By Oto’ Drama, PhD THE hallowed streets of Kano, Kaduna, and Sokoto recently witnessed a spectacle that can only be described as a tragic paradox of misplaced identity. Thousands of Nigerians marched in solemn fury, waving Iranian flags and chanting “Death to America” following the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Yet, only days prior, the…
Boko Haram terrorists offered to release heroic Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu for a ransom, international human rights lawyer Emmanuel Ogebe has disclosed. Speaking from Mexico on the 8th anniversary of her abduction, the renowned DC-based religious freedom advocate said that after hostage negotiators established contact with the terrorists through a network of global jihadi intermediaries,…
Nigeria Army troops of Operation HADIN KAI have arrested an individual suspected of supplying Boko Haram terrorists with drone and other logistics. According to reports by security expert Zagazola Makama the suspect identified as Dauda Usman Gubula was arrested during a raid at the Madagali Motor Park, Madagali Local Government Area of Borno State. Items…
The United States has frozen the assets and properties of eight Nigerians accused of having links with the Boko Haram and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL. The over 3,000-page document released at the weekend by the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC, also identified individuals sanctioned for cybercrime-related offences…
A professor with the Nigerian Army University Biu (NAUB), Borno State, Abubakar Mohammed El-Jummah, has died in Boko Haram captivity nearly one year after he was abducted by terrorists along the Damaturu–Biu Road The family further announced that Salat al-Ghaib (funeral prayer in absentia) will be held on Thursday, February 12, 2026, at the Ngomari…
Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and ex-Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rtd), has attributed the rise of the Boko Haram insurgency to a critical policing error made in 2009. Speaking on Tuesday in Abuja during the 7th Annual Lecture of the Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN), themed “Nigeria’s Security Challenges and…
Abdulrahman Abubakar, district head of Kirawa town in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, has spoken on why he decided to leave Nigeria for Cameroon. Two persons were shot dead and Abubakar’s palace was burnt down during a Boko Haram invasion earlier last week. In an interview with Reuters, the monarch said he had…
Former presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, has refuted claims that late former President Muhammadu Buhari was ever nominated by Boko Haram as its negotiator. Shehu clarified that neither the group’s founder, Mohammed Yusuf, nor his successor, Abubakar Shekau, ever made such a nomination. Instead, he said the terrorist organisation consistently denounced and even threatened Buhari. Ex-President…
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has revealed that 91 Chibok schoolgirls remain in captivity or are still missing, ten years after their abduction. CEDAW also reported that many survivors continued to endure trauma and social stigma, with little to no access to adequate support services. The findings were published…
Survivors have recounted how Boko Haram insurgents killed 63 people in an attack on the Darul Jamal community, Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. Residents said the terrorists stormed the community on Friday night, first engaging the military before proceeding to attack civilians. They attributed the attack to the inadequate presence of security personnel….
