Army Chief Brutai Says Boko Haram Militants Picked Wrong Fight With Wrong Enemy

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, on Saturday reassured Nigerians that the army will take every necessary step to restore normalcy across the northeast.

He says the Boko Haram militants that have in the last seven years pushed for the establishment of an Islamic State and an end to Western education in the region ‘picked the wrong fight against the wrong enemy’.

The COAS gave the assurance in Goneri and Buniyadi, two prominent frontline locations the Nigerian Army is currently prosecuting the Boko Haram war in Yobe State.

NIGERIAN TROOPS ARREST BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS AMEER AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER IN YOBE STATE

On Thursday 16th June 2016, Nigerian troops of Sector 5, 27 Task Force Brigade, 3 Division, in conjunction Civilian JTF from Maiduguri arrested a suspected Boko Haram terrorist, Ibrahim Jagwal, aged 38 at Gishiwa Dabua area of Potiskum, Yobe State.

In a statement by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman; the suspected terrorist who turned out to be the Ameer of the Boko Haram Terrorists at Tumbin Gini, Abadam Local Government Area of Borno State, also led the team to Garejin Audu in Potiskum, where another terror suspect, Audu Ahmadu, (alias Condemned) aged 45 years, was arrested same day.

"Preliminary investigation confirms that Audu Ahmadu is a Boko Haram Engineer who specializes in repairs of automobiles for the Boko Haram terrorists group. It was further confirmed he was at the garage to repair 2 vehicles. The vehicles were recovered by the team, while the suspects have been taken into custody for onward movement to Joint Interrogation Centre."

We must end the vicious circle of poverty in Nigeria says Speaker Yakubu Dogara

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara, has called on leaders and top ranking public officials to engage in direct intervention to alleviate the suffering of the people in their communities and give them better living conditions.

The Speaker, who made this call in the National Assembly when he received a non profit organisation that engages in medical outreaches in the urban areas, Doctors On The Move Africa, in his office, said he has resolved to continue to reach out through medical missions to the people with a view to alleviating poverty and improve their living conditions.

Dogara, who partnered with the organisation to provide free medical services in Bauchi State recently, said the success of the mission and the positive feedback received from the people is a signal to him and all other top ranking Nigerians to continue to do everything to lift them from the clutches of poverty.

ABUBAKAR BUKOLA SARAKI: THE MAN WHO DUG HIS OWN GRAVE OUT OF PRIDE AND GREED

At the inception of this administration, President Buhari and the ruling party, APC made it known to all that they don’t need a Senate President with excess baggage.
They don’t need a Senate President with outstanding corruption cases because they want to maintain a clean leadership devoid of personalities with ongoing corruption cases.

 Ordinarily, Senator George Akume was supposed to emerge as the Senate President in the sense that he was the senate minority leader when his party(APC) was in the opposition.

With his party coming to power, he was supposed to be automatically elevated to the Senate Presidency.

Yobe State Is Under Attack, Churches Are Being Burnt Says CAN

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CAN have raised a fresh alarm that Christians and everything that belongs to them is under attack by Boko Haram terrorist group in Yobe State.

Initially, Christians were the main target of the Islamist Boko Haram terrorist atrocities when the crisis in the North-east started but later turned to be the attacks against any perceived opposing voice either from Christians or Muslims and even lately against the innocent Nigerian citizens.


The Abuja branch of CAN released something that seems like a BB message on Friday. CAN is the umbrella body the Christian Association of Nigeria.

Below is the message from CAN on the latest attack:
"BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!! Yobe states is boiling now, churches are being burnt, many xtians killed. Pls pray even if its 5mins & 4wrd 2 others. Don't ignore, cry 2 our God against those Terrorists. He'll hear & heal our land; frm CAN Abuja. Pls send 2 @ least 10 xtians".

BREAKING!! TROOPS GUNNED DOWN NOTORIOUS TERRORIST AND ARREST KINGPIN - NIGERIAN MILITARY

AK-47 rifle recovered from the terrorist

In an offensive operation to clear Boko Haram terrorists enclave around Kwatarha and Torikwaptir general area of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, a notorious Boko Haram terrorist that had been wrecking havoc among the communities was gunned by our troops on Monday afternoon. 

During the operation 4 other terrorists were believed to escape with gun shot wounds. An AK-47 rifle was recovered from him.

CHRIS OLUKOLADE: Nigerian Troops Bust Terrorists' Intelligence Network, Arrest A Key Actor In Chibok Abduction

A terrorists’ intelligence cell headed by a businessman who participated actively in the abduction of School Girls in Chibok has been busted by troops. The man, Babuji Ya’ari who is also a member of the Youth Vigilante Group popularly known as Civilian JTF which he uses as cover while remaining an active terrorist, also spearheaded the murder of the Emir of Gwoza. His main role in the group is to spy and gather information for the terrorists group.

Babuji has been coordinating several deadly attacks in Maiduguri since 2011, including the daring attacks on Customs and military locations as well as the planting of IEDs in several locations in the town.

