The country’s opposition coalition said it would oppose any postponement, and the electoral commission said it had not received any such official communication. The Nigerian National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki said Thursday that he had advised the chairman of the … read more
The Federal Government, yesterday, expressed the possibility of recalling soldiers in the country’s peace keeping mission abroad to enhance the operational capability of the military against insurgency in the North East. The Coordinator, National Information Centre, NIC, Mr. Mike Omeri, … read more
Islam needs a reboot as Egypt and France battle the same enemy by waging war against Islamic extremism and terrorism, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Thursday. It’s a tolerant religion, he said, but in the past two to three decades … read more
A German kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamist militants in northern Nigeria’s Adamawa State in July has been released following an operation by Cameroon’s military and its allies, the government said in a statement on Wednesday. A Cameroon military aircraft carrying … read more
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for the mass killings in the northeast Nigerian town of Baga and has threatened more violence. The acknowledgment from the leader of Nigeria’s Islamic extremists comes in a video posted on YouTube … read more
Boko Haram attacked a village in northern Cameroon early Sunday, killing three people and staging its largest kidnapping yet in the country, the information minister said, adding that some of the hostages were children.In a separate attack in Nigeria, a … read more
In the last ten days, the western world was stunned and horrified by the sight of an instantly viral video of two black-clad Islamic gunmen murdering a police officer in the streets of Paris. The pair, it transpired, had just … read more
Boko Haram says it is building an Islamic state that will revive the glory days of northern Nigeria’s medieval Muslim empires, but for those in its territory life is a litany of killings, kidnappings, hunger and economic collapse. The Islamist … read more
A general election in Nigeria on 14 February is poised to bring a spike in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea as politicians seek campaign funding, say analysts. This assessment could tally with a reported hijacking of a tanker in … read more
Cameroon has freed 24 of a revised estimate of 80 hostages kidnapped during a cross-border attack by suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters based in neighbouring Nigeria, a defence ministry spokesman has said. The kidnapping, which occurred in the north of … read more