Sentences with phrase «under boko haram»

They chose this place because Monguno sits at a crossroads, strategically placed between Marte and Abadam, two districts that remain under Boko Haram's control.

The stories people tell of life under Boko Haram will break your heart.

Whatever disease surveillance systems existed crumbled under Boko Haram.

«Since December 2015, the well - motivated and rejuvenated Nigerian military have regained all Nigerian territories previously under Boko Haram control.»

Troops of 3 Battalion under 22 Brigade on Friday, 20th October 2017 at about 11.30 am while on routine patrol came under Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) ambush...

The former NSA further said, «We utilized some of these equipment to recover more than 22 local governments under Boko Haram terrorists and ensured that Shekau did not disrupt the 2015 election as he had threatened.

GAW further explained that AI failed to recognize the current threats the nation and its citizenry face under Boko Haram's campaign of terror and horror, and its threat to the collective existence of man in this part of the world.

Recall that a relative of one of the rescued Chibok girls, Peter Joseph, raised the alarm that the Federal Government had barred the girls, from sharing their experience under Boko Haram captivity with their parents.

Nwachukwu dismissed as «misleading», reports indicating that seven of the 27 local government areas of Borno State were still under Boko Haram control.

Under you Boko Haram has gone from bad to worse.

Troops of 3 Battalion under 22 Brigade on Friday, 20th October 2017 at about 11.30 am while on routine patrol came under Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) ambush close to Missini Village along Dikwa — Ngala road, northern part of Borno State.

Under them Boko Haram has resurrected, restored its fortunes and won back virtually all the territory that they had lost when President Goodluck Jonathan was in power.

Not exact matches

«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.

Endeavour Forum is one of the few women's organisations which speaks out against the oppression of women under Islam — not just radical Islam as in ISIS and Boko Haram, but mainstream Islam which allows polygamy, child marriage, discrimination against women in divorce proceedings and inheritance laws.

Radical Islam gained a foothold in the early 1980s, strengthened after the 1999 election, took on the name Boko Haram, and blew up into a military insurgency in 2009 under a new leader, Abubakar Shekau, according to the report.

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.

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.

YSFON's National President, Alhaji Nasiru Yusuf Gawura who agreed that the military displayed operational competences in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists appealed that the armed forces under

Boko Haram killed far and wide under Jonathan.

According to him, Troops of 151 and 202 Battalions of 21 Brigade Nigerian Army, under Operation LAFIYA DOLE in furtherance of clearance and blockade Operation DEEP PUNCH II in separate but well - coordinated attacks, simultaneously on Wednesday, 4th October, 2017 at about 10:00 am laid ambush on unsuspecting Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) along Firgi - Pulka road in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.

While urging security agencies to respect the people's rights with regards to the on - going pro-Biafra protest, Metuh observed that the right to peaceful protest was protected under democracy and stressed that instead of flexing muscles with innocent and un-armed protesters, security agents should move to the Sambisa forest and battle the Boko Haram sect.

President Mahama had suggested a new force, possibly under the auspices of the AU to crush Boko Haram.

In the area of security, the APC National Chairman said the current government has recorded giant strides in the North - east, as the dreaded Boko Haram have been decimated with lost territories recovered by the gallant officers and men of the Nigerian Armed Forces under an able Commander - in - Chief.

Under the synergy that would ensure a hitch - free 2017 UTME, soldiers will be deployed to areas prone to violence, including the Niger Delta and the three states in North East which have been under the grip of Boko Haram insurgents and other security challeUnder the synergy that would ensure a hitch - free 2017 UTME, soldiers will be deployed to areas prone to violence, including the Niger Delta and the three states in North East which have been under the grip of Boko Haram insurgents and other security challeunder the grip of Boko Haram insurgents and other security challenges.

The Nigerian Army has come under fire for its decision to declare wanted three persons alleged to have links with the Boko Haram.

Public scepticism has been re-enforced by the blockbuster accusation by General T.Y Danjuma, former Chief of Army Staff and Defence Minister that the Nigerian Military under Buhari are «colluding» with «armed bandits» (read Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen) to carry out ethnic cleansing across communities in central Nigeria!

«SERAP considers that there is enough material in the public domain to suggest that over $ 2 billion meant for purchase of arms to equip Nigerians soldiers fighting Boko Haram in the North East of the country was diverted and shared among high - ranging government and party officials under your watch as President and Commander - in - Chief of Nigerian Armed Forces.»

