The City Reporters Soldiers deployed to the restive North-East region of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno States to combat the Boko Haram insurgents have blamed their inability to stem the tide of terrorism and dissertation on military hierarchy. According to one of the disenchanted soldiers who spoke to The City Reporters exclusively under anonymity in Yola, […]
The City Reporters Facts emerging from terror-ravaged Borno State of Nigeria have lend credence to the fictitiousness of the ceasefire the government claimed it had with Boko Haram as the Nigerian Army killed no less than 25 members of the sect in a shootout at Damboa. Government sources had said the truce was reached with […]
The City Reporters Apparently moved by the advise of the Pakistan child educationist, Malala Yousafzai, President Goodluck Jonathan is currently meeting with parents of the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok, Borno State on April 14 behind closed-doors. The meeting which is holding inside the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja has in attendance also, the […]
The City Reporters The Senate on Thursday in strong terms condemned the plan by the Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha over his plans to issue identification cards to northerners residing in the state. Okorocha had in a recent statement directed northern indigenes in Imo state to submit themselves for identification by the state government as […]
The City Reporters The All Progressives Congress, APC, has criticized the strategy being applied by President Goodluck Jonathan’s led Federal Government in its fight against terrorism, saying it has failed to yield the desirable result. In a statement issued in Lagos, Sunday, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on behalf of the APC […]
The City Reporters No fewer than 21 soldiers and five civilians were killed on Tuesday after a deadly attack on a military check near Damboa village, 85km south of Maiduguri the capital city of Northeast Nigerian state, Borno, military sources and witnesses said. The attackers according to soldiers who were lucky to escape the onslaught, […]
The City Reporters The Defence Headquarters has said over 50 Boko Haram insurgents on a mission to attack some villages in Borno and Adamawa States, have been killed by the Nigerian troops who engaged them on a fierce gun battle. The attack was said to have taken place along Bilta, Borno State, at about 10pm […]
A leader of a protest march for 276 missing schoolgirls said that Nigeria’s first lady ordered her and another protest leader arrested Monday, expressed doubts there was any kidnapping and accused them of belonging to the Islamic insurgent group blamed for the abductions. The first lady’s office denied there were any arrests. Saratu Angus Ndirpaya […]
The City Reporters Nigerian soldiers recently deployed to Nasarawa State to contain recurring communal clashes along Nasarawa-Benue border have killed over 30 suspected Fulani insurgents in a Thursday morning raid on Mararaban Giza community of Keana local government area. The bodies of 10 of the suspected insurgents killed in the operation were deposited at the Dalhatu […]
The City Reporters It is no longer news that Nigerian soldiers, on Sunday, shot and kill about 20 members of terrorist group, Boko Haram, who were attempting an escape from the Department of State Security Service (DSS) in Asokoro, Abuja. The heavy gunfire exchanges preceding the killing of the insurgents lasted for about four hours. […]