The last sentence highlights the reality of the problem – it is not the rise of Boko Haram which is the problem but the willing inability of the State to confront them and the concomitant complicity ...

This is not a good time to be an expatriate Nigerian. No, I take that back; this is a particularly bad time to be an expatriate Nigerian, given the steady flow of bad news, bad news and more bad news ...

Boko Haram’s recent call for peaceful negotiation with the Federal Government has raised several issues in the polity. In this report, Dare Odufowokan looks at the implications of the proposed peace ...

Top Boko Haram members and foot-soldiers have been arrested in Lagos, says army chief Buratai. Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, says no part of the country is immune from the ...

Since launching its Camp Holocaust offensive at the beginning of 2025, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has carried out over 200 attacks, killing at ...

(Reuters) - Here are some details about the Boko Haram Islamist sect which claimed responsibility for multiple gun and bomb attacks in the Nigerian city of Damaturu on Friday * Boko Haram became ...

Civil war lasted for 30 months. Although we thought it would last for six months. But this fight against insurgents and ...

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau once secretly lived in Kano after being wounded in July 2009, adopting the false name Alhaji Garba to hide his identity.

In the beginning The Boko Haram insurgency, which has claimed the lives of over 20,000 people, with a further displacement of ...

Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria also known as Shi'ite, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, has disclosed that the United States, ...

(Reuters) - The Islamist group Boko Haram says it was responsible for the abduction of hundreds of boys from a school in Katsina state in northwestern Nigeria, according to an audio message from a man ...

In 2014 the Muslim terror group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 girls in Nigeria In 2014 the Muslim terror group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 girls in ...