The governor described the alleged withdrawal of military check-points from Dapchi and other communities, few days before 110 students of Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC) were abducted by Boko
Haram, as major pointer to possible conspiracy in the abduction of the schoolgirls and other dastardly acts of the insurgents, asking why no one had been questioned up till now despite conflicting claims by the army and police.
Many of the girls at a local boarding school were whisked to safety when the Boko
Haram militants launched their assault on Monday evening in Yobe state.
Boko
Haram attacked the village, Dapchi, in Northern Nigeria Monday night.
Eyewitnesses said on Monday that a convoy of pickup trucks belonging to Boko
Haram militants descended on Dapchi Village in the Bursari area of Yobe State around 6 pm (1700 GMT), presstv reported.
A], January 17 ( ANI ): The Nigerian army has announced that it has released 244 Boko
Haram suspects who have renounced their membership in the terrorist group.
Initially formed as a Nigeria-centric, grassroots Islamist extremist organization, (1) Boko
Haram has evolved into a militant movement of transnationalist proportions.
Drawing on 18 hours of secret Boko
Haram video obtained by VOA, the documentary reveals a hidden world of torture and executions.
Around 270 girls were taken from their school in Chibok in the remote northeastern Borno state, where Boko
Haram has waged a seven-year insurgency to set up an Islamic state, killing thousands and displacing more than 2 million people.
And Boko
Haram has been pushed on the defensive, pummelled by a coalition of troops from Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger - briefly supported by mercenaries from South Africa and the former Soviet bloc countries.
Considering the global attention paid to the Islamic State, you would not guess that Boko
Haram is actually the world's deadliest terrorist organisation, according to the Global Terrorism Index.
ABUJA -- Nigerian authorities said Friday that Islamist group Boko
Haram was planning to carry out suicide attacks in the capital Abuja.
This week, the Nigerian military rescued 338 Boko
Haram hostages, mostly women and children, in the group's northeastern stronghold in the Sambisa forest.
