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Nigeria:
Jonathan Raises Committee On Amnesty for Boko Haram
Daily Trust, 5 April 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday approved the setting up of a committee to consider proposals for granting amnesty to members of the Boko Haram sect, so as to end its uprising… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Amnesty - ACF Denies Sympathising With Boko Haram Sect
This Day, 5 April 2013
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) Thursday denied being sympathetic to the cause of the Boko Haram sect, explaining that its support for amnesty for the sect was to serve as a… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Boko Haram - Jonathan Sets Up Security Committee
This Day, 4 April 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday established a committee within the membership of the National Security Council (NSC) to work out the feasibility and modalities to be adopted… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Boko Haram - Jonathan, Security Chiefs in a Crucial Meeting
This Day, 4 April 2013
Sequel to a meeting with the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) Wednesday night, in which he intimated them that he will convene a crucial security meeting the following day, President… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Malami, Dalung - What Jonathan Told Northern Elders
Daily Trust, 5 April 2013
The meeting between President Jonathan and the Northern Elders Forum on Wednesday night was useful and if the pledges are implemented, security challenges in the North will be… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Military Chiefs Still Coy On Amnesty for Boko Haram
This Day, 4 April 2013
The mood within the military top brass is that of caution over the decision by the Federal Government to grant amnesty to Boko Haram Islamic Sect. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Boko Haram Are Too Illiterate for Their Sophisticated Attacks - Kalu
Vanguard, 5 April 2013
Immediate past governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has made further clarifications on his assertion of a linkage between security agencies and the spate of bombings in the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Don't Grant Boko Haram Amnesty - Prophet Onaolapo
Vanguard, 5 April 2013
THE General Overseer of Christ the King Rescue Global Ministry, Prophet Gabriel Onaolapo, has kicked against calls for amnesty for members of Boko Haram sect, saying that all other… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Amnesty and the Qur'an
Vanguard, 5 April 2013
Many are coming to terms with the fact that the activities of the Boko Haram is un-Islamic. With the way the terrorist group go about their heinous crime, except for the stalwarts… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Timeline of Boko Haram Clashes With the State
Vanguard, 5 April 2013
The Jama'atu Allus Sunnah Lilda wati Wal Jihad, also known as Boko Haram, (Western education is sin), came into existence in the 1960s but survived through the decades under… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Jonathan Sets up Boko Haram Amnesty Committee
Vanguard, 5 April 2013
After several months of buck passing between the Presidency and stakeholders in the north on the emergence of Boko Haram Islamic sect and desirability of granting amnesty to its… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Dasuki, Ibrahim, Others On Boko Haram Amnesty Committee
This Day, 5 April 2013
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd), Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Ola Sa'ad Ibrahim, and a representative of the State Security Service (SSS), among… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Boko Haram - U.S. Urges FG to Look Beyond Law Enforcement
Daily Trust, 5 April 2013
Charge d' Affairs of Embassy of the United States of America in Nigeria Jeffery Hawkins yesterday called on the Federal Government to look beyond law enforcement in tackling Boko… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Boko Haram - Kwankwaso, Bayero Others Hold Prayer for Peace
This Day, 4 April 2013
Hundreds of Muslim faithful from all walks of life on Thursday converged at Kano Central mosque for prayer over the incessant attacks and killings of people in the state. Read more »