Sentences with phrase «say boko haram»

Local hunters and vigilantes say Boko Haram members are shifting their operational base from Gwoza area to Bama.

Sharibu's mother told local reporters that her daughter's friends said Boko Haram «tried to convince her but she said she will not convert to Islam.»

An 18 - year - old suicide bomber, Amina, who was intercepted by men of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday in Maiduguri, said Boko Haram gave her and her accomplice, the sum of N200 for the mission to buy food.

«Claiming that Nigeria is out of economic recession without any corresponding effect on the living condition of the people is just like they said Boko Haram had been defeated and over 400 people were killed by the insurgents in the last five months,» Fayose said.

The Nigerian Army on Monday said a Boko Haram leader, named Ameer and 19 others were killed in an onslaught against the terrorist group at Dalore camp in Borno State.

Report reaching DAILY POST says Boko Haram insurgents have killed three people and set fire to scores of homes in a raid targeting vulnerable rural communities...

Trump who said his government had decimated the ISIS over the last 12 months, said Boko Haram had been terrible.

Residents of Giwa Barracks said Boko Haram terrorists were trying to take over the state capital while being repelled by the troops.

He said Boko Haram insurgents are by no means defeated but certainly weakened.

Confirming the arrest in a statement, Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman said the Boko Haram suspect is number 26 of the published wanted list and gave his name as Danladi Abdullahi.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Monday, said Boko Haram terrorists had strong links with terror groups in northern Mali.

Not exact matches

The witnesses said the girls were returned by people they thought were Islamist militant insurgents from the Boko Haram group.

«The challenge that this administration has refused to take on is that there is a very real call in the west to defeat and destroy the threat from radical Islamic terrorism, whether it fights under the name of Al Quaeda [sic]... or Boko Haram or ISIS or any of the other dozens of groups that are founded on the central principle of the destruction of the West and the imposition of Sharia law,» Pompeo said in an October interview with the Wichita Eagle newspaper.

The challenge that this administration has refused to take on is that there is a very real call in the west to defeat and destroy the threat from radical Islamic terrorism, whether it fights under the name of Al Quaeda... or Boko Haram or ISIS or any of the other dozens of groups that are founded on the central principle of the destruction of the West and the imposition of Sharia law,» Pompeo said in an Oct. 17 interview with the Wichita Eagle.

At least four people were killed when Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked northeast Nigeria's biggest city, the emergency services said on Friday, as residents returned home.

And as organizations such as ISIS, Boko Haram, or al - Shabaab push out existing governmental structures, the lack of organized law enforcement leads to «minorities suffering at the hands of violent groups,» the report said.

Though, he did say it is possible some of the Chibok girls could be among captives recently freed from operations against Boko Haram.

The Nigerian military says that in an operation this week, they were able to rescue 200 girls and 93 women from the radical Islamic group Boko Haram.

«The battle against Boko Haram should not be limited to the physical realm,» Doeme said.

He said: «Following Boko Haram's abduction of three priests and a nun in the border region by Boko Haram, missionaries are now accompanied by armed soldiers when they celebrate Sunday Mass there.

A government official said the decision was «part of a broader regional effort to stop the spread of Boko Haram and other violent extremist organizations in West Africa.»

But now, as Boko Haram's numbers decrease, Nigerian residents are saying that the Nigerian military is resorting to the worst possible method of flushing out the remaining members.

It said the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo remain «incredibly vulnerable» due to political unrest and worsening violence, while Boko Haram remain a major source of concern in Nigeria.

Ayodele had also said and it is reproduced here: «After the removal of PDP from office, militants will arise from Niger Delta who will be worse than Boko Haram because they will do what Boko Haram did not do.»

On Friday, at 8:00 am, he will be forcibly put on board a flight and sent to Abuja, Nigeria, where he says he will be targeted by Islamic terror group Boko Haram.

He said «The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Police on Sept. 24 at about 2: 00 p.m., arrested a wanted Boko Haram terrorist, Idris Ibrahim Babawo, believed to be number 156 on the wanted Boko Haram terrorists list.

