-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA (North-East Correspondent): The Nigerian Army on Wednesday handed over to Borno State Government 25 members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, who allegedly denounced the organisation and surrendered to constituted authorities. The Army gave…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Our Correspondents: A Corporal of the Nigerian Army serving at the Theatre Command Operation LAFIYA DOLE, went berserk in the early hours of Wednesday, 26 February 2020 and opened fire killing four of his colleagues before…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA (South East Correspondent): The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), through the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, has destroyed some Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) structures and logistics facilities at Garin Maloma and…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA (South East Correspondent): The Governor of Ebonyi State and Chairman South East Governors’ Forum Chief David Umahi, has acknowledged the contributions of the Nigerian Army in the settlement of land border disputes and bloody…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: The women of Uzere kingdom, Isoko South local government area of Delta State, have protested peacefully to the local government council over renewed kingship tussle by supporters of the traditional rulers of Uzere kingdom as…
Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Mike SOGBOLA: Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has said that the nation might need about 100,000 more soldiers to win the war against Boko Haram. He advised that at least 50,000 people from Borno should be…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike SOGBOLA, North East Correspondent: Sport Festival is currently being organized by African Missions Global (AMG) among internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Maiduguri, the birth place of Boko Haram. The Festival, which commenced on Tuesday at…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME: The public protest, demonstration and outcry of some prominent Christian Religious group yesterday, brought to the front burner, once again, the demoralizing state of insecurity in the nation and the resultant insensitivity of government to…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sagbola (North-East Correspondent): Ruthless and notorious terrorists operating in Nigeria’s North-East, code-named “Boko Haram” have slaughtered two persons sleeping overnight at a military checkpoint in Maiduguri. The insurgents, according to source, also carted away some…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sagbola (North-East Correspondent): Four persons were said to have died during a suicide attack on a mosque in Gwoza, southern Borno. Gwoza was at the peak of ongoing Boko Haram insurgency, the administrative capital of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sagbola (North-East Correspondent): The military has again sealed off another office of an international non governmental organisation in the Northeast. It was learnt that soldiers invaded the Borno office of Adventist Development and Relief Agency…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) From SUNNY A. DAVID: The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested two hundred and forty-nine persons suspected for various drug crimes in the year 2019 as thirty seven of them were convicted. In a release signed by…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): From Mike Sogbola, North East Correspondent: Soldiers and mobile policemen may have reconnected Maiduguri back to the rest of the nation as they have cleared the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway off remnants of Boko Haram that have terrorized motorists in…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Delta State House of Assembly is to collaborate with the State Command of the Nigeria Police Force in ensuring effective crime fighting and prevention at the grassroots.The Speaker of the State Assembly, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori made…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sogbola, Maiduguri: A High Court in Maiduguri, Borno state capital, on Monday remanded Hajiya Aisha Wakil, popularly called Mama Boko Haram to a custodial centre. Mama Boko Haram was standing trial alongside Tahir Saidu and Lawal…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA’, Damaturu: The Network of Yobe Civil Society Organizations has condemned government reaction to the rising insecurity in the Northeast. The group in a signed statement on Monday by it’s Comrade Baba Shehu, said it…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA’ Maiduguri: The United Nations has condemned an attack on its facilities in troubled Northeast. It had last Thursday shown apprehension over growing insecurity in the area, even as it had been reported that some…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Mike SOGBOLA: Boko Haram on Sunday attacked Geidam, one of the major town in Yobe state, forcing the residents into flight. Many of the fleeing residents had to send the night in nearby bushes as the streets…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Omoshola DEJI: Security is the principal obligation of government, because it is the most important need of man. Life is universally considered sacred, but only the lives of the ruling oligarchy is sacred in Nigeria. Being alive…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – Mike SOGBOLA: The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is set to induct the second batch of 2 new AgustaWestland 109 Power Attack Helicopters procured by the Federal Government as part of the