Boko Haram Strikes Again, Claiming Scores of People
The victims had returned to their village to collect essential supplies, having previously fled due to a prior attack.
The victims had returned to their village to collect essential supplies, having previously fled due to a prior attack.
The soldiers died barely a week after the military personnel who were murdered while on a peace mission in Delta State were laid to rest at National Military Cemetery in Abuja.
A survivor of the attack recounted the harrowing experience, mentioning that some passengers managed to escape and ran back towards Damaturu.
Leah’s family’s lingering predicament was consequent upon the promise by former President Buhari that Leah would be released, but did not fulfill his pledge after the other 105 Dapchi girls regained freedom.
The elder statesman said these while speaking at the launch of a book titled, ‘Pillars of Statecraft: Nation-building in a changing world’ authored by his daughter, Dr. Kofo Obasanjo-Blackshire, in Lagos.
The Director, Media, and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, revealed these in a statement obtained by our correspondent on Sunday.
The former COAS, however, explained that it was wrong to think that victory over Boko Haram terrorists meant a total cessation of hostilities.
The Governor showed concern with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s policy on redesigned naira notes for security reasons.
Sources had earlier reported that Naja’atu resigned from her appointment with the APC and Tinubu’s campaign train weeks before the February 25 polls.
It said the southeast and south-south recorded five deaths each, while the northeast and north-west had four deaths each.
Controversy has however trailed the explosion. While some persons attributed it to a bomb blast, others said it was a transformer blast.
“Borno has witnessed so many things, both good and bad. Boko Haram is something meaningless, mindless and without any sense of direction as none of the Holy Books, either Quran or the Bible, indicates that you show disrespect to others.”
“We missed the road when the whole world was talking of education for all and we did not follow that. It was a bad miss.” He said.
“Photographs of the terrorists with their names and places of origin, accompanied with numbers to call for dissemination of the information were displayed at military and security locations including the Defence headquarters in Abuja on Monday.”