Former Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor (rtd), has said political leadership must take full ownership of the war against Boko Haram insurgency and wider insecurity in Nigeria. He stressed ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic extremists have a new leader who is threatening to bomb churches and kill Christians while ending attacks on mosques and markets used by ordinary ...

Boko Haram terrorists have claimed that they have selected 68 women out of the reported 416 Ngoshe captives and intend to ...

The army said it's now focusing some of its attention on Abu Musab al-Barnawi. This was disclosed by the Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier-General Sani Usman, who said that the army is now ...

A Boko Haram faction has long been inspired by the Islamic State (IS) in Syria. Now that IS leader Baghdadi is dead, will this faction still remain as potent and violent? al-Baghdadi detonated his ...

Nigeria on Monday vowed to crush Boko Haram within six weeks as its leader warned a new regional fighting force "will not achieve anything" and the rebels launched fresh cross-border attacks. National ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Abubakar Shekau said Thursday he is still the leader of Boko Haram, rejecting a successor announced hours earlier by the Islamic State group and exposing the biggest rift yet ...

Twelve of the 416 residents abducted from Ngoshe in Gwoza local government area have escaped Boko Haram captivity, security sources confirmed.The escapees, mostly women, fled their captors in Sambisa ...

A close aide to the head of jihadist group Boko Haram on Friday denied Nigerien army claims that he he had been killed in a targeted airstrike in the Lake Chad basin. The militant group has been ...

The Boko Haram jihadist group has been active in the Lake Chad basin for around 15 years Bakura took over from former Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, whom the Nigerian authorities claimed to have ...