The arrest of the businessman who is known to deal in tricycles has also yielded some vital information and facilitated the arrest of other members of the terrorists’ intelligence cell who are women. One of them, Hafsat Bako had earlier escaped to Gombe State to avoid suspicion but was tracked and arrested. Prior to her arrest, Hafsat coordinated the payment of other operatives on the payroll of the group. In her confession, she disclosed that a minimum of N10,000 is paid to each operative depending on the enormity of his task.

Brazil 2014; World Unite Against Boko Haram (photo)

Fans display banner against Boko Haram at the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Boko Haram sects had claimed responsibility for an attacked on football viewing center in Damaturu, Yobe State in Nigeria during Brazil vs Mexico world cup match. No less than 20 people killed.

Bomb attack Yobe spurs on Super Eagles

The Nigeria Super Eagles said on Wednesday that a bomb attack that killed at least 21 people watching a World Cup game in  state gives them added determination to do well in Brazil.

The bomb exploded in the midst of a crowd watching Brazil play Mexico on a giant screen in Damataru, capital of Yobe state, on Tuesday night.

The team held a minute's silence before they started training under the floodlights in Campinas, outside Sao Paulo, on Wednesday.

President Jonathan appoints Shekarau, three others as ministers

The Nigeria senate announced the nominees during its plenary session on Wednesday.

The Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, has appointed four new ministers and sent their names to the Senate for confirmation.

One of the new appointees is Ibrahim Shekarau, former governor of Kano State who recently left the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, to join the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
The other nominees are Abdul Bulama from Yobe State, Adedayo Adeyeye from Ekiti State, and Stephen Oruh from Delta State.

The Senate announced the nominees during its plenary session on Wednesday. They are to be screened at a later date.

Details later,,.

More than 30 die in latest Boko Haram Terror attack

At least 30 people including Nigerian troops and policemen from a Nigerian military base and police barracks in Buni Yadi died when Boko Haram militants launched yet another attack on Tuesday.

Reports has that Boko Haram terrorists, Tuesday, killed more than 30 persons comprising soldiers, policemen and civilians in separate attacks in Buni Yadi, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State and Chinene village in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State.

The Divisional Police Officer of Bunu Yadi Division, Superintendent Hassan Thlama, was among the policemen killed, while many others sustained gunshot injuries.

Why Presidency, PDP in secret plot to impeach Nyako

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have resolved to impeach Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State,it was learnt yesterday.

According to a source, the Presidency  was the brain behind the move. Their decision follows Nyako’s recent memo to Northern governors on the insecurity in that part of the country. The Presidency and the PDP consider the memo a danger to national security.

They are also relying on the reports of security agencies into the allegations contained in Nyako’s letter. The security agencies, including the Police, have faulted Nyako’s observations and rated the letter as “subversive and seditious.”

APC PRESS RELEASE: FG's insincerity in the fight against Boko Haram/Search for abducted girls

APC PRESS RELEASE: 20th May 2014

After agreeing that the National Convention of the Party will now hold in Abuja on the 13th and 14th of June 2014 the party proceeded to express its views and concerns about the Federal Government's insincerity in the fight against the Boko Haram and search for the abducted girls.

FG's insincerity in the fight against Boko Haram/Search for abducted girls

We make bold to say that the Federal Government has been very insincere in its persistent call for national unity to combat the despicable Boko Haram sect.

This has been manifest, perhaps more than at any other time, since the tragic abduction of over 200 school girls from Chibok over a month ago.

Up to this moment, the Federal Government has yet to reach out to the APC, the main opposition party, on how to forge a common front against this despicable terror group, despite our incessant efforts to reach out to the government.

Boko Haram Gunshots force Two Pregnant Women to Deliver inside Bush in Yobe state

Two women running away from the Boko Haram attack on Buni Gari town of Yobe state on Saturday were reported to have delivered in the bush, an eyewitness has said. A woman who identified herself as Falmata confirmed that they were running inside the bush when two pregnant women delivered.

“It was terrible my son. The sounds of the gunshots were just too much to bear. As if it was in front of our house. We started running to the bush when we observed that the boys were burning houses. As we were running, other women joined us. Two of them even delivered inside the bush,” Falmata disclosed.

Over 43 Sleeping Students Killed in Yobe by Boko Haram Islamists

Dozens of Nigerian secondary school pupils have been killed by suspected Boko Haram Islamists as they slept in student housing.

Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed 43 people today when they attacked secondary school students as they slept in the latest school massacre to hit Nigeria's troubled northeast. The raid at 2:00 am (0630 IST) targeted the Federal Government College in the town of Buni Yadi in Yobe state and bore the hallmarks of a similar attack last September in which 40 died.

In the attack on the Federal Government College in the town of Buni Yadi in Yobe state, explosives were thrown into accommodation and rooms sprayed with gunfire. The attackers reportedly hurled explosives into student residential buildings, sprayed gunfire into rooms and hacked a number students to death.