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Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Mohammed Ali Ndume, yesterday said over 847 soldiers have so far been killed by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State alone since 2013. Ndume, who addressed Senate correspondents in Abuja, also dismissed claims of the existence of mass graves...

The Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, on Sunday broke his longtime silence to speak on the Borno governor’s recent call on insurgents to lay down their arms and embrace government’s amnesty programme. In an 18 minutes audio message, Mr Shekau, who spoke in his native Kanuri...

Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have killed at least 30 people in a shooting at a funeral in Borno State state, a security source and a resident said yesterday. Borno is the epicenter of the Boko Haram and related Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) insurgency. The conflict has...

Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar, has said that military operations in the north had yielded positive results by caging Boko Haram insurgents to one section of the North East. He disclosed this in an interview with journalists after he delivered the second...

The Nigerian Army yesterday, said its soldiers engaged in the ongoing counterinsurgency fight in the North East have killed one terrorist and recovered several arms and ammunition from them. The soldiers from 121Battalion in conjunction with hunters while on clearance operations...

Operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Borno State yesterday confirmed the arrest of Aliyu Muhammed, a 24 year-old suspected Boko Haram Improvised Explosive Device (IED) logistics supplier in Maiduguri, the capital of the state. The NSCDC...

The Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), a regional military operation, has said its troops killed 40 Boko Haram terrorists and destroyed six gun trucks in an offensive against the insurgents in a Borno border town at the weekend. MNJTF spokesman, Col. Timothy Antigha, in a...

The only Christian girl, Leah Sharibu who was abducted among other Student by the Boko Haram terrorist group is dead. Leah has remained resolute in her Christian faith and refused to convert to Islam. Her matter generated public debate in international Community . While some...

The Military yesterday said that three of its soldiers lost their lives in a shootout with the Boko Haram terror group in Borno State. The assistant director, army public relations, theater command, Col. Onyeama Nwachukwu, who made this known in a statement, said the soldiers...

Few weeks after 23 soldiers were shot dead by Boko Haram terrorists, the Nigerian Amy has suffered another tragedy as 13 soldiers were killed by the terror group in an ambush on Christmas day. Also killed was a policeman . The soldiers were said to be on escort duty along the...