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Nigeria:
FG Gives Priority to Stamping Out Insurgency in 2014 Says Labaran Maku
Nigerian Govt, 30 December 2013
Information Minister, Mr. Labaran Maku has said that stamping out insurgency remains the topmost priority of the Federal Government as it succeeded in containing terrorism in the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Terrorists Suffer Loses From Military Tracking Over Barracks Attack
Nigerian Govt, 30 December 2013
The Nigerian military operations geared towards tracking the insurgents who carried out the recent pre-dawn attacks on the Mohammed Kur Barracks in Bama on Friday December 21, 2013… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Govt Seeks Cameroon Help on Insurgents
This Day, 29 December 2013
Minister of Information and Supervising Minister for the Ministry of Defence Labaran Maku has said the Federal Government will seek the support of the government of Cameroun to… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Cameroon Takes Steps Against Boko Haram
UNIRIN, 27 December 2013
The authorities in Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital, have set up tighter border controls in the Far North region to guard against infiltration by jihadist Boko Haram… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Military Bombards Insurgents
This Day, 30 December 2013
There were reports of intensive fighting Sunday between the Nigerian security forces and suspected members of Boko Haram Islamic insurgents at Alafa Village, a strategic town close… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Still Insurgents Reign in North East As Kano, Kaduna Settle for Peace
Leadership, 29 December 2013
Insurgency and violent attacks by armed men have become part of the North's albatross. With Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states in the northeast still under state of emergency, the… Read more »
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Cameroon:
Nigerian Overnight Refugees Worry Cameroon
UNIRIN, 24 December 2013
Only around 1,800 of the thousands of Nigerians forced to find refuge from the fighting in the northeast between the jihadist Boko Haram and the Nigerian military have settled in a… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Timeline On Nigeria's Security Challenges
Leadership, 29 December 2013
Nigeria records so many cases of insecurity of lives and property in the out-going year. There were so many cases of kidnapping, terrorism, armed robbery incidents, burglaries, oil… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Army In Major Shake-Up to Combat Insurgents
This Day, 28 December 2013
The Nigerian Army friday announced massive changes in the posts and positions of its senior officers in what it said was a continuous efforts to re-strategise its tactical and… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Boko Haram Restricted to Two States - Presidency
Daily Trust, 30 December 2013
The presidency yesterday reviewed its performance in the year 2013 and gave itself as pass mark, saying the activities of insurgents are restricted to only two states unlike in the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Boko Haram - Intensive Fighting in Alasa Village, Borno
This Day, 29 December 2013
There is a report of intense fighting between the Nigerian security forces and suspected members of Boko Haram Islamic insurgents, at Alasa Village, a strategic town close to Bama,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
2014 - Tackling Boko Haram Remains Nigeria's Top Priority - Maku
Premium Times, 28 December 2013
The Information Minister, Labaran Maku, says stamping out insurgency remains the topmost priority of the Federal Government as it succeeded in containing terrorism in the North… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Ihejirika - Army Will Fight Till the End of Insurgency
This Day, 18 December 2013
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-General Azubuike Ihejirika, has vowed that the Nigerian Army would do whatever it takes, even if it means 'fighting to the last man,' in order to… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Service Chiefs in 'Cold War' Over Boko Haram
Leadership, 15 December 2013
It is not the best of time in the military as its top echelons are engaged in a cold war while terrorists make life unbearable for Nigerians in the Northeast zone despite the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Military Alone Can't End Boko Haram - COAS
Daily Trust, 13 December 2013
Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen Azubuike Ihejirika yesterday said military approach alone cannot extinguish the Boko Haram insurgency, even as he noted that terrorism is not peculiar… Read more »