Amnesty International has released a new report calling for urgent response to Boko Haram brutality against women and girls in Nigeria’s Northeast. Amnesty noted that Boko Haram fighters target women and girls with rape and other sexual violence, which amount to war crimes. The report also called on Nigerian authorities and other partners to urgently provide…
Reports from the Northeast indicate that at least two persons have been killed in multiple explosions in Maiduguri, Borno State. Health workers also confirmed that at least forty-seven persons were injured in the explosions, which occurred yesterday evening. Local inhabitants told journalists that explosions were also heard in Mairi area, close to where students of the University…
The Chief of Army Staff Major General Ibrahim Attahiru has again visited Nigerian troops on the frontline in Borno State. Attahiru who visited troops at Special Army Super Camp in Ngamdu, commended them for their loyalty and doggedness in the ongoing fight against Insurgency in the North-east. The new Chief of Army Staff assured the troops of…
The Minister of Defence, retired General BASHIR MAGAJI, has said that the government will not hire mercenaries to fight Boko Haram terrorists in the Northeast. General MAGAJI boasted the Nigerian Military has the capacity to deal with the terrorists and bandits who are troubling the northern parts of the country. MAGAJI, who spoke on a television programme…
President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has held a meeting with all governors of the thirty-six states of Nigeria. The closed-door meeting at the Presidential Villa was held on the request of the state governors after the meeting of the Nigerian Governors Forum. President BUHARI will also on Thursday this week visit the National Assembly to address the Senate and…
President MUHAMMADU BUHARI will on Thursday, December 10, 2020, visit the National Assembly complex in Abuja. President BUHARI’s visit is in response to the invitation by the House of Representatives over the insecurity across the country. However; the President’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, LAURETTA ONOCHIE, confirmed in a message on Twitter that he would brief both…