Tag: Muhammadu Buhari

UPDATE: Hundreds killed in Nigeria attacks

March 11, 2016 Nigeria Abuja, Agatu, Benue, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

On the night of Feb 21, at least 500 people were killed in the mainly Christian area of Agatu in the central Benue state of Nigeria. That’s according to local sources, although the figure could rise even higher – due to continuing violence and the fact that locals and relief . . . Read More

Causes of Chibok kidnapping to be investigated

January 15, 2016 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a new investigation into the April 2014 kidnapping of more than 200 school girls in the northeastern town of Chibok, and the government’s response. The girls were taken from their dormitories by the Islamist Boko Haram militant sect, sparking global outrage and promises by . . . Read More

Boko Haram ‘more deadly terror group’ in 2014 than IS

November 20, 2015 Adamawa, Bauchi, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Denmark, Education, Gombe, Hamas, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Israel, Kano, Lake Chad, London, Maiduguri, Middle East, Muhammadu Buhari, Niger, Nigeria, Paris, Quran, Terrorism, UN

Boko Haram was the world’s deadliest terror group in 2014, ahead of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, according to a report released on 18 Nov. by the Institute of Economics & Peace. It was responsible for 6,664 deaths in 2014, more than any other terrorist group in the world, according to the Global . . . Read More

Maiduguri ‘open’ again despite renewed Boko Haram activity

September 10, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

As General Buhari’s term in office as Nigeria’s President reached 100 days last Saturday, new figures show a surge to over 2.1m people displaced in the country’s six north-eastern states by Islamist violence. According to the Swiss-based International Organisation for Migration, a recent spike in attacks by Boko Haram insurgents . . . Read More

Claim: Mistrust slows defeat of Boko Haram

August 12, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Pentecostals

Archbishop Idowu-Fearon, a Nigerian who is the new secretary-general of the Anglican Communion, that Christian leaders sceptical of Muslim motives have hurt the Nigerian campaign against the militant Islamist sect Boko Haram. He said they believed Muslim leaders supported the insurgency that has left thousands of Christians and Muslims dead. . . . Read More

Boko Haram attacks intensify in Nigeria & Cameroon

August 2, 2015 Adamawa, Benin, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, IDPs, Kidnapping, Maroua, Muhammadu Buhari, N'Djamena, Niger, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Refugees, West Africa

On 25 July, 20 people were killed when a 12-year-old girl blew herself up in a crowded bar in Maroua, northern Cameroon.World Watch Monitor The radical Islamist group Boko Haram has intensified its suicide bombing attacks in northern Nigeria and Cameroon in recent weeks. On Friday (31 July) a . . . Read More

Boko Haram victim ‘left for dead’ in 2012 loses sister and her two children in church bomb

July 7, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Churches, Jigawa, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Potiskum, Sabon Gari, Yobe, Zaria

The sister of a man whose miraculous survival from a shot in the head by Boko Haram took him to testify to the US Congress, has been killed with two of her children. Tabita Adamu, 44, her 18-year-old daughter, Haske, and 11-year-old son, Nuhu died in the July 5 bomb . . . Read More

Killings escalate in Nigeria

July 6, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Churches, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Potiskum, Yobe

The suicide bombing of a church in Nigeria on Sunday caps a week of killings that has left over 200 people dead, reports the BBC. In the first incident six worshippers were killed as they were entering a church in Potiskum in the north-east area where until recently Boko Haram . . . Read More

Buhari takes office after election ‘miracle’

May 29, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Elections, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari will be sworn in today (May 29) as the new President of Nigeria, two months after he became the first opposition leader to win an election. On March 28, Buhari, a former general, defeated incumbent Goodluck Jonathan by a 54-46 margin – the first time the opposition had . . . Read More

Corruption threatening Nigeria, not religion

May 12, 2015 Nigeria APC, Corruption, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Sharia

Nigeria’s major problem is neither ethnic nor religious but corruption, which has remained endemic and entrenched, said President-elect Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria’s Christians, especially those in the troubled northeast, have expressed concerns over the election of the former military ruler, who once endorsed the full implementation of sharia (Islamic law) throughout . . . Read More

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