Between July 2009 and August 2022, the Islamic State West Africa Province carried out 1,480 attacks in the country.
In addition, approximately 15,111 people were killed and over 3.2 million Nigerians were displaced as a result of the attacks.
These were included in the Agora Policy report, 'Understanding and Addressing Insecurity...
Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) issued new orders to the military on Thursday to take the fight against terrorists to their "hideouts and ensure they are completely eliminated."
President Buhari also urged the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, as well as its agencies, to...
On Thursday, the Defence Headquarters announced the arrest of two more suspected terrorists linked to the Owo attack.
General Lucky Irabor, the Chief of Defence Staff, announced the arrest of some suspected terrorists, including the mastermind of the Owo attack, during a meeting with media executives and editors on Tuesday.
Armed...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has told the chief prosecutor of International Criminal Court (ICC) that the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria is sheer criminal behaviour that has nothing to do with religion or ethnicity.
Since 2009, Boko Haram insurgents have been fighting a war with the Nigerian state, seeking to establish an...
NIGERIAN military commanders are claiming to have killed the leader of the terrorist sect the Islamic State West African Province (Iswap) Sheikh Sani Shuwaram in a recent air strike out in Marte Local Government Area of Borno State.
Sheikh Shuwaram, 45, was installed as the new Iswap leader in the Lake Chad region by its...
Ayo Akinfe
We do not need loans or grants but proper foreign direct investment (FDI) to build up our industrial capacity. Consequently, all recent coronavirus-related loans must be written off
Nigeria needs at least $100bn of FDI annually. International development agencies must agree to press industrialised countries to offer...
Ayo Akinfe
Wiping out Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province (Iswap) in the northeast of the country
Getting every single cattle herdsman in Nigeria settled into one of six mega ranches to be located in Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Bauchi, Kaduna and Niger states
Generating, distributing and transmitting 50,000MW of...
Ayo Akinfe
Any Nigerian couple who marry from outside their geo-political zone will get a federal government marriage allowance of N50,000. This is to foster togetherness
All Nigerian girls aged 10 to 21 will be able to get sanitary towels free of charge from their local clinics
As from today, marriage to a minor under 18...
AS many as 1.4m children are said to be facing malnutrition across northeast Nigeria over the next year due to the effects of the Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province (Iswap) insurgency according to the United Nations.
In a recent report just published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of...
NIGERIAN military authorities have reported that as many as 104 Islamic State of West Africa Province (Iswap) terrorists and their families have surrendered to troops of the 25 Task Force Brigade in Borno State.
Since 2009, Boko Haram and its breakaway group Iswap have been waging war against the Nigerian state as they seek...
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