria on Christmas Day
Abuja, NigeriaBosNewsLife The so-called Islamic State group has released a video purportedly showing the murder of 11 Christians in Nigeria’s Borno State on Christmas Day. In the gruesome video, one man is shot before the other 10 are beheaded. A masked man in the almost one-minute video claimed the killings were part of their recently […]
Militants kill at least 25 Nigerian soldiers, some civilians in ambush – sources
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Islamist insurgents killed at least 25 soldiers and a number of civilians in an ambush in northeast Nigeria on Saturday morning, two security sources said, the second deadly attack on the army this week. Militants opened fire as the soldiers were escorting a groups of evacuees from a village in Borno state, […]
Boko Haram militants terrify residents in attacks in north-east Nigeria
Morning Star News After burning a church building in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state on 14th March, Boko Haram terrorists yesterday evening attacked a Christian-majority town in neighboring Adamawa state, sources said. Area residents said Muslim extremists of the Boko Haram insurgency last night invaded Michika, a town they had seized in September, 2014, and held […]
Eighty-three children used as “human bombs” in north-east Nigeria already this year says UNICEF
At least 83 children, mostly girls, have been used as “human bombs” since January this year in conflict-torn north-east Nigeria – a fourfold increase on the whole of last year’s total, according to new data from UNICEF. The UN child focused agency said that since 1st January, 55 girls – most under 15-years-old, 27 boys […]