The Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP) has kick-started a massive recruitment exercise of young men from several Internally displaced persons in Borno State.

Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State Thursday called on unrepentant members of the Boko Haram sect to lay down their arms as his government was doing everything possible to return all the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) back to their ancestral homes.

Abuja, Sept. 2, 2020 The Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole has destroyed compounds, housing Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists at Kaza on the Gulumba Gana – Kumshe axis of Borno.

Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, also known as Shiites, on Thursday said they were facing unwarranted harassment from security agents.

The construction of new facilities to support the anticipated 12 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft for the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), the air branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces, has commenced at the Kainji Air Base located in the western state of Niger at the southern end of Lake Kainji.

The Chairman of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Bauchi State, Buba Musa Shehu, spoke bitterly the other day about the sorry conditions of Nigerians who have been forced to flee their homes and farms as a result of acts of criminality by bandits of various hues – herdsmen, kidnapers, armed robbers and terrorists. “Hunger is killing us, we have no one to cater for us … and some of our family members have died in the hands of Boko Haram members.” To boot, he was doubly bitter that, “government is not prioritising how to return us to our ancestral homes but instead spending resources to pardon and rehabilitate nearly 900 so-called repentant Boko Haram members… The government should first rehabilitate those that were offended, if not it is making a grave mistake… We are feeling like non-Nigerians in our country; we own this country together,” said Musa Shehu who represents about 56,000 displaced persons strewn across the 20 councils of the state (Bauchi).

Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has attributed arms proliferation and insurgency in the North East to porous borders with neighbouring countries of Niger, Chad and Cameroun.

Chairman Senate Committee on Cooperation and Integration in Africa/NEPAD, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Enugu East has said that the reopening of Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu would boost the nation’s economic recovery.

Chief of the Air staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has said that new aircraft would be deployed to Benin to boost the fight against insurgency and ensure that the maritime environment of the country is secured.

Members of community in town of Gwoza in Borno state slaughtered by insurgents, says senator

In the past months, Nigeria and Ghana have engaged in diplomatic rows owing to the demolition and seizure of buildings belonging to the Nigeria embassy in the country.

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria on Thursday said Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State should be held responsible for any attack on its members by security officers in the state.

Heavily armed policemen on Sunday allegedly opened fire on Shiites members and religious mourners in Zaria and Kaduna soon after completing this year’s Ashura processions, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has said.

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President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, assured Nigerians and the international community of his administration’s commitment to use the rest of his tenure to improve access to quality education, health care and enhance productivity in a roll call of nine priority areas.

Rights group says government failings leave rural communities in northern Nigeria at the mercy of 'bandits'.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has urged the troops of Operation Lafiya Dole to deploy more of intelligence in prosecuting the ongoing counter-insurgency in the North East.

Kwara state police Commissioner Kayode Egbetokun Tuesday said that crime has become a huge industry in Nigeria.

The attackers on 20 motorcycles stormed Damba-Kasaya village Monday morning, shooting indiscriminately, residents said.

Amid the collapse of oil prices and demand, Nigeria’s oil and gas sector saw its contribution to the economy tumble in the second quarter of this year as it recorded negative growth.

The United Nations (UN) yesterday called on the federal government to combine dialogue with the deployment of force to combat insecurity in Nigeria.
It described Nigeria’s security crisis as complicated as banditry in the North-west is combined with terrorism and asked the federal government to also explore a political solution in fighting insurgency and banditry.