Reuters - 9 hours ago By Mike Oboh and Ibrahim Mshelizza | KANO/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police said they found cars and vans filled with explosives in the northern city of Kano Monday, three days after Islamist sect Boko Haram carried out a deadly attack ... |
Daily Sun - 5 hours ago A gunman suspected to be of Boko Haram on Sunday evening killed the registrar of a Maiduguri High Court, Baba Loskurima, just as the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) also claimed it gunned down four members of the sect within Maiduguri metropolis. |
The Nation Newspaper - 4 hours ago By Nwanosike Onu, Awka 4 hours 38 minutes ago Anambra State Governor Peter Obi has said the Boko Haram bombings and killings in Kano last week, in which scores of people died and several others injured, were a national shame. |
P.M. News - 7 hours ago NLC said this on Monday while reacting to last Friday's attacks by Boko Haram Islamic fundamentalist sect in Kano that has so far resulted in over 200 deaths. |
Vanguard - 3 hours ago By Charles Kumolu & Emmanuel Elebeke LAGOS - NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to take active steps in protecting the lives and property of Nigerians against further attacks from Boko Haram, noting that ... |
Vanguard - 3 hours ago LAGOS —The Boko Haram sect has cited the stoppage of its monthly financial support for the recent attacks on northern states, claiming that the group was until recently being bankrolled by some northern governors. |
Vanguard - 46 minutes ago By DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA—LEADERS of the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, in the Southwest including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday condemned the activities of the Boko Haram sect, saying it was the time the Federal Government clamped ... |
The Nation Newspaper - 4 hours ago By Augustine Ehikioya, Abuja 3 hours 10 minutes ago Officials of the United States and Nigeria yesterday started a two-day meeting to check increasing terrorist attacks in the North. |
CHANNELS - 5 hours ago Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka spoke out today at a town hall meeting held by the Save Nigeria Group, condemning the vicious coordinated bomb attacks and gun battle by Boko Haram sect in Kano and urged residents to refrain from reprisal attacks. |
Vanguard - Jan 22, 2012 This is the situation hundreds of Christians from Yobe State have found themselves as they have escaped to different parts of the country following the onslaught against them by members of the Boko Haram sect . TheBoko Haram Sect had given Christians ... |
Leadership Newspapers - 3 hours ago An Abuja Chief Magistrates' Court on Monday directed that four suspected members of the Boko Haram sect be remanded in prison custody. |
The Nation Newspaper - 4 hours ago Abiru, who spoke with reporters yesterday, described as embarrassing the recurring bomb blasts engineered by members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, adding that the escape of a suspect, Kabiru Sokoto, was worrisome. “The issue of this reccurring bomb ... |
Moment Nigerian Newspapers - 19 hours ago CONTROVERSIAL Commissioner of Police (CP) Zakari Biu, detained over the escape of Boko Haram prime suspect, Kabir Umar, also known as Kabir Sokoto, may have been moved to Defence Military Intelligence (DMI) cell. |
The Nation - 4 hours ago By Our Reporter 1 minute ago A cleric, Prophet Samson Oluwamodede, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan, his deputy, Namadi Sambo, members of the National Assembly, governors, state legislators, ministers and other political office holders to ... |
Baltimore Sun - 10 hours ago Members or followers of Boko Haram, the terrorist group which killed hundreds in 2011 - including on Christmas Day in several church bombings - are suspected of being behind both atrocities. |
BusinessWeek - 16 hours ago The militant Islamist group Boko Haram said it was responsible for blasts at eight government buildings in Kano on Jan. 20. |
Vanguard - Jan 22, 2012 BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN—FORMER National President of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Dr. Chris Ekiyor, has said the spate of bombings by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram and other security challenges in the country were targeted at crippling the ... |
Nigerian Tribune - Jan 22, 2012 Suspected Boko Haram member, who bombed the Main Mosque, Hausa Quarters in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State on December 10, 2011, Tanko Buzu, is dead. |
Vanguard - Jan 20, 2012 Mallam Kabiru Sokoto, the most prominent member of theBoko Haram group presently involved in distabilising plot against the country through sectarian killings, had been arrested in the confines and comfort of the Borno Governor's Lodge in Abuja last ... |
Vanguard - Jan 21, 2012 In 2009, when Boko Haram evidently debuted, the then governor of Gombe, Alhaji Mohammad Danjuma Goje, resisted their incursion into the state and encouraged religious harmony and peaceful co-existence among the people. |