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Islamist insurgents have launched a coordinated assault against state infrastructure in Borno State, exposing the persistent fragility of Nigeria’s northeastern security borders. Heavily armed Boko Haram fighters swarmed a frontline military installation before setting a nearby police divisional headquarters on fire. The raid directly challenges federal declarations that the decade-long insurgency has entered its terminal…
A fresh political fault line has opened over who should carry the blame for Nigeria’s worsening kidnapping crisis, with the Presidency insisting that state governors and local council chairmen, not the Federal Government, must answer for abductions that happen on their soil. The position was laid out by Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President…
The killing of a retired general in captivity has pushed the Senate to draw a firm line against one of Nigeria’s longest-running counter-insurgency tools, with lawmakers demanding that captured terrorists be prosecuted rather than resettled, even as the Army announced the surrender of two senior Boko Haram commanders barely a day before the resolution….
Two high-ranking Boko Haram commanders have surrendered to the Nigerian Army in Yobe State following sustained operational pressure in the North-East. Security officials confirmed that the insurgent leaders abandoned their forest hideouts to turn themselves over to frontline troops. The identities of the operatives remain withheld while military intelligence personnel conduct preliminary debriefings. This high-profile…
A worsening tide of armed violence has now uprooted more than 3.5 million people across the Lake Chad Basin, pushing one of the world’s most protracted humanitarian emergencies to what the United Nations refugee agency has described as a dangerous tipping point. The warning came from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which…
Examination halls turned into scenes of terror in Lassa town on Monday morning as gunmen stormed Government Day Secondary School in the Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, abducting an unspecified number of students sitting the National Examinations Council Senior School Certificate Examination and killing at least one teacher. The attackers struck at…
A fresh group of top Islamic State West Africa Province commanders has surrendered to troops of the Joint Task Force North East, Operation HADIN KAI, in the latest sign that sustained military pressure is fracturing the insurgent group’s leadership across Borno State and the wider Lake Chad Basin. The Acting Media Information Officer of the…
A Boko Haram member who travelled abroad for weapons training before joining the deadly 2015 assault on Maiduguri has been sentenced to death by hanging, in the latest in a string of terrorism convictions handed down by the Federal High Court this year. Justice James Omotosho delivered the judgment in Abuja on Friday, convicting…
Nigeria is contending with extraordinary levels of insecurity, with approximately 2.2 million kidnapping incidents recorded within a single year and ransom payments estimated at N2.2 trillion, a security expert, Prof. Oyesoji Aremu, has said. Aremu, a security scholar at the University of Ibadan and Acting Vice Chancellor of Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State, made…
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked a school in Borno State on Friday morning, carting away an unspecified number of pupils in what witnesses described as a swift and unopposed raid deep within a conflict zone bordering the dreaded Sambisa Forest. The attack occurred around 9 am at Mussa Primary and Junior Secondary School in…
