Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that Nigeria’s fight against Boko Haram insurgency has dragged longer than the country’s 1967–1970 Civil War. Obasanjo made the remark on Sunday during the Toyin Falola Interviews conversation, which was live-streamed on social media and featured other panelists including Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, and former Deputy…
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) have successfully neutralised a group of Boko Haram terrorists and intercepted a large consignment of supplies during a coordinated night ambush around Komala in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State. Zagazola Makama was reliably informed that the operation was executed by frontline troops who had been conducting aggressive…
Former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor (retd.), has dismissed widespread claims that repentant Boko Haram members are being recruited into the Nigerian Armed Forces. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics on Monday, Irabor said such allegations are impossible under the military’s recruitment structure. “It has always been a burden for me where we got…
Fighters of the Boko Haram faction loyal to Ali Ngulde have beheaded two women in the Mandara Mountain area of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State after accusing them of engaging in shirk (idolatry). Sources told Zagazola Makama that the victims were apprehended by the terrorists who alleged they were found with charms (layu)…
Troops of the North East Joint Task Force ‘Operation Hadin Kai’ (OPHK) have chased Boko Haram terrorists out of a community in Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno State. The insurgents stormed the town, burning down houses and vehicles, including that of civilian JTF. However, troops responded swiftly and sent the terrorists out of the…
Hussaini Isma’il, one of the leaders of the terrorist group, Boko Haram was sentenced to a 20-year imprisonment on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to four counts bordering on terrorism preferred against him by the Federal Government Justice Emeka Nwite of Federal High Court Abuja in the judgment, sentenced Isma’il, popularly known as Maitangaran him…
A deadly clash between the factions of Boko Haram the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunna lid-Da‘wa wa’l-Jihād (JAS) and the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) has resulted in the reported death of more than 50 fighters at Toumbun Gini, an island community in Abadam Local Government Area of Borno State. Security sources told a counter…
The existing rivalry between Jihadist duo of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram has led to a full-scale territorial warfare along riverine settlement routes in Abadam and Kukawa Local Government Areas of Borno State. According to Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad Region, Zagazola Makama, revealed that the…
Former Borno Governor, Senator Ali-Modu Sheriff, on Saturday disowned a viral publication claiming he accused Vice-President Kashim Shettima of creating Boko Haram, describing the report as a politically motivated fabrication intended to stoke division in the North-East. Sheriff, who once governed the epicentre of the Boko Haram conflict and has repeatedly been linked to debates…
Fresh clashes have erupted between fighters of Boko Haram’s Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS) faction and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), following the collapse of a short-lived truce between the rival terrorist groups. Zagazola Makama, a counter insurgency reporter, the long-standing rivalry between the Bakoura-led Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS) faction…