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About 190 schoolgirls remain missing after being abducted last week by Boko Haram insurgents, their head teacher, Asabe Kwabura, told the British Broadcasting Corporation on Monday. She said the parents of 230 girls had reported them missing but that 40 had managed to escape from the insurgents. The 190 figure is far more than   the 77 given […]

We have just learned that suspected members of the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, have abducted 103 students in a daring raid at the Girls Secondary School in Chibok, a town on the border between Borno and Adamawa States.  The group’s assault on the all-female high school took place on Monday night. A security source […]

Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect  have killed seven policemen and one civilian in an attack  at Gwaram local government of Jigawa state. The gunmen   attacked a police station, Sharia court and bank in the early hours of Wednesday during which there was  an  exchange  of  fire with the  terrorists which […]

A soldier has claimed that he witnessed incidents that suggested some military  chiefs work  with Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East. The soldier told the Voice of America Hausa Service  how his military unit in Borno State was ambushed by Boko Haram members. He  said the commander of a nearby military unit in Bama recently sought assistance […]

No fewer than an estimated 2,000 insurgents were killed in a combined operation by Special Forces and the men of the Air Force on Friday and Saturday in the volatile Sambisa Forest of Borno State, which has become a prominent hideout of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram. What would have been a great victory […]

Two thunderous explosions, suspected to be from detonated bombs, were heard in the city at about 6.15 p.m. on March 1, 2014, Saturday. Terrorists in two vans, pretending to be firewood suppliers, detonated the bombs at a densely populated Ajilari ward, Jere Council area of Maiduguri, near Ngomari-Bulumkutu. According to PREMIUM TIMES panic and confusion hit […]

Communities in Madagali and Michika local government areas of Adamawa State sharing border with Borno State and the Cameroon Republic were in the wee hours of Wednesday under severe attacks by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents, killing 25 persons while many others were wounded. The Public Relations Officer of the 23rd Armoured Brigade, […]

Death toll in the Tuesday massacre of students of the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi in Yobe State, by members of the insurgent group, Boko Haram Islamic sect, has risen to 59, hospital officials said on Wednesday. The officials said a 16-year-old boy who died of gunshot wounds suffered from the attackers raised the toll to […]

Mass killing of school children at the Federal Government College in the Buni Yadi area of Yobe was shrouded in mystery after reports revealed that only male students were killed. It has been learnt, however that the extremists intentionally spared the female students. According to the officials, female students at the co-ed school were spared […]

Men suspected to be members of the Islamic Sect, Boko Haram, today Tuesday Feb 25th launched an attack on students of the Federal Government College Buni-Yadi Yobe state, killing 29 students, Hausa Service BBC reports. Some buildings in the school were also reportedly razed. Sources at the school said the men invaded the school in […]