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Nigeria: World Must Condemn Boko Haram's Use of Girls As Suicide Bombers - - UN
Premium Times, 16 January 2015
The UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, on Thursday, said the world must unite to condemn Boko Haram's new barbaric and evil use of young girls as suicide bombers… Read more »
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Nigeria: New Boko Haram Women's Wing?
African Arguments, 20 November 2014
On Sunday November 16th a suicide attacker targeted a mobile phone market in Azare, in North East Nigeria's Bauchi state, leaving at least thirteen people dead. It was the second… Read more »
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Nigeria: Women, Kids As Suicide Bombers
Vanguard, 15 August 2014
JUST five years ago, few believed that the alien and macabre incidence of suicide bombing was possible in Nigeria. Nigerians were known as easygoing by nature, and rated as "the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Govt Confirms Arrest of Female Bombers' Trainer
This Day, 13 August 2014
The federal government yesterday confirmed the arrest of a man believed to be the master trainer of Boko Haram female suicide bombers by the Joint Task Force in Kano. The man… Read more »
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Nigeria: Echoes of Chibok, the Female Suicide Bombers
Vanguard, 6 August 2014
IT'S a very difficult thing to admit but it all looks now like murderous insurgency has become a routine part of existence in many parts of Northern Nigeria. Read more »
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Nigeria: Are Kidnapped Girls Being Used as Suicide Bombers?
Independent (Lagos), 4 August 2014
As the Federal Government intensifies efforts to win the war against the terror group, Boko Haram, through the request of funds to purchase more sophisticated equipment to match… Read more »
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Nigeria: Female Suicide Bombers Strike in Nigeria
VOA, 31 July 2014
College students in the northern Nigerian city of Kano were reading a campus notice board, seeing what post-graduation public service job they would be assigned to, when a girl in… Read more »
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Nigeria: Twists in Boko Haram Insurgency
Independent (Lagos), 2 August 2014
The recent attacks by Islamist fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram in several parts of the country, especially during the month of the just concluded Ramadan fasting exercise has left… Read more »
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Nigeria: Tragedy That Is Female Suicide Bombers
Daily Trust, 3 August 2014
There have been many ugly twists and turns in the story of insecurity that has bedeviled this country in the last five years but the large scale use of young female suicide bombers… Read more »
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Nigeria: Ex-Minister Condemns the Use of Teenage Girls As Suicide Bombers
Daily Trust, 3 August 2014
There have been growing concerns in the country as the act of suicide bombing takes a different dimension. Read more »
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Nigeria: Stark Encounters With Teen Female Suicide Bombers
Daily Trust, 3 August 2014
The policemen who were stationed at the Eid prayer ground near North-West University in Kofar-Nasarawa in the ancient city of Kano were astonished when a teenage girl, clad in a… Read more »
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Nigeria: Chibok Girls Fingered As Suicide Bombers
Vanguard, 3 August 2014
The delay in freeing the over 200 girls seized from Government Secondary School, Chibok, in Borno State, may have exposed them to radicalisation by their captors, who are now using… Read more »
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Nigeria: Kano Bombings Traced to Female Beggars
This Day, 4 August 2014
Current intelligence reports on the emergence of female suicide bombers mostly in Kano and other states in northern Nigeria have been linked to the possible conscription of female… Read more »
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Nigeria: The Emergence of Female Suicide Bombers
Independent (Lagos), 2 August 2014
Like fairy-tales, the story keeps prompting in; female suicide bomber here, female suicide bomber there. Boko Haram, obviously, has taken its war against Nigeria to a different… Read more »
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Nigeria: Female Suicide Bomber, Two Students Killed in Kano Poly Blast
Guardian, 30 July 2014
AGAIN, a female bomber Wednesday detonated a bomb killing herself and two students at Kano State Polytechnic, Central administration, along BUK road. Read more »
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Nigeria: Female Suicide Bombers Not Chibok Girls - - FG
Vanguard, 30 July 2014
ABUJA -- The Federal Government, Wednesday, took steps to douse anxiety over the possibility that Boko Haram insurgents are using the abducted Chibok girls as female suicide… Read more »