Boko Haram
OPERATION HADIN KAI: Troops eliminates Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists, capture equipment in Yobe, Borno
Troops of 120 Task Force Battalion, Sector 2, Joint Task Force (JTF), North East(NE) Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) in consolidating on their operational feat against Boko Haram (BH) and Islamic State West Africa Province Terrorists (ISWAP) have eliminated the criminal elements in a fierce encounter at Goniri, Yobe State on Saturday 29 January 2022. […]
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Addressing the menace of insecurity in Northern Nigeria
By Dorcas Adams Since the recent exacerbation of terrorism in northern Nigeria, there have not been serious legal actions to punish the culprits. There should be an emergency court for trying the criminals and immediately convict them. There should be a special law that dictates the kinds of punishment for every kind of complicity […]
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Borno: Zulum worried over rise of ISWAP terrorists
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has expressed strong concern over the increasing presence of terrorists from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in some parts of the State, and called for urgent security measures to curtail their growth. Zulum disclosed this on Wednesday, when he received on courtesy, the Senate Committee […]
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Governor Darius Ishaku Visits Taraba SSS office
Arc. Darius Dickson Ishaku, the Executive Governor of Taraba today paid a thank you visit to the management and Staffs of the State Security Services (SSS), at the Taraba State Command Headquarters, Jalingo. The Governor was received by the State Director of Security (SDS), in the person of Alhaji Bashir Abubakar. In his open address, […]
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OPINION: Insecurity and Buhari’s failed promises
By Sani Adamu Hassan  The present Nigerian security situation is disheartening and worrisome considering the devastating effects whereby day in day out people were been killed, kidnapped and hundred of thousands rendered homeless as a result of the activities of Boko Haram insurgents Bandits, Kidnappers and IPOB among others. Between 2013 to 2014 when […]
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BOKO HARAM/ISWAP: Zulum, Borno Senators meet Defence Chief in Abuja
Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has led the state’s senators to meet Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor at the Defence headquarters in Abuja. Zulum led senators Kashim Shettima (Borno Central), Muhammad Ali Ndume (Borno South) and Abubakar Kyari (Borno North) on Monday, for a closed door meeting, which focused on renewed attacks and […]
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Nine Years After, Zulum Reopens Bama-Banki-Cameroon Road, Gives Army 10 Operational Vehicles
With full participation of the Nigerian military, Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Wednesday, reopened the 65km Bama-Banki boarder road which links to Cameroon and parts of Central Africa. The road had been shut since around 2012 arising from activities of Boko Haram. Zulum, alongside the Theatre Commander, ‘Operation Hadin Kai’, Major General Musa […]
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Boko Haram: Zulum Salutes military for Clearing 25 ISWAP Fighters, Gun Trucks
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has saluted the Nigerian military under the 7 Division Garrison of Operation Hadin Kai for successfully clearing 25 fighters of ISWAP and Boko Haram who manned dozens of gun trucks on Monday evening along Chabbal on Maiduguri-Gubio road. In a statement by his spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, […]
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Tsangaya: How NBAIS Under Prof. Shafi’u Is Reforming Tsangaya Education
By Mu’azu Abubakar Albarkawa, Kaduna The major private stakeholders have shown that there is approximately over 10 million children mostly from very poor background that were enrolled into various Tsangaya schools across the northern part of Nigeria. Tsangaya schools in the North are mostly local in nature and for so many years have not […]
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Regional Security: Zulum, 7 Other Lake Chad Governors meet in CameroonÂ
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, alongside seven other Governors within the Lake Chad Basin, on Monday, met in Younde, Cameroon, to discuss regional security cooperation and path to improve stability. The meeting had six Governors in attendance: Zulum from Borno, Issa Lamine of Diffa in Niger Republic; Midjiyawa Bakari of Far North of Cameroon; Abate Edii […]
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