An improvised explosive device set by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram on the Pulka–Firgi road in Gwoza LGA of Borno State has killed 13 farmers. The devastating incident occurred in the early hours of Monday. The farmers’ van unsuspectingly stepped on the buried locally-made bomb and almost immediately it detonated. Seven farmers including the driver of the van died on the spot, according to Lake Chad security and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama. The injured...

No fewer than 30 terrorists have fallen to the firepower of troops of “Operation Whirl Punch” of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, in Kaduna State. NAF spokesman Edward Gabkwet said the terrorists were killed in a “precision strike” after the military got wind of their rendezvous along the Kwiga-Kampamin Doka axis in Birnin Gwari LGA of Kaduna. The intelligence report, Gabkwet said, revealed a trail of terrorists moving in a convoy of 15 motorbikes, each...