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The US State Department will formally designate the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram as a “foreign terrorist organisation” on Wednesday, congressional sources and others have said. The designation is significant because it directs US law enforcement and regulatory agencies …

Some women and children on Thursday marched on the streets of Maiduguri, demanding the release of their husbands, fathers and sons who were detained for being members of the outlawed Boko Haram sect. They demanded that either the suspects be …

Four members of a family were killed and two others seriously wounded when some gunmen, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, invaded Rantis Village near Kurra Falls in Barakin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. Our correspondent gathered that the …

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday admitted that despite the efforts of the nation’s security agencies targeted at curtailing the activities of members of the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, his administration could not be said to have won the war …

The Kabiru Turaki-led Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North, today Tuesday, submitted its report to President Goodluck Jonathan inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The committee recommended among others the setting up of an …