Tag Archives: Military

Boko Haram inflicted a final act of vengeance on a town in northern Nigeria, abducting up to 500 women and children as the gunmen fled a counter offensive, according to local people. The insurgents rounded up their victims as they evacuated Damasak in the face of an attack by Chad’s …

More than 200 girls who were abducted by Boko Haram from government secondary school, Chibok, Borno State, in April 2014 are in Gwoza, The Cable, an online medium, on Wednesday quoted Mbutu Papka, a woman who was recently freed after eight months in the sect’s captivity, to have said. Papka, …

Travellers to Ekiti, Ondo and Osun states were briefly delayed on Wednesday as gun-wielding soldiers manning strategic points on the highway stopped their buses for search. The soldiers peeped into the boots of the buses, asked the drivers about the contents of the bags and thereafter waved to them to …