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How Much was paid To Release the 21 Chiboks Girls? Find out

Those Innocent girls deserves any ransom for their release, but, We were told no ransom was paid to release the 21 chibok girls, if this report by saharareporter is anything to go by: A source told SaharaReporters after the DSS concluded the negotiation with Boko Haram fighters to release the first batch of Chibok girl kidnapped by the insurgent Islamist sect in April 2014 and were invited to pick the girls inside Sambisa Forest when the Nigerian Army was contacted to provide cover. Only a few military generals were aware of the entire operation because they coordinated with the DSS to visit Sambisa Forest in the middle of the night. Boko Haram had stipulated that no soldiers could accompany the DSS team that would recover the 21 abducted girls. However, to be on the safe side, the Nigerian government asked that some well-armed soldiers accompany the DSS officers and some negotiators from the Switzerland government just to be on the safe side. As planned, and using satellite te...

Lai Mohammed Gives Details On Chibok Girls Release

Information Minister Lai Mohammmed explained that President Muhammadu Buhari, the  (DSS), and the Nigerian military had been working closely with “a friendly European country and a renowned international humanitarian organization,” “This is not a swap. This was a release which was effected because over time, we succeeded in confidence building. “This particular release is significant because it’s just a first step in what we believe will lead to the eventual release of all our girls in custody. It is significant also because we have been able to establish more than ever before a confidence in both the leadership of Boko Haram and Nigerians. “I am not aware of any monetary transaction,” he said. “When you are fighting insurgency, it’s a combination of carrot and stick.‎ The release of these girls does not mean the end to military operations. But it could mean a new phase in the conduct of the war against terror,” he said. Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu, on Thursday, confirm...

Breaking: Boko Haram Releases 21 Chibok Girls

21 of the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorist in April 2014 has been released to the Nigerian government.

Boko Haram’s new bombing tactics Exposed by the Army

Be security conscious as we celebrate the xmas Season! The Defence Headquarters has revealed that Boko Haram terrorists have devised new tactics like crying and feigning pains and shouting to attract sympathy from unsuspecting public before bombing them. In a statement, Monday, the Defence spokesperson, Col. Rabe Abubakar said this means of inflicting harm on innocent citizens is to further their terrorist cause. Abubakar said: “When a lot of people of goodwill gather to render help in the process, the suicide bomber detonates bombs which they conceal under their clothes. The recent suicide bombing in Damaturu is instructive. “Similarly, suicide bombers used monetary incentives and other inducements especially in crowded places to lure innocent citizens in order to cause colossal damage to both lives and property. Yola suicide incident is fresh in our memory.” The statement therefore advised Nigerians to be wary of such antics as the terrorists who are losing out in their former encla...

Breaking News: Scores feared dead, Explosions Hit Abuja Again

Multiple explosions hit Abuja,The first occurred in front of the police station, while the second occurred at the town’s main market, 15 minutes apart from other. A third explosion was reported at Nyanya Bus Station thereafter. Nyanya was the scene of two bombings in 2014, leading to scores of death. As reported by  Vanguard

Buhari Give Service Chiefs 3months to Bring down Boko Haram

President Mohamadu Buhari has on Thursday tasked the new appointed Service Chiefs to synergize with other nation’s security apparatus and hunt down Boko Haram insurgents within the next three months. The president said that that would be the only way the new military helmsmen would justify the confidence resposed in them by his government. In a brief swearing in ceremony of the new service chiefs performed at the Villa, “I want to reiterate that your appointments and subsequent elevation to these ranks are based on your pedigree as first class senior officers who identify sterling leadership qualities. Therefore I have no doubt in my mind that all of you are equal to the task ahead of you. You must acquaint yourselves and justify the honour done to you.

Boko Haram militants capture Chibok again

Boko Haram sect have, again, seized Chibok, the home of over 200 schoolgirls abducted by the insurgents in April. The insurgents attacked and seized the town on Thursday evening, residents said. The attackers have repeatedly targeted villages around Chibok over recent months. A senator from Borno State, Ali Ndume, told the BBC Hausa service that security forces deployed in the town ran away when the insurgents attacked. Residents said the insurgents headed to the centre of Chibok and declared that they were taking it over as part of their caliphate. The insurgents have changed tactics in recent months by holding on to territories rather than using hit-and-run attacks that have left thousands dead.

70 Boko Haram Killed By Villagers in Adamawa

"Members of a vigilante group in Madagali, a town in Adamawa State, have killed more than 70 Boko Haram members and and handed over seven captured militants to the police. The vigilantes acted after they were tipped off by a local food vendor that the militants were coming to get food before heading out for a major operation to raid villages in the area, usually carried out at night. The vigilant group mobilized, laid ambush and waited patiently for the militants, a source in the village disclosed. The source added that as soon as the Islamist insurgents numbering more than 100 showed up in the village to pick up their favorite meals, the vigilantes attacked them, killing most of them in a hail of bullets. Today's attack is the second time this week that local vigilantes would defeat the rampaging militants. The first time was two days ago when well-armed vigilantes in Kalabalge, Borno State, ambushed a squad of Boko Haram militants. A security source told SaharaReporters t...

