Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant-General Waidi Shuaibu, arrived in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, yesterday, amid heightened tensions and a looming protest by the parents of 78 school children who were kidnapped in May. The high-stakes visit comes as the parents shelved a planned journey to the nation’s capital, where they had threatene...
•Terrorists Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have ambushed and killed 15 farmers, while abducting three others in Marte Local Government Area of Borno State. According to local sources, the tragic incident took place across the Ala, Gumna, and Musune wards near the headquarters of the area council, on Wednesday, reports Daily Trust. While initi...
•Terrorists More than 200 Catholic churches have been destroyed across the Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri, while thousands of people, including Christians and Muslims, have reportedly been killed as a result of the prolonged insurgency in the North-East, the Auxiliary Bishop of Maiduguri Diocese, Most Rev. John Bogna Bakeni, has revealed. Baken...
•Mothers of the kidnapped school children Eighty-seven days after terrorists abducted pupils from Mussa Primary and Junior Secondary School in Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, their families said the pain of their absence remains as raw as it was on the morning they were taken. The abduction, which occurred on Friday, May 15, [...
•The freed Oyo pupils and teacher The rescue of 44 pupils and teachers abducted in Oyo State after 56 days in captivity has sparked fresh pressure on President Bola Tinubu and security agencies to launch similar operations to free hundreds of other schoolchildren, women and other Nigerians still being held by terrorists across the country. [&h...
•NECO students Some of the students abducted by armed men during the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination at Government Day Secondary School in Lassa, Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, have been rescued by local vigilante groups. The attack occurred today while candidates were writing their examination, triggering panic acro...
•Protesters against the kidnappings The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohamed Malick Fall, has called for the immediate and safe release of schoolchildren and teachers abducted in recent attacks in Oyo and Borno states. Fall made the call after meeting with a delegation from the National Safe Schools Response...
•Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health and Human Services, Shetima Muhammad At least 39 people have died, while about 4,204 cases of cholera have been recorded across seven local government areas of Borno State. The Incident Manager, Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, Dr. Jacob Thlizer, gave the update today during a sensitisation me...
•Tinubu The residents of Borno State have expressed their previous concerns over the federal government’s prolonged silence since the abduction of 48 primary and junior secondary school pupils and students in Mussa community, Askira Uba Local Government Area of the state. The aggrieved residents noted that the government had prioritised a simi...
•Nigerian Senate Leader of the Senate, Opeyemi Bamidele, yesterday condemned the abduction of 87 students and teachers in Borno and Oyo states within 24 hours. Bamidele, also Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, added that the recent abduction accentuated the need to expedite the establishment of state ...
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