— AIG summons emergency security meeting over rising threats It was another dark day in Borno State as two soldiers and two education officials lost their lives in separate terror attacks on Monday. In Marte, a quiet town in the Lake Chad area of the state, Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters stormed the community around 2:00 a.m., engaging troops in a fierce gun battle that left two soldiers dead. According to security sources,...

At least 12 suspected members of the notorious Mahmuda group, known for terrorising border communities around the Kanji Lake National Park, have been arrested by the Nigerian Army. The arrests followed a series of coordinated military raids under a counter-insurgency operation code-named “Park Strike Four,” launched to flush out criminal elements hiding in the forest reserve that spans Kwara and Niger States. The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 2 Division, Major General Obinna Onubogu, disclosed the...

The Nigerian military says it has made major breakthroughs in its fight against insecurity, with several high-profile terrorists killed and hundreds of kidnap victims rescued in April. Among those eliminated was a notorious terror leader, Nkwachi Eze, also known as ‘Onowu’, who had long been on the military’s wanted list. According to the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major-General Markus Kangye, Eze was the brain behind many attacks and kidnappings across the South-East. Speaking during...