Borno

The Nigerian Army says troops of operation Desert Sanity have found the wreckage of a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) jet that went off radar over 11 months ago. The Alpha Jet aircraft (NAF475) disappeared off the radar while on its way to…

The Nigerian Army on Friday confirmed the arrest of a soldier for alleged killing of seven civilians, including a three-year-old girl in Mafa Local Government Area of Borno. Col. Obinna Azuikpe, Intelligence Coordinator, Theatre Command…

The Police Command in Borno has arrested a suspect who specialised in defrauding his victims by pretending to be a spirit with powers to make them wealthy. The Commissioner of Police (CP), Abdu Umar, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…

Troops of the Nigerian military under Operation Hadin Kai in Borno State have recovered 500 goats from members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State. It was learnt that the rescue…

Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum, on Thursday, described as “very scary” some findings submitted to him by a committee he constituted and tasked with conducting basic literacy and numeracy competency assessment of 17,229 local…

Gudumbali, a town in Borno State has been declared as the Caliphate headquarters of the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). ISWAP said Gudumbali is now its Manhaja Jundun Khilafah…

More than a dozen girls were abducted in Boko Haram’s latest attack in a community in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, according to a resident. Daily Trust had reported how the insurgents broke into the town on Thursday night…

Travellers in some communities in Borno State are now being forced by militants of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction of the Boko Haram, to pay what they call, taxes. Military sources told SaharaReporters that the…

Suspected bandits, on Friday evening, stormed Chibok community in Borno State, killed three civilians and burnt several houses. Recall that bandits first attacked Chibok community in April 2014, kidnapped over 200 Chibok girls from a…

Boko Haram insurgents reportedly abducted several mobile police officers at a training school in Limankara, Gwoza local government area of Borno State on Thursday. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Army, Ali Ndume, hails from…