How soldiers raped us and forced us to deny it - Displaced women

The IDPs said they lost their children because the soldiers only gave them food in exchange for sex.
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More Boko Haram Terrorists Surrender To Army Troops

The statement quoted the terrorists as saying that they were fleeing Boko Haram hideouts in Kafe, Njubulla and Buk in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State.

Oshiomhole: Jonathan was not competent enough to continue as president

Adams Oshiomhole

Adams Oshiomhole, immediate past governor of Edo state, says former president Goodluck Jonathan was not competent enough to continue with the leadership of the country in 2015.

Buhari gets strong warning from his wife

– Aisha Buhari has warned her husband that she may not back him at the next election unless he shakes up his government

 – She says his government had been hijacked by a “few people” who are behind presidential appointments

 – The wife of the president claims Buhari “does not know” most of the top officials he has appointed

Boko Haram ‘names’ al-Barnawi as new leader

The Islamic State (IS) says its terror affiliate in Nigeria, Boko Haram, has appointed a new leader.

Racist Football Fan Beats Nigerian Immigrant To Death In Italy

The Nigerian asylum seeker in Italy had been gruesomely murdered by racist footbal fan.

The Nigerian man identified as Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi was yesterday attacked in the city of Fermo, Italy where he was left in a coma due to the attack.

Amina Ali Mkeki, one of the Chibok girls infamously kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 has been rescued near Sambisa Forest, government sources and activists have told SaharaReporters.

Nigerian soldiers foil suicide attack at army base

Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Nigerian soldiers shot dead a suspected suicide bomber outside a military base in the northeast on Sunday, detonating explosives concealed in her handbag, a civilian vigilante and a military source told AFP.

Wife Of Boko Haram Commander Makes Shocking Revelation

Twenty-one-year old Tabitha Adamu, one of the women freed from the sect’s camp and handed over to the Borno State Government last week, said the girls had turned to Boko Haram fighters.
Tabitha, who is expectant for one of the sect’s commanders who forcibly married her, said she mingled with the girls at various times in the sect’s camp.

Boko Haram Attacks Maiduguri Again

Relation of one of the officers and soldiers killed in Borno, Yobe states amid weeping during their burial at the National Military Cemetery in Abuja.

Boko Haram militants on Tuesday launched a renewed attack on Maiduguri just days after the military repelled an assault on the key city. Residents said the Islamists arrived in the Moronti area of the city by river but were unable to advance further because of wide ditches and embankments dug by soldiers around the city limits.

Boko Haram Militants Seize Cameroon Vice PM's Wife

YAOUNDE, July 27 (Reuters) - Boko Haram militants attacked Kolofata, a town in Cameroon's Far North Region near Nigeria, on Sunday and seized several people including the wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali, a military commander in the region said.

"The situation is very critical here now, and as I am talking to you the Boko Haram elements are still in Kolofata town in a clash with our soldiers," said Colonel Felix Nji Formekong, the second commander of Cameroon's third inter-army military region (RMIA3) based in the regional headquarters Maroua.

Nigeria Explosion Kills 13 At World Cup Viewing Center

At least 13 people including young children were killed when a bomb tore through a venue in Northeast Nigeria where fans had gathered to watch a World Cup soccer match, witnesses said.

Some people at the scene told Reuters an attacker dropped a device in front of the venue on Tuesday night in the town of Damaturu and ran off, while others said it was the work of a suicide bomber.

No one claimed responsibility for the blast, but Damaturu and the surrounding Yobe state are at the heart of a five-year-old insurgency by Islamist group Boko Haram.

The group was blamed for a an attack on another venue screening soccer matches in the northeastern state of Adamawa that killed at least 14 people and wounded 12..

A Reuters reporter at Damaturu's General Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital counted 13 people dead - including small children - and at least 20 wounded.

The Nigerian government has advised people to avoid gathering in public to watch the World Cup, concerned about potential attacks.

Many fans in soccer-mad Africa rely on informal venues - often open-sided structures with televisions set up in shops and side streets - to watch live coverage of the sport.

culled from Reuters

Chibok Girls Forcefully Converted Islam

Boko Haram video emerged Monday purportedly showing some of the kidnapped Nigerian girls in headdresses and the terror group's leader declaring they have converted to Islam.

The 27-minute footage shows girls wearing Hijab headdresses and reciting the Quran as they make Islamic declarations of faith.

It was shot in a nondescript area of a bush.

Last month, a convoy of Islamist militants drove into a school in northeastern Nigeria, abducted nearly 300 girls and fled into the night. At least 276 girls remain missing since the terror group seized them on April 14.