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At least 1,932 people lost their lives in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states between April and June 2026, according to the latest humanitarian access snapshot released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The figure comes from data compiled by the Humanitarian Access Working Group drawing on records from the…
Defence correspondents flown into Maiduguri this week to sit inside cockpits, night patrols and operations rooms of the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai have become the first practical test of a Federal Government pledge made barely five weeks ago, when the Ministry of Defence told the Nigeria Union of Journalists that reporters would…
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…
Desperation born of empty granaries is quietly filling the ranks of armed groups across northern Nigeria, with the United Nations warning that hungry residents are joining bandits and insurgents simply to eat. The disclosure, made by the World Food Programme on Thursday, paints the clearest picture yet of how deprivation and violence now feed…
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’s education sector faces renewed pressure from armed group attacks on schools, with the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr Malick Fall, urging stronger collective commitment to safe, inclusive and violence free teaching and learning environments. Mr Fall made the call after meeting a delegation from the National Safe Schools Response Coordination Centre…
The Nigerian Air Force launched a series of high-precision airstrikes, destroying a major terrorist logistics base in the Sambisa Forest. Aerial reconnaissance missions tracked insurgent movements to hidden enclaves within the notorious woodland before the operation. Fighter jets subsequently deployed guided munitions to level several structures used for storing weaponry, food rations, and fuel. Military…
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…
The number of Nigerian refugees who voluntarily returned home more than doubled within the first quarter of 2026, offering a cautious but measurable sign of progress in one of Africa’s most protracted displacement crises, even as internally displaced persons within Nigeria’s own borders continued to surge. Fresh data drawn from three successive Forcibly Displaced…