«Whatever it takes to get the Boko Haram situation under control, we will do it.

The Army Chief said that no local government area in the country was under the occupation of the Boko Haram.

Troops prosecuting the war against Boko Haram at the weekend intensified clearance operations of the remnants of Boko Haram terrorists in the North East inflicting heavy damage on their camps and hideouts and killing scores after several gunshot fights, under the auspices of Operation -LSB-...]

Usman said, «Today, troops of 114 Task Force Battalion came under three - pronged attack by Boko Haram terrorists fanning out of Sambisa forest from Damboa, Tokumbere and Pulka axis.

In continuation of the fight against Boko Haram terrorists, Nigerian troops from 243 Battalion under 5 Brigade Nigerian Army on patrol, Sunday, engaged some terrorists in a fierce battle killing four of them while others escaped.

«In the so - called inaccessible territories in Borno State, tens of thousands of IDPs were held in camps under armed guard by the Nigerian military and the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), a state - sponsored civilian militia formed to fight Boko Haram.

«Yes, there were successes but not comprehensive success because the Boko Haram miscreants are still very active, killing our people and many local government councils in Borno and Yobe are under their firm grip.

«After conducting a thorough search of the vicinity, they recovered 3 Isuzu vehicles, 4 Dane guns, 1 Dummy gun, suspected to be used for training of inducted Boko Haram terroists and mattresses hidden under shrubs, amongst several other items ahead of Bone village.

Adamawa is one of three states that have been placed under emergency rule because of an insurgency waged by Islamist Boko Haram militants.

Governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors» Forum last week after the National Economic Council meeting announced that the sum of $ 1bn be withdrawn from the Excess Crude Account for fighting the Boko Haram insurgents which President Muhammadu Buhari and his government spokespersons had declared already «technically defeated» some months ago.

Public funds are not being stolen like before and the Boko Haram issue has been brought under control.

In the area of security, the minister said that when Buhari came on board, 14 of the 20 Local Government Areas of Borno, four in Adamawa and three in Yobe were under the sovereign authority of Boko Haram.

Niger Delta youths under the auspices of the Ijaw Youths Council, IYC Worldwide, has stated that the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to grant amnesty to repentant members of Boko Haram would be the «worst setback» to the battle against terrorism.

Remember that Nnamdi Kanu, who led a protest at the Nigeria House in London against Boko Haram insurgency and in support of Nigeria's unity, under the Jonathan Administration, has suddenly metamorphosed into an IPOB monster who will rather set the nation ablaze.»

Shettima had alleged that some Non-Governmental Organisations were taking huge advantage of the pains of IDPs in the state and defrauding foreign philanthropists under the guise of trying to help victims of the Boko Haram insurgency.

Relatively, the troops of 114 Task Force Battalion also came under attack by Boko Haram terrorists fanning out of Sambisa forest from Damboa, Tokumbere and Pulka axis.

The Boko Haram insurgency that Nigeria has decisively dealt with under President Muhammadu Buhari is not just a Nigerian problem but a regional and international crisis,»

Buratai, who was represented by the head of the counter-Insurgency Operations in the Northeast (Operation Lafiya Dole), Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, said, «Since my assumption in office in 2015, Nigerian Army under my leadership has been responding to security challenges across the nation, such as Boko Haram Insurgency, militancy, kidnapping among others.

The Defence Chief, who spoke in Abuja when a coalition of civil society group paid solidarity visit on Defence Headquarters, DHQ, said criticism of the military by Boko Haram sympathizers under war situation was meant to weaken operations and give the enemies an edge over troops in order to destroy the nation.

Boko Haram, a group which has split into three factions under Shiekh Abubakar Shekau, Shiekh Mamman Nur and Khalifa Abu Musaf Albarnawi, with each leader controlling the Sambisa forest, has continued to prove more deadly in attacks and suicide missions in Borno State and across the northeast region of Nigeria.

However, the lie that no ransom was paid to secure the return of the Dapchi girls followed a consistent pattern of such under the table millions of dollars payments by the Nigerian government to Boko Haram to secure freedom of abductees, especially since the advent of the Buhari administration.

Under the atrocities of Boko Haram's organization, in 2013 Goodluck Jonathan stated Borno, Yobe and Adamawa (states in the Northeastern Nigeria) in a state of emergency (Ervine, 2013).