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In May 2014, the United Nations Security Council listed Boko Haram as a terrorist organisation. Three years earlier, the Gaji ...

A suicide attack in Nigeria's Borno state on June 21, which killed 12 people, has raised fears about the resurgence of the ...

On the night of June 21, a woman detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in a crowd of people at a fish market in ...

Former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General, Tukur Yusuf Buratai (rtd), has commended troops of the Nigerian Army for ...

To Obadare’s credit, the piece initially acknowledges the multifaceted nature of insecurity in Nigeria: a convergence of weak ...

Afenifere has urged President Bola Tinubu to, as a matter of importance, forward a bill for the immediate restructuring of ...

The Nigerian military has recorded remarkable successes since revving up its counter-insurgency operation in the North-east, ...

A suicide bomber in Nigeria’s northeast state of Borno has killed at least 10 people and injured several others in an explosion in a restaurant.

A suicide attack in Nigeria's Borno state by a woman allegedly acting for Boko Haram has killed at least 20 anti-militant ...

A high court in Maiduguri, Borno state, has sentenced Aisha Wakil, popularly known as ‘Mama Boko Haram’, to 14 years ...