A small group of insurgents on Tuesday launched a daring attack on the Garrison Town of Monguno, in Monguno Local Government Area of Borno State, northeast Nigeria. The number of casualties was not immediately clear, but it was reported that a few number of people sustained injuries. Monguno about 130 kilometres northeast of Maiduguri, the …
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The Abubakar Shekau faction of Boko Haram, otherwise known as Jama’atu Ahlussunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad (JAS), appears to be mimicking the ideology and tactics of its splinter group in order to get a stronger hold over the Lake Chad region. The group released a video on Sunday where it showed fighters parading with firearms at …
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Zainab Isa Zakari Bosuwa, a 400 level student of Sule Lamido University, Jigawa State, Northwest Nigeria was Monday morning abducted from her residence by some gunmen. According to Hafsat Bosuwa, sister to Zainab, the abduction took place at about 1am on Monday. “The gunmen scaled the fence to our house through our neighbor’s compound after …
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The governors of Katsina and Zamfara states have maintained that no money exchanged hands to secure the release of over 340 school students on Thursday, raising the question of whether the kidnappers suddenly became charitable. Hundreds of school children were abducted on Friday, December 11, after terrorists stormed the Government Science Secondary School (GSSS) Kankara, