PLANS by the Islamic State of West Africa Province (Iswap) to consolidate its presence across northeast Nigeria has suffered a major setback after one of its major commanders was killed by government forces during a failed attempt to capture a town in Borno State.
Last week, Iswap succeeded in killing Boko Haram leader...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) As the former Chadian president was Boko Haram’s most formidable adversary, the vacuum needs to be filled with an intensified military presence in the Lake Chad Basin or we will end up with another Afghanistan on our hands. I await a Blitzkreig operation over the next few weeks
(2) I think it is time to expand the...
NIGERIAN security forces have managed to rescue about 180 of the 210 staff and pupils abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Kaduna State yesterday following a joint operation by military and police operatives.
In what is now becoming a regular occurrence, yesterday, armed gunmen stormed the school in...
CHINA has stepped up its military cooperation with Nigeria by taking in over 70 Nigerian Air Force (Naf) personnel and training them with a view to getting them to activate an old airbase in the northeast of the country.
With Nigeria battling am insurgency against Boko Haram terrorists in the northeast of the country, the...
