Tag: insurgency
CAS orders intensified airstrikes across theatres of operation
Abuja, Feb. 10, 2026 (NAN) The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sunday Aneke, has ordered intensified air operations to crush insurgents nationwide...
Assessing Gen. Shaibu’s first 100 days as Army Chief
When Lt.-Gen. Waidi Shaibu became the 25th Chief of Army Staff (COAS) on Oct. 30, 2025, expectations were immediate, intense, and uncompromising.
He assumed command...
Foreign Looming food aid cuts in North-East, Nigeria put 1m persons...
New York, Jan. 23, 2026 (NAN) No fewer than a million people in North-East Nigeria could lose emergency food and nutrition assistance unless funding...
Egypt pledges support for MNJTF to tackle insurgency in Lake Chad
Abuja, Jan. 22, 2026 (NAN) Egypt has pledged support and cooperation for the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in its ongoing efforts to combat...
Gamji Heritage wants FG to accelerate infrastructural development
Abuja, Jan. 22, 2026 (NAN) A northern-based socio-cultural group, Gamji Heritage, has called on the Federal Government to accelerate infrastructural development across the country...
End in sight for terrorists in Lake Chad, MNJTF Commander assures...
Abuja, Jan. 20, 2026 (NAN) The Force Commander, Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), Maj.-Gen. Saidu Audu, has assured the Borno State Government that the...
1000 insurgency groups operating in Africa- Gambari
Abuja, Aug. 25, 2025 (NAN) Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Former Minister of external affairs and Nigeria’s permanent representative to the United Nations, says more than...
Insurgency: UNICEF trains 50 child protection actors in Adamawa
The Adamawa Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development and the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), have trained 50 child protection actors in...
Fight against insurgency, terrorists must continue, says Ag Borno governor
The Acting Governor of Borno, Alhaji Umar Kadafur , has said that the fight against insurgency and terrorism must continue.
Kadafur made this known when...
Guns, bullets alone cannot end insurgency – Expert
Dr Sani Abubakar, National Patron, Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism, Insurgency and Terrorism (BRAVE-IT), says the fight against security challenges in Nigeria will not...
Buhari tasks Nigerians on patriotism to end insurgency
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to demonstrate high sense of patriotism to sustain the gains recorded in the war against insurgency.
Buhari made the...
Poverty, illiteracy fuels insurgency —Zulum
The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, on Friday, revealed that poverty and illiteracy as some of the factors responsible for insurgency in the...
Japan grants UNICEF N750 million for life-saving emergency interventions in North-East...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today received a grant of US $ 3.4 Million or N750 million) for Integrated Provision of Life-Saving Emergency...
Boko Haram kills 20 in Yobe mosque
No fewer than 20 worshippers who had gone to pray at a mosque on Saturday morning were killed by gunmen suspected to be members...
Nigeria Boko Haram emergency: ‘More than 1,200 killed’
The UN says more than 1,200 people have been killed in Islamist-related violence in north-east Nigeria since a state of emergency was declared in...
