Tag: ISWAP

July 1, 2021 The Defence Headquarters says the troops of Operation AWATSE, have arrested a suspected member of Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Sango Otta area of Ogun. ...

June 28, 2021 A group of fighters from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram pledged allegiance to rivals the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) weeks after the former group's leader ...

June 26, 2021 The Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Farouk Yahaya on Saturday said the army is committed to ending the insurgency in the North-East. The army chief made the ...

June 18, 2021 Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume has said the situation in Borno seems to be improving with President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to the ...

June 15, 2021 Ten persons who had been held captive by Islamist militants were freed this week in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, three security sources and two close associates of ...

May 31, 2021 The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has stated that the merger of Boko Haram with ISWAP has become a bigger threat, ...

May 1, 2021 Seeking foreign support to tackle the myriad of security challenges in the country does not mean the Federal Government lacks the capacity to address the issue. This ...

Two young Nigerian soldiers who attempted to capture a Boko Haram informant were killed by terrorists who ambushed them just as the aircraft of the Nigerian Airforce ( NAF) eliminated ...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has stated that a strong link has been established between the bandits terrorising the North West and the Boko Haram insurgents operating in the North ...

Boko Haram militant group has claimed it shot down a Nigerian fighter jet that went missing earlier this week and which the air force said may have crashed, according to ...