US Experts Set to Start Work Chibok, Nigeria

US Secretary of State John Kerry says a specialist team is set to start work in Nigeria to help find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by militants. He said the US team, working with the Nigerian government, would do everything possible to free the girls. Earlier, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said he hoped "a turning point" had been reached in the fight against Islamist insurgents Boko Haram. Nigeria has been criticised for its slow response to the kidnappings. The schoolgirls were seized from their boarding school on the night of 14 April in the town of Chibok in north-eastern Borno state. The Nigerian group's latest actions have attracted such unanimous international condemnation that few will want to be publicly associated with them for quite some time” It is believed they are being held somewhere in the vast forested areas that stretch from near Chibok into neighbouring Cameroon. "Our inter-agency team is hitting the ground in Nigeria n...

Kidnapped Girls: Chibok women protest in Abuja

“Our daughters were carried away by the insurgents like cows into the wilderness. If they are dead; we want to see their corpses.” Some women of Chibok, Borno State, on Tuesday marched to Nigeria’s National Assembly, urging the Federal Government to intensify efforts to rescue the remaining 230 female students abducted two weeks ago. The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that 273 girls were abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno, by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on April 14. Of the number, 43 girls had so far escaped from their abductors unharmed. However, the women, led by Naomi Mutah, said since the incident, no government official had reached the community to explain the efforts being made to rescue the girls. “Our daughters were carried away by the insurgents like cows into the wilderness. If they are dead; we want to see their corpses. For the past two weeks that the incident occurred, nobody has talked to us; has the government thrown away the bath wa...

Again Boko Haram kills 300, Abducts 11 more girls

IN another daring operation, members of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, on Monday night killed about 300 people in Gamboru Ngala, Borno State. Gamboru Ngala is a border town with Cameroon. The insurgents reportedly drove into Gamboru Ngala in armoured vehicles. It was learnt that the insurgents, who seemed to have targeted a local market, shot sporadically at traders at the market before proceeding into the town to wreak more havoc. Gamboru is situated along Nigeria-Cameroon border and is the administrative headquarters of the Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State. It is about 200 kilometres  from Maiduguri, the state capital city. Senator Ahmed Zannah, who is representing the area in the Senate, confirmed the killings. He said the invaders spent about 12 hours wreaking havoc on defenceless Nigerians. He revealed that several other persons were injured in the attack, while almost all the houses and shops in the town were burnt down. The senator, who spoke i...

Suspected Boko Haram Gunmen Kidnap 8 More Girls

"Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls aged 12 to 15 from a village near one of their strongholds in northeast Nigeria overnight, police and residents said on Tuesday. "They were many, and all of them carried guns. They came in two vehicles painted in army colour. They started shooting in our village," said Lazarus Musa, a resident of Warabe, where the attack happened. A police source, who could not be named, said the girls were taken away on trucks, along with looted livestock and food. The Islamist rebels are still holding more than 200 girls they abducted from a secondary school on April 14. Reporting by Lanre Ola; Writing by Tim Cocks Related articles Boko Haram kidnaps more girls in Nigeria Gunmen abduct eight more girls in northeast Nigeria: police - Reuters

Nyanya: Hijacked School Bus, Parents Withdraws Children From School

There was tension this morning in Nyanya, were the recent bomb blasts occurred, When News came in that some school children of Divine Kiddies Academy has been abducted by boko haram, The News was later confirmed as rumor. Information reaching us has it that the bus, which belongs to a private school, Divine Kiddies Academy was said to have dropped off students of the school having routinely picked them from their various homes when some armed men invaded the school premises and made away the bus. For the safety of the children, parents has been asked to with draw their children from schools Related articles President Jonathan Visit Nyanya Bomb Blast Scene Breaking News:Bomb Blast at Nyanya Axis of Abuja, Scores Killed Legislators Vacates Offices Because of Bomb scare at National Assembly 2nd Nyanya Bomb Blast, Eye Witness Accounts Jonathan Vows to Find Abducted Girls Amid Mounting Pressure Nairobi Bus Blasts Kill At Least 3 People, Wound More Than 60 In Kenya

Jonathan Vows to Find Abducted Girls Amid Mounting Pressure

The call for the rescue of the abducted girls by the Islamic sect  boko haram, is almost turning to a fun fair, all we want is, GET BACK THE GIRLS WHERE EVER THEY ARE TO THEIR PARENTS  After so much noise internationally and domestically for failing to respond to the kidnapping of hundreds of children by Boko Haram three weeks ago, Nigeria’s president Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday promised to rescue the more than 200 girls kidnapped by militant Islamists After weeks of silence, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan pledged during a nationally broadcast speech on Sunday to find an estimated 230 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped from their school by insurgent group Boko Haram in mid-April. “Wherever these girls are, we’ll get them out,” said President Jonathan on live television Sunday. However, he accused some of the victims’ parents of withholding information about their daughters and called for “maximum cooperation” from parents. Jonathan’s speech comes in the wake...

Over a 100 School Girls Abducted in Borno

 As many as 200 girls were abducted from their boarding school in northeastern Nigeria by heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists who arrived in trucks, vans and buses, officials and witnesses said.According to an eye witness Mr. Nuhu Amos who told Vanguard News in a telephone interview that, “ the gunmen armed with AK47 rifles, Improvised Explosive Devices,  IED’s, and petrol bombs stormed Chibok on Monday evening and attacked one of the security posts and shot one security personnel, before abducting more than 100 female students, as well as setting some houses and shops ablaze within the vicinity. “Although, the attackers did not kill any resident, they only shot one security operative, before carting away foodstuff and escaping into the Sambisa Forest. “I also learnt that out of about 250 female students writing their SSCE, some were able to escape into the bush, while more than 100 were abducted by the attackers using a 911 truck/lorry that was abandoned by its driver w...