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Boko Haram Insurgency And How To Curb Future Terrorism In Nigeria By Bin Zak

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Boko Haram was an Islamic sect founded in 2002 by Mallam Mohammed Yusuf in Maiduguri, the capital of the North-eastern state of Borno. Its tenets were built on the “Khawarij sect” ideology, an Islamic group which emerged in the first century of Islam due to the leadership tussle that ensued between Ali and Muawiyah on who to succeed Caliph Uthman, the then Muslims’ president after his demise. The Kharijites( Khawarij members) were previously a rank in Ali’s army before they seceded owing to the latter objection to the diplomatic mechanism…

18 killed in Boko Haram attacks on army base, villages

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Boko Haram killed at least 18 people and wounded scores in coordinated attacks overnight on a military camp and villages around the flashpoint Nigerian city of Maiduguri, which they also tried to infiltrate across a defensive trench, officials said Monday. The brazen operation — which unfolded around the very city where Boko Haram was born — turned the spotlight on the authorities’ struggle to quell the jihadists’ nearly nine-year-old offensive. Boko Haram fighters attacked a military base in the Cashew Plantation area at the entrance to the city with suicide…

Dapchi Schoolgirl: We Were Flown In Planes and Taken Over Rivers In Boats

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More curious details about how the Dapchi schoolgirls were returned to their town by Boko Haram on Wednesday morning have emerged, with one of the girls telling a British newspaper, The Guardian, that they were flown in planes, and taken over rivers in boat by the terrorists. Hafsat Abdullahi phoned the British newspaper on Wednesday afternoon to say her 16-year-old sister Fatima, who had been taken, had been dropped off in Dapchi. She puts her sister on the phone. “It took us three days to get back to Dapchi,” said…

UN Secretary Announces Evacuation Aid Worker In Troubled Northeast Nigeria

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United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the evacuation of all humanitarian personnel and the temporary suspension of all humanitarian deliveries in Rann town, in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. “All humanitarian personnel have been evacuated from Rann, and all humanitarian deliveries in the area have been temporarily suspended”. The body called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to apprehend and prosecute those who carried out the attack on Rann town. He condemned the killing of three aid workers in Rann, following an attack by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on…

EU Condemns Dapchi School Attack

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The European Union EU has condemned the recent Boko Haram attack on Government Girls Secondary School Dapchi ,Bursari Local Government Area of Yobe State where One hundred and five girls got missing. In a statement by Press Officer of EU Abuja office, Modestus Chukwulaka , the EU extended its solidarity with the affected families and the people of Nigeria. EU said “Targeting children and abducting young girls as they seek to attend school is an attack on our common humanity.” The girls deserve freedom and a chance to shape their own future. The…

Dapchi Girls: Buhari is Emboldening, Not Degrading, Boko Haram By Farooq Kperogi

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The abduction of innocent school girls in Dapchi, Yobe State, is yet another evidence of the falsehood about Buhari’s “success” in downgrading Boko Haram. I have called out these lies several times in the past at the cost of inviting smears and ad hominem attacks on myself. But I don’t care. It’s an insignificant price to pay for standing for the truth. Contrary to claims that his government has downgraded Boko Haram, Buhari is actually bolstering the group. For evidence, look at these facts: As a reward for releasing 84…

48 Of The Missing 94 School Girls After Boko Haram Attack in North East Nigeria Have Returned – Official

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The Yobe state government has said that 48 out of the 94 girls declared missing after Boko Haram attack on their school in Dapchi town on Monday evening have returned. The state commissioner for education, Mohammed Lamin, said 28 of the school girls returned on Tuesday, while another 20 returned on Wednesday. Gunmen suspected to be militants of Boko Haram had invaded Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi on Monday with truck and heavy ammunition. But the students were reported to have scampered to safety on hearing the sounds of the…

Boko Haram Attacks Girls School in Yobe

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Boko Haram jihadists launched an attack on a girls boarding school in northeast Nigeria but the students and teachers fled to safety, witnesses said Monday. A convoy of fighters in pickup trucks descended on Dapchi village in the Bursari area of Yobe state around 6 pm (1700 GMT) targeting the school, resident Sheriff Aisami told AFP. “When they stormed the village they began shooting and setting off explosives,” Aisami said. “This drew the attention of the girls in the Girls Science Secondary School, so the girls and the teachers were able to escape…

NAF Remotely Pilots Aircraft in Destroying Terrorists Vehicle in Sambisa

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A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), on Monday , successfully destroyed an emerging Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) vehicle workshop in the Sambisa general area. A NAF Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform had previously discovered that BHT vehicles were parked in the location. Consequently, a NAF RPA was detailed to conduct armed reconnaissance in search of BHT vehicles and terrorists around the location, which was apparently being used as a vehicle workshop. Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya in a statement said…

B’Haram kills three in Adamawa as Reps visit Buratai

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The Boko Haram insurgents have struck the Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State, killing three persons and injuring two others in a village identified as Pallam. Our correspondent learnt that the Boko Haram fighters, said to be in large numbers, came on motorcycles and attacked the village, during which many of the residents were displaced. This is just as the House of Representatives’ Committee on the Army visited the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Tuesday at the Army Headquarters, Abuja, to review the efforts on…