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Boko Haram  The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar has said that about 300 Boko Haram members were killed by the Nigerian Air Force in a raid in Borno State. Abubakar said this on Monday in Bama, while addressing men and officers of the Nigerian Air Force. “I cannot but say thank you. I am very happy to note that since  August 16 to now, you undertook extensive air operations and we were able to deal with these terrorists trying to make life difficult for our people. “I want to say from the briefing that I received from the Air component commander that I am satisfied with what you have done. “Of particular note is the operation you conducted on the 19th of this month, it was a night operation and we were very lucky to deal with these guys (insurgents) who had en-massed and were planning an attack . We are very happy to note that about 300 of them will not be available to commit evil again.”

Members of the Boko Haram sect on Saturday attacked a village in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State, killing 6 persons and abducting 13 others.

The Nigerian Military on Tuesday in Abuja said that no fewer than 8000 Boko Haram members had voluntarily surrendered to its “Operation Safe Corridor’’ in the North-East. The Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Rabe Abubakar, disclosed this at a lecture organised by the FCT Correspondents’ Chapel of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).

The Defence authorities have described the claim by the Boko Haram that some of the Chibok girls were killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force as propaganda. The acting Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, told our correspondent on the telephone on Sunday that the equipment used by the military in the bombing of the Sambisa forest had a high level of precision in hitting targets. He said the insurgents

Boko Haram on Sunday released a video of the girls allegedly kidnapped from Chibok in April 2014, showing some who are still alive and claiming others died in air strikes. The video is the latest release from embattled Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, who earlier this month denied claims that he had been replaced as the leader of the jihadist group. “They should know that their children are still in our hands,” said a man whose face was covered by a turban in the video posted on YouTube. “There is a number of the girls, about 40 of them, that have been married by the decision of Allah,” said the man in the 11-minute video, which shows girls with veils sitting on the ground and standing in the background. “Some of them have died as a result of aerial bombardment.” The mass kidnapping of 276 Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014 provoked global outrage and brought unprecedented attention on the Boko Haram conflict, in which at least 20,000 people have been killed since 2009...

Boko Haram’s shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau has appeared in a new video vowing to fight on, shrugging off an apparent split in the hardline jihadist group blamed for thousands of deaths since 2009. “I… Abubakar Ash-Shakawy (Shekau), the leader of Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, made it a duty for myself (to fight) Nigeria and the whole world,” Shekau said in the video released on Sunday, using the group’s name since it declared allegiance to the so-called Islamic State. Last week, Shekau said in an audio message he was still head of the group despite his purported replacement by Sheikh Abu Musab al-Barnawi, a former Boko Haram spokesman. “We have no desire to fight our Muslim brethren,” Shekau, who last appeared in March, said in the 24-minute video. Shekau ridiculed suggestions that he was dead, and looked more composed and energetic than in previous appearances. “I’m alive by the permission of Allah,” he said in his speech in Arabic and Hausa, adding that h...

The Islamic State (IS) militant group, last week, announced that its West African affiliate Boko Haram has a new leader. The Federal Government immediately dismissed the announcement, saying it was mere propaganda by the “defeated terrorist organisation”. But a security report, Dr Ona Ekhomu, asked government to see danger in the appointment of the new Boko Haram leader. Abu Musab al-Barnawi, who was previously spokesman for the Nigerian-based Islamists, is featured in the latest issue of an IS magazine. It did not say what has become of the group’s former leader, Abubakar Shekau. He was last heard from in an audio message last August, saying he was alive and had not been replaced – an IS video released in April said the same. Boko Haram, which has lost most of the territory it controlled 18 months ago, is fighting to overthrow Nigeria’s government. Its seven-year insurgency has left 20,000 people dead, mainly in the country’s north-east. In the interview in IS’s w...

The Islamic state militant group (ISIS) has named a new leader for the terrorist group, Boko Haram. His name is Abu Musab Al-Barnawi, a former spokesman for the group. Former Leader of Boko Haram ISIS revealed the identity of the new leader, but did not say what has happened to the group’s former leader, Abubakar Shekau, who was last heard from in an audio message in August 2015. Boko Haram had on March 7, 2015, pledged allegiance to the leadership of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The pledge was made by Shekau, who addressed himself as the Imam of Ja­maátu Ahlus Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad (Boko Haram) and was addressed to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Husseini al-Qurashi, the lead­er of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). A week after Boko Haram’s pledge of allegiance, the ISIS leadership in a statement accepted the sect into its fold and promise to work with it to establish an ISIS cell in West Africa. In an audio message, a...

A provincial governor in Cameroon has said that the suicide attack by the Boko Haram insurgents killed 11 people while many others sustained different wounds. The governor warned civilians not to break special security measures meant at preventing such attacks. A security source said the suspected insurgent blew himself up in the town of Djakana near the Nigerian border overnight. He said: “Seven people were killed immediately, including the bomber.” The source added that most of the victims were members of a local vigilante group charged with hunting down Boko Haram members. “They were gathered in a video room when the attacker entered and triggered his explosives,” he added. Midjiyawa Bakari, the governor of the region, told reporters that 11 people had died and four had been wounded. He stated that “the imprudence of the youths running the video club,” “While such activities are forbidden, they take risks in showing films at night in the bush… “We are asking on the ...

Contrary to the report by the Nigerian army that the boko haram insurgents have been trapped in Sambisa forest, the group has stormed a village in Borno state and slit throats of four women. – The local vigilantes supposed that the insurgents came after the men, but unable to find them killed their wifes. Local vigilantes, who are helping Nigerian army, have said that the deadly Boko Haram sect stormed a village near Maiduguri, killing at least four women. AFP reports that 14 Boko Haram fighters on seven motorcycles raided Mairari village, 80 kilometres from the Borno state capital, on June 10, Friday and took four women from their housed and slit their throats. The victims were aged between 27 and 45. “They went into four homes while residents were breaking their fast around 7:00 pm, brought out the four women and slaughtered them,” Babakura Kolo, a vigilante in Maiduguri told reporters. “We believe the killings were targeted, the gunmen...

Boko Haram insurgents have attacked the border town of Kannama in the northern part of Yobe state Nigeria. Kannama which is close to the Niger border with Nigeria was attacked on Monday, June 6 on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, The Nation reports. Security sources who confirmed the attack said the insurgents failed in their attempt to over run the town, adding that no life was lost. However, the state police commissioner Chika Abubakar Maidama said that three of his men who were hospitalized at the Geidam General Hospital following the attacks have been discharged. He said the insurgents carted away with food items and other valuables during the attack. A resident of Kannama, Shehu Adamu, told the Nation newspaper that the “insurgents stormed the town yesterday by 9:00 in the evening shooting sporadically and attacked the divisional police station. They also attack some shops in the town in search of food”. Following the attack, more security forces have been d...