Category: Boko Haram

In an interview published on Transformation Watch, an ex member of the Boko Haram sect, fingers former president of Nigeria, Ibrahim Babangida as a key sponsor of the organisation. This...

Saying "the time has come for a new policy" in Syria, veteran Republican Senator John McCain called Monday for U.S.-led airstrikes on President Bashar al-Assad's forces in an effort to...

Over 150 Igbo citizens arrived Enugu from Maiduguiru, Borno State, on Thursday, three days after the same number of persons returned home due to the upsurge of Boko Haram activities...

Members of a suspected Boko Haram sect this morning killed about 13 people in various attacks targeted at police, soldiers, a hotel and a bank in Bauchi State. A source...

Sulaimon Olanrewaju writes that the original intention of members of Al-Sunnah wal Jamma (popularly known as Boko Haram group) was to pattern their lives after the teaching of Prophet Muhammed...

  IN Potiskum, Yobe State, residents fled after arsonists burnt 30 Christian-owned shops as well as the home of a Christian leader on Sunday night in what appeared to be...

  Top Muslim leaders and Islamic scholars across the country yesterday rose in condemnation of the Christmas Day bombings in parts of the North, saying such attacks were un-Islamic and...

  *Okonkwo, Uma Ukpai, others also; urge Christians to be ready *It’s impossible to police all Nigeria- Azazi BY SAM EYOBOKA & DANIEL IDONOR LAGOS – Christian leaders led by...

Before 2011, Boko Haram was a little understood, dangerous but parochial Islamic sect believed to be in decline after a purge by Nigerian security forces in 2009. Now, with the...