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Nine people have been killed and four others injured in a deadly assault on the Malam Fatori community in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, a region once again gripped by rising insurgent violence. Authorities...
A Nigerian Catholic priest who once served in Alaska has been abducted by Boko Haram militants along with other civilians in northeastern Nigeria, the church confirmed. The Rev. Alphonsus Afina, who returned...
This year, 2021, commemorates the 12th anniversary of Mohamed Yusuf’s extrajudicial death in police custody in Borno State, Nigeria, and the beginning of a new and terrible chapter in Boko Haram’s...
Kola Masha is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and the founder of Babban Gona. He founded his firm in 2010 to bring jobs and stability to his home country. Worldwide, Nigeria is ranked among countries with...
In April 2014, the world was in an uproar when 276 teenage girls were abducted by Boko Haram, the insurgent group that is against girls having any form of western education. Two young girls Joy Bishara...
An appellate court in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has upheld the conviction of six Nigerians for funding the terrorist group Boko Haram, Nigeria’s Daily Trust newspaper has reported....
The president of the central African country of Chad, Iddris Deby Itno, is joining front-line efforts to combat the terrorist group Boko Haram in an operation dubbed “The Wrath of Bomo”. Reports...
Hamsatu Allamin retired from public service in 2016 after more than 30 years as an educator. Allamin was forced to become a human rights defender and women’s activists with the rise of the militant...
Resurgence by terrorist group Boko Haram in Cameroon’s Far North region appears not to have been mitigated as suggested by the government. A report by Amnesty International, however, proves otherwise....
Nigerian Archbishop of Jos Benjamin Ben Kwashi and his wife, Gloria, have offered shelter and a safe haven for orphans throughout the years despite coming up against steep challenges. In 2018, during clashes...
Nigeria’s army has banned the activities of a humanitarian agency, Action Against Hunger, after accusing it of aiding and abetting terrorist groups such as Boko Haram and Islamic State. A statement...
It’s a lot of money for anybody to do away with especially when it is deserved. But that isn’t much of a big deal for the immediate past president of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki. Saraki,...
Thanks to one of the world’s deadliest terrorist group in Nigeria, 112 girls are far from celebrating the Christmas holidays for the fifth time since their capture in April 2014 by Boko Haram. Boko...
Boko Haram has waged decades-long war against Nigeria and has been considered one of the deadliest groups. Just recently, the group killed 11 soldiers in a late evening raid in a town in Borno state....
Four years after Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls from a school in the town of Chibok, one of the suspected kidnappers has revealed that he and his colleagues each received...
Many people fondly remember the scene in Marvel’s Black Panther movie where Black Panther, or T’Challa, seeks Nakia, played by beloved Kenyan actress Lupita N’yongo, in the deep forests...
It’s been four years since Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls from a school in the town of Chibok. Many have since been released with 112 still missing. As parents...
Seventy-six out of the 110 schoolgirls kidnapped from the town of Dapchi in February by Nigerian Islamist militant group, Boko Haram have been released. The militant group came with the girls in a motorcade...
Four years after Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls from a school in the town of Chibok, the group has struck again, attacking a boarding school in northern Nigeria. About...
One member of a highly visible terrorist group in Nigeria has been called to task on crimes committed against Nigerian citizens. According to local news portal Leadership, a Federal High Court in...
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