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Posts tagged with "Boko Haram"
Dec. 27 | By John Campbell
While I had said I would not post again until January 3, I felt this weekend’s attacks in Nigeria warranted a response.
‘Boko Haram’, a highly de-centralized Islamic radical movement, has allegedly claimed responsibility for attacks...
Dec. 27 | Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, president, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)
Reuters - Northern Nigerian Christians said on Tuesday they feared that a spate of Chrtistmas Day bombings by Islamast militants that killed over two dozen people could lead...
Dec. 26 | By NAL Staff writer
Nigeria is a unique country, relatively. It’s one of few nations where failure and incompetent are rewarded.
In the wake of the 2011 Christmas bombing that killed more that 25 innocent people in the outskirt of Abuja and thrown the...
Dec. 25 |
Two explosions near churches during Christmas Day services in Nigeria, including one outside the country's capital, killed at least 28 people amid spiralling violence blamed on an Islamist group. Photo credit: Getty Image
Reuters - A bomb...
Sep. 18 |
AFP - Videos have emerged purporting to show members of a Nigerian Islamist sect preparing for suicide attacks, including a young man said to be responsible for last month’s bombing of the UN headquarters. Duration: 00:45.
Aug. 26 | There has been report of fatal bomb explosion at the United Nations office in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
Abuja based news daily, Leadership reports that the explosion occurred at around 10am local time. Although, detail of who could be responsible for...
Jul. 4 | AP - At least 10 people were killed in weekend violence in Nigeria’s restive northeast, said an official on Sunday who attributed some of the strikes to a radical Muslim sect known for similar attacks.
Maj. Gen. Jack Nwachukwu Nwaogbo said...
Feb. 27 | Police said Sunday they had shot dead a man financing a radical Islamist sect in northern Nigeria and arrested another man suspected of supplying the group with arms.
The man financing the Bokom Haram sect, Alhaji Salisu Damaturu, was killed when a...
Feb. 18 | Nigeria’s Senate on Thursday approved the country’s first anti-terrorism act, giving law enforcers greater powers to detain and prosecute suspects and judges more guidance on handing down punishments.
President Goodluck Jonathan pledged...
Jan. 28 | Motorcycle-riding gunmen shot and killed the dominant gubernatorial candidate in a northeast Nigeria state and six others Friday, throwing a region already under attack by a radical Muslim sect into a panic.
Families hid inside their homes and shops...
