November 14, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the demise of Brig.-Gen. Dzarma Zirkusu and three soldiers who paid “the supreme sacrifice while fighting terrorists in the Northeast zone of the country”. They were killed in a gun battle with ISWAP members who had launched a reprisal attack at Nigerian troops after many ...

November 10, 2021 The Nigerian troops have killed four ISWAP terrorists at Ngwom community in Mafa Local Government Area, of Borno on Tuesday evening. It was gathered that the terrorists had sneaked into town on six gun trucks through a cattle crossing point within Mafa axis at about 6:50 pm. While the mission of the ...

Oct. 23, 2021 Nigeria’s Borno state, the epicentre of an ongoing Islamist insurgency, will shut all camps that are holding thousands of internally displaced persons by the end of the year, its governor said on Friday, citing improved security in the state. The conflict between the insurgents and Nigeria’s armed forces has also spread to ...

Oct 19, 2021 Nigerian troops killed 24 suspected Islamist insurgents in two attacks in the northeast and recovered some weapons, the army said on Tuesday. Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have been fighting the Nigerian armed forces for more than a decade in a conflict that has killed hundreds ...

Oct. 19, 2021 Nigeria is glad that the Biden administration is fully back on board the Climate Change global agenda, in a commendable restoration of the U.S government’s support for the Paris Agreement, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Osinbajo stated this on Monday when he received at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, a U.S government ...

Sept 30, 2021 The Nigerian military said on Thursday a deadly air strike hit an Islamic State camp and that casualties could not be determined, after witnesses said the attack had killed dozens of civilians in the northeast, where the country is waging a 12-year war against jihadist insurgents. Two Nigerian Air Force planes bombed ...

September 27, 2021 Mr. Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr, a Major General and Director, Defence Information, has given a vivid account of how troops of Operation Hadarin Daji in conjunction with other security agencies, repelled an attack by suspected Islamic States for West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists and bandits. The terrorists had launched a down attack on ...

Sept. 27, 2021 Troops of Sector 2 Joint Task Force North East, Operation HADIN KAI have neutralised two Islamic State West Africa Province/ Boko Haram insurgents during a counter attack by troops responding to insurgents’ infiltration attempt into Babangida community in Tarmuwa Local Government Area of Yobe State, on Sunday 26 September 2021. Arm spokesman, ...

Sept. 16, 2021 French military forces have killed the leader of a West African affiliate of Islamic State by drone strike in a “decisive blow” against the group, and vowed to continue hunting down jihadist leaders to restore stability in the Sahel. Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi was the head of Islamic State in the Greater ...

Sept. 9, 2021 The Nigerian troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) have arrested a high profile Boko Haram member on wanted list in recent raid operations on the terrorists hideouts in parts of the North East. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said ...