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Nigeria: Boko Haram Exposes the Cracks in Nigeria's Military Strategy
ISS, 2 October 2018
For nearly three years the Nigerian government has stuck to its claim that it has 'technically defeated' Boko Haram. Recently though, the terror group demonstrated its renewed… Read more »
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Nigeria: Our Soldiers Are Over-Deployed, Says Ex-IG Arase, Canvasses Community Policing
Guardian, 25 September 2018
Former Inspector-General (IG) of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, has said that Nigeria is over-deploying its military personnel to maintain law and order in different parts of the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Concern Over Resurgence of Boko Haram Attacks in North-East
This Day, 17 September 2018
Chiemelie Ezeobi writes that the recent resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in the North-east, which is specifically targeted at military formations, undermine repeated claims by the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Boko Haram - UN Officials to Visit Maiduguri, Bama, Abuja in October
Premium Times, 2 October 2018
The Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, says a UN joint delegation will visit Maiduguri, Bama and Abuja first week of October, to scale up its humanitarian intervention in… Read more »
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Nigeria: Buhari's Take On Terrorism At UN
Guardian, 2 October 2018
President Muhammadu Buhari had seized the opportunity of the current session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to highlight the challenge, which terrorism continues to… Read more »
Boko Haram Exposes the Cracks in Nigeria's Military Strategy
Altering military commanders each time there's a problem has been tried before, with little impact on the counter-terrorism effort. Over the last two years, leadership has changed on four occasions, writes Akinola Olojo of the Institute of Security Studies.
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The militant group has killed an aid worker, kidnapped about six months ago at the Rann camp for internally displaced persons. Boko Haram has threatened to harm other people, ... Read more »
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International Committee on the Red Cross has revealed that most went missing on account of the "raging" militant attacks by Boko Haram, as well as other acts of violence carried ... Read more »
