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Leah Sharibu: Boko Haram rejected ransom — Government sources

By The Insight Team February 17, 2020 737 0

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet az The Boko Haram terrorist group rejected the ransom offered by the Federal Government to secure the release of Leah Sharibu, sources at the Presidency told Daily Trust yesterday. Sharibu, a schoolgirl, is the only Dapchi schoolgirl still held hostage out of the 110 kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group from the Government Girls’ Science […]Continue Reading

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Kukah at funeral of late Seminarian: Nigeria needs to pause a moment and think

By The Insight Team February 14, 2020 737 0

The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah has described President Buhari’s government as divisive and tribalistic. He made this remark during the funeral mass of seminarian Michael Nnadi at Good Shepherd Seminary Kaduna on Tuesday 12th February 2020.  Recall that four seminarians were kidnapped on 13 January 2020 in Kaduna. Pius Kanwai, Peter Continue Reading

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Insecurity: People must be sacked for failure — Lawan

By The Insight Team February 14, 2020 799 0

Senate President Ahmad Lawan says those employed for the nation’s security must be given targets and that they should be sacked if they do not meet the targets. Lawan spoke at plenary yesterday after the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance by Senator Kashim Shettima (Borno) urging the military authorities to establish a […]Continue Reading

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Bandits, kidnappers hiding at national parks — Senate

By The Insight Team February 14, 2020 779 0

The Senate has raised the alarm that national parks across the country have become safe havens for bandits, kidnappers and cattle rustlers. According to the Senate, the criminals come out to attack and return back there for safety. It called for the mainstreaming of the National Park Service into the nation’s security architecture in line […]Continue Reading

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10 reasons why Boko Haram still shoots and bombs despite defeat

By The Insight Team February 11, 2020 954 Post a comment

By Theophilus Abbah At the rate  Boko Haram terrorists launch suicide attacks, lay siege on the military, kill helpless civilians, and kidnap the vulnerable in the North-East in spite of their sack from Sambisa Forest, it is apparent that the violent jihadi sect has been deflated but not conquered. Not even when the sect is […]Continue Reading

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How Boko Haram killed 30 in Borno

By The Insight Team February 11, 2020 951 0

Boko Haram fighters on Sunday killed no fewer than 30 people who were travelers that spent the night in Auno, a community 25km away from Maiduguri. The attack which lasted for four-hours claimed many lives including that of a mother and an infant, who were reportedly burnt beyond recognition. According to multiple reports, 22 people […]Continue Reading

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Why Nigeria has failed to achieve greatness – Kukah

By The Insight Team February 5, 2020 957 0

By Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah Foundations once destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Ps. 11: 3) Let me first congratulate Dr. Bode Ayorinde, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council of this august University and thank you immensely for the honour of being invited to give the Convocation Lecture and to also receive an Honorary Doctorate Degree […]Continue Reading

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Zulum spends two days in Monguno, starts 1000 homes for IDPs, higher school

By The Insight Team February 5, 2020 968 0

Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has spent two days in Monguno town around the tough shores of the Lake Chad in northern Borno, during which he laid the foundation for construction of 1,000 houses. The houses on completion, will resettle  internally displaced persons currently occupying schools. During the visit, governor Zulum also laid the […]Continue Reading

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10 Characteristics of 10 Jihadist Groups Troubling Sahel and Nigeria

By The Insight Team January 20, 2020 1107 Post a comment

Just as Boko Haram and ISWAP attacks have led to thousands of deaths in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, so have these terror groups caused thousands of deaths in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic. The Jihadist groups include Macina Libration Front, Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), Ansaroul Islam, Katiba Serma, Al-Qaeda in […]Continue Reading

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Beheading of Christians as ‘work of God’

By The Insight Team December 31, 2019 1217 0

Spreading fear and horror with the beheading of 11 Christians in Borno State, the Islamic State in West African Province (ISWAP) contaminated Christmas celebration in Nigeria. The violent sect, with that bloodshed, has left an indelible scar of sorrow in the lives of Christians, the bereaved families and Nigeria, as a nation. In the video […]Continue Reading

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5 Questions for Army over killing of police operatives

By The Insight Team August 9, 2019 1264 0

The word ‘waste’ erupts in the mind as one imagines the unnecessary killing of three elite police officers in Taraba State this week. As an evidence of the lack of cooperation among security agencies fighting terrorism, kidnapping, armed robbery and communal violence, army personnel were those involved in the senseless shooting. In the last one […]Continue Reading

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Sowore, DSS and language of ‘revolution’

By The Insight Team August 5, 2019 919 0

At the centre of Department of State Security (DSS’) arrest of Mr. Omowole Sowore at the weekend over the protest #RevolutionNow is the meaning of the noun ‘Revolution.’ Erudite spokesman of DSS, Peter Afunanya, justified the security agency’s ‘preventive measure’ by not just defining ‘revolution,’ but provided Continue Reading