fleet enhancement efforts to enable more…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA: The Boko Haram crisis that have engulfed part of Nigeria’s Northeast would be explained through art, poetry, drama and music.The Borno Literary Society will on Saturday (18th January, 2020) host the first-ever performance of local…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael EKOKORUWE: The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Isoko South local government area, CSP Mohammed Nahala, has averted impending crisis between farmers and Fulani herdsmen at Emedel farmland Okpe – Olomoro over malicious destruction of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA: Yobe State Governor, Alhaji Mai-Mala Buni has called on security agencies to step up their game and put a stop to growing insecurity in the nation. Reacting to the attack on the convoy of Emir of…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) -By Austen AKHAGBEME: One of the many things that makes Nigeria an amazingly impossible knot in the eye of some people, and public policy a nightmare, is the multiplicity of contrasting opinion and the plurality of emotion displayed…
Iran’s most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, has been killed by a US air strike in Iraq. The 62-year old spearheaded Iranian military operations in the Middle East as head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. He was killed at Baghdad airport,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): The Delta State Government has appealed to protesting Core Area 2B Landlords Association whose property were demolished by suspected agents an Asaba-based company over ownership of lands in the area. The landlords numbering no fewer than 100 mounted…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday arraigned Hajiya Aisha Alkali Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram before a Borno High Court, Maiduguri on a-three count charge bordering on cheating and onspiracy…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: Criticisms of Borno Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara’s recruitment of 150 Cameroonian vigilantes mere ignorance, Isa Gusau, the governor’s spokesman has hit back. A signed statement by the governor’s spokesman of Sunday, picked out Dr. Ona Ekhomu,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: The Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has destroyed 2 Boko Haram Terrorists’ (BHTs) gun trucks and killed some fighters at Borgozo in Borno State. The Nigerian Air Force Director of Public Relations…
Update>> –Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGNOLA, Damaturu: Residents of Babbangida, in Tarmuwa local government area of Yobe State which was attacked on Wednesdays afternoon by Boko Haram, have alleged that a shot by the NAF jet on a residential quarters…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike SOGBOLA, Damaturu: Suspected members of Boko Haram on Wednesday attacked Babbangida town in Yobe State. The group launched the attack on the town in an ambulance, which they had earlier siezed from a team of…
-Blank NEWS Online NIGERIA –From Mike SOGBOLA, Maiduguri: Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara has deployed 150 Cameroonian vigilantes to flush out remnants of Boko Haram for his state. The newly engaged Cameroonians, who are also equipped for the task, are to work…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike Sogbola: Yobe Police Command on Wednesday said it won’t tolerate herders/farmers clash in the State. The warning was issued by the Yobe Commissioner of Police, Yahaya Abubakar during a meeting organized by his office with farmers and herders. …
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike Sogbola: The North-East Development Commission (NEDC) has assured the Nigerian Army (NA) of its desire and unwavering commitment to repairing roads and other critical infrastructure destroyed as a result of insurgency in North-East. Its Chairman Governing…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – From Mike Sogbola: The Nigerian Army on Tuesday formalised agreement with the Defence Industries Corporation of NIGERIA / Command Engineering Depot on mass production of 28 Mines Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles for its counter terrorism/insurgency and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike Sogbola Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has destroyed an Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) Terrorists’ hideout and neutralized some of their fighters at Arrinna Ciki on the fringes of the Lake Chad…
-Blank NEWS Online NIGERIA: FAKE OPERATION: ARMY URGES NIGERIANS TO DISREGARD BRICKS PUBLICATION ON THE PURPORTED NIGERIAN ARMY OPERATION POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION Following the widespread apprehension on the purported Nigerian Army (NA) operation positive identification from 1 November to 23 December 2019, as…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Mike Sogbola The last definitely has not be held of the barring of activities of two international non governmental agencies, Action Against Hunger and Mercy Corps, as Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), otherwise called Doctors Without…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike Sogbola: In continuation of the sustained onslaught against terrorist elements in the Northeast of the Country, the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has neutralized several Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): –From Mike Sogbola Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara has dragged his commissioner and top aides to the Boko Haram “enclave” in the northern part of the state for a retreat. The northern part of the state is…
