The government of Cameroon has handed over two suspected female bombers who claimed to be among the 219 missing Chibok girls abducted in 2014 to Nigeria for proper identification. Maryam Alhaji Wakeel, 12, and Aishatu Usman, a 35-year-old mother of two, were arrested with explosives in Limani, Came...

Military sources on Saturday confirmed the arrest of the leader of the Ansaru Islamic Sect, Khalid Albarnawi, who was described as the second in command to Abubakar Shekau in the hierarchy of the Boko Haram terrorists group. A report by an online portal, The Cable, had quoted Ahmad Salkida, a jou...

The Nigerian military say they have arrested Khalid al-Barnawi, the leader of Nigeria's Ansaru jihadist group. There is speculation over the nature and significance of his affiliation to Boko Haram. In 2012 the U.S. State Department named Ansaru leader Khalid al-Barnawi as one of three Niger...

Abuja - The Federal Government has declared a nationwide state of emergency in a desperate move to end ongoing fuel scarcity in the country. According to a Naij report, the move will mean that private operators will now be responsible for bringing in 60% of the commodity in second quarter import ...

The United Nations says it will relocate its humanitarian coordination centre to Maiduguri to enable it response effectively to the humanitarian crisis created by Boko Haram insurgency in the North-Eastern Nigeria. UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Ms Fatma Samoura, stated this at the end...

Près de onze mois après la signature de l’Accord pour la paix et la réconciliation issu du processus d’Alger, le défi sécuritaire est toujours d’actualité et réduit l’espace humanitaire malgré les efforts déployés par le gouvernement et ses partenaires. La sécurisation des axes empruntés par les rap...

…says cultural orientation needed to succeed against terrorism President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja disclosed that Boko Haram has a strong material resources and has a close link to the international terrorist group ISIL. According to him in a statement by his special adviser media,...

By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani LAGOS, April 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Dauda Yama retrieved his mobile phone from a neighbour's house in January this year, he noticed a missed call from his daughter Saratu who had been missing for almost two years. The last time he spoke with Saratu was...

Fuel scarcity continued across the country on Sunday as hundreds of motorists and other petrol users formed long queues at the filling stations that dispensed the product. This is contrary to the promise by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, that the queues would dis...

Boko Haram has lured young entrepreneurs and business owners in northeast Nigeria to join the Islamist militant group by providing or promising capital and loans to boost their businesses, aid agency Mercy Corps said on Monday. Seeing successful business ownership as a way to escape poverty, many...