As the US weighs cutting support to the French-led counterterrorism effort in northwest Africa, Maj. Gen. Gayler, director of operations for @USAfricaCommand traveled with French military leadership to outposts in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger & Chad to engage with French forces
Three die, eight injured in road crash at Anambra
1 year agoThe management of Radio Bayelsa has suspended nine workers after hoodlums attacked the station to protest the supreme court's judgement sacking governor-elect David Lyon
1 year agoA third claim for today - this time ISWAP says its fighters burned 20 buildings in Kukawa yesterday
1 year agoISWAP claims to have killed and wounded several Nigerian soldiers in Rann yesterday. The attack was reported yesterday evening by @SembeTv. Still nothing about the Auno attack from ISWAP
Bandits shoot down police helicopter in Kaduna State
Special Operatives of Operation Puff Adder of the Nigeria Police backed by the Special Forces of the Police Airwing, in a offensive operation, stormed one of the largest operational camps of the Ansaru Group located in Kuduru Forest, Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State and successfully neutralized several high-profile members
US official confirms travelban being extended to nationals of Eritrea, Kyrgzstan, Myanmar (Burma), Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania
1 year agoISWAP claims killing 13 troops (locals estimate 8 wounded as well) when it attacked their position at Mainok, seizing 3 vehicles & 20+ small arms & ammo.
1 year agoA third claim of the day, again from Damboa-Biu road as ISWAP claims to have killed two soldiers there two days ago
1 year agoISWAP claims to have killed three Nigerian soldiers on the road between Jakana and Auno in an attack on a checkpoint
The Police Command in Kaduna State yesterday confirmed the death of six people during an attack by gunmen on the Emir of Potiskum, Alhaji Umaru Bubaram, on the Kaduna-Zaria Highway
Police assure of safe rescue of kidnap victims along Kaduna-Zaria highway
Police confirm bandits' attack on Emir of Potiskum, say six persons killed
1 year agoOn the Jakana-Auno road in Borno state IS-West Africa militants claimed today to have captured 2 Christian Nigerian soldiers and police along with a vehicle
1 year agoISWAP claim to have carried out an SVBIED attack against a Nigerian Army base in Monguno today, alleging to have killed 8 soldiers
ISWAP claims that it executed two christian fighters which the group had previously captured in the province of Borno, in Nigeria
1 year agoISWAP claims to have killed and wounded several Nigerian soldiers and captured two vehicles in Ajiri/Ajeri
Unidentified gunmen kill 19 people in central Nigeria
Boko Haram attacks Michika in Adamawa
1 year agoA day after the ambush claim, IS-West Africa photographs of a vehicle and weapons captured in the attack on a Nigerian army convoy near Mainok, Borno state
Islamic state executes eleven hostages in Nigeria
1 year agoISWAP has released new photos showing the spoils seized from the Nigerian Army in Borno, Nigeria
Suspected Rapist Lynched To Death In Calabar On Christmas Day
Borno govt confirms 2 dead in Biu attack
Niger arrested two Turks for trying to support the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara. The two, as well as a third individual (a local Nigerien), were arrested after flying in from Istanbul
UN horrified by killing, kidnap of aid workers in Borno, Yobe
1 year agoIn a second claimed attack today IS-West Africa claimed to have fired five 120 mm mortar shells at a Nigerian army base in Malam Fatori, Borno state, the site of frequent insurgent attacks
1 year agoIn a third attack in Borno state, on a Nigerian army base in Cross Kauwa near Lake Chad, IS-West Africa militants claimed to have fired 5 120 mm mortar shells
1 year agoIn a second attack in Borno state IS-West Africa insurgents claimed to have fired 4 heavy mortar shells at a Nigerian army base in Monguno