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC said, the command in Maiduguri is set to hand over six repentant Boko Haram Insurgents in its custody to the Nigerian Army.

Asked what she regarded as the government's major achievement, she said it was to improve security in the north - east where militant Islamist group Boko Haram has waged an insurgency since 2009.

The names that fill newspapers these days are ISIS, Boko Haram, Al - Queda; the hashtags that circulate on social media now — and I will say their names — are of Sandra Bland, who died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody in Texas; Aylan Kurdi a young Syrian boy who, along with his family, washed up on the shore of a beach in Turkey; Madau Gach Dut, one of the thousands who have died in the conflict in South Sudan.

Perhaps Boko Haram have, as he said, killed members of his family in Nigeria.

«During the encounter, the troops killed 10 Boko Haram terrorists, captured two alive and rescued a woman with her baby held hostage by the terrorists,» Usman said.

Mr. Mokuy, who is also Equatorial Guinea's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, said that President Mbasogo was impressed by the progress Nigeria was making, under President Buhari's leadership, towards ending the Boko Haram insurgency.

The lawmaker said the PDP government handed over modern fighting equipment to the APC government adding that no significant progress has been recorded in the battle against Boko Haram.

Criticising regional leaders, he singled out Cameroon's President Paul Biya, whose government on Wednesday said troops had killed 60 Boko Haram fighters and arrested 21 others in recent weeks.

«Should we now say that Lai Mohammed and President Buhari sponsored Boko Haram because they spoke against the federal government's clampdown on the insurgents then?»

Boko Haram released another video on Monday showing the execution of three men said to be government spies.

Speaking at the occasion, the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan - Ali said the Armed Forces are consolidating the gains of Boko Haram, adding the insurgents have been decimated.

Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu who spoke at the convention said «Boko Haram is all over Nigeria» now that despite the PDP government chasing the Boko Haram insurgents to the Sambisa Forest by this time last year.

Fayose said; «It is on record that on June 10, 2013, it was widely reported in the media that the current Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who was the National Publicity Secretary of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said that the proscription of Boko Haram was against the constitution, that it stifled the press and tampered with the fundamental human rights of Nigerians.

The Nigerian Army says three of its soldiers fighting to dislodge Boko Haram terrorists and two members of Civilian JTF were killed in a confrontation with Terrorists in Borno while three of the terrorists were also killed.

In a statement on Monday, by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose also urged the President to tell Nigerians the truth about the Boko Haram insurgency, saying, «They keep telling us that they have defeated Boko Haram technically while Nigerians are still being killed daily by Boko Haram, with over 100 people killed in Dalori, less than 12 km to Maiduguri, Borno State capital.

«Negotiations are ongoing to exchange the remaining girls with Boko Haram detainees we can't afford to keep them any longer,» she said.

Osai said: «The release of 82 of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls by the armed group Boko Haram is a big relief.

Spain said, «The Government of Spain reiterates its solidarity with the people and Government of Nigeria over the inhumane suffering that Boko Haram has caused in recent years.

He said despite the challenges, the Nigerian military is undeterred by the mutating posture of the Boko Haram, as the Nigerian Army is determined to consolidate on its recent gains in the ongoing push especially in the Northern part of Borno.

She said, «I remember a time when the Army said, and it is in the book, that the Ministry of Finance was withholding resources and therefore they were not able to fight Boko Haram, and it was in the papers.

He explained that Nigeria was happy with the U.S. trying to see the end of ISIS, saying this has helped Nigeria a lot because the Boko Haram in Nigeria had one time made a statement that they belonged to ISIS.

Says the government has been ineffective and lacks the willpower to fight Boko Haram.

Buratai said, the Operation LAST HOLD to totally clear Boko Haram in the northern part of Borno was expected to last for 4 months and it will entail deployment of additional manoeuvre brigades and other critical assets in Borno State.

Omokri who said he was speaking on behalf of former President Jonathan said «It is our suspicion that Lai Mohammed is talking from history seeing as he criticized the Jonathan government for banning Boko Haram in a statement he released on June 10, 2013, even though the Jonathan government had gone through due process before proscribing that murderous sect.