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Twenty mourners were killed when the vehicle transporting them from a funeral for victims of a jihadist attack hit a landmine in northeast Nigeria, pro-government militia and residents told AFP on Wednesday. Attacks from militants waging a 14-year war have Read More …
An explosion hit the Rivers State House of Assembly complex on Sunday night. DAILY POST gathered that some suspected arsonists threw an explosive into the complex around 9:25 pm. The incident came amid rumours of alleged moves by some lawmakers Read More …
The command spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe stated this while addressing newsmen on Monday in Warri. Edafe said that the suspects were arrested on Friday by police operatives attached to the Orerokpe Division in Okpe Local Government Area of the state. Read More …
Troops of “Operation UDO KA II’’ conducted clearance operations on terrorist camps in Imo and Anambra on Saturday. The troops arrested a suspected terrorist and also recovered improvised explosive device-making materials, motorcycles, stored foods, and other logistics items in the Read More …
Niger began three days of national mourning Tuesday after 29 soldiers were killed in a suspected jihadist attack, the deadliest since the military took power in July. Monday’s attack in western Niger involved “improvised explosive devices and kamikaze vehicles by Read More …
Troops of 144 Battalion in collaboration with hybrid forces have neutralized a top Commander of the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād (Boko Haram), Ari Ghana, and five of his bodyguards in the North East state of Borno. The notorious Commander Read More …
Cross River State Police Command, yesterday, made a major breakthrough when it uncovered and busted an Improvised Explosive Device, IED/gun manufacturing factory at Osomba community in Akampka Local Government Area of the state. The operation, which lasted over four hours Read More …
A commercial vehicle travelling on the Kareto road in Mobbar LGA of Borno exploded after running into a roadside Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on Wednesday. The IED was believed to have been laid for the troops of 5 brigade Operation Read More …
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have intercepted 399 pieces of Improvised Explosive Devices, (IEDs), from one Asana Oluwagbenga Leke, 39, along Mokwa-Jebba road on Thursday 7th September. The suspect who has been handed over to authorities Read More …
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has sought help from the United Nations Office for Counter-Terrorism, to tackle increasing threats in the country as he said bandits have morphed their methodology and now use explosive devices in Read More …
Five soldiers and two policemen sustained various degrees of injuries from Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) detonated Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) during clearance operations in Anambra and Imo states. Gen. Nwachukwu said the troops during the raid cleared IPOB camps Read More …
Some Lake Chad Basin countries (Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria) have been dealing with violent extremism for over a decade. Disarmament, demobilisation, repatriation, reintegration and resettlement processes in these countries may offer useful lessons for other West African contexts, including Read More …
Following sustainable and coordinated airstrikes carried out by Nigeria Airforce against the Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) terrorist, the group has reportedly banned all farmers, fishermen and herders within its areas of presence in the North East Read More …
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by terrorists on the Maiduguri/Bama road has killed six occupants of a commercial vehicle in Borno State. Five passengers and the driver were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in ran over the Read More …
Boko Haram’s return to using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) is a major worry for Cameroon’s Far North Region. Until recently, the region hadn’t recorded any major bomb attacks since 8 January 2021, when 15 people were killed in Mozogo. But Read More …
The UK government has pledged its willingness to continue to support Nigeria in its fight against insecurity. British High Commissioner to Nigeria Richard Montgomery stated this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. Montgomery, who Read More …
The annual Intersessional Meetings of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpile, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (aka Ottawa Convention, AP Mine Ban Convention, or Mine Ban Treaty) closed on 21 June in Read More …
Scores of fighters of the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) have been reportedly killed in military airstrikes. According to a publication focused on the Lake Chad region, a factory used in making vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED) in Read More …
At least two soldiers were reportedly killed and many others injured when the Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists attacked reinforced troops with a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) at firm base Arege in Malam Fatori in Read More …
At least 55 terrorists including several top Commanders from the Islamic State of the West African province (ISWAP) were killed by the troops of the Multi-National Joint Task (MNJTF), Force in the Fringes of Arege in Malam Fatori, in Abadam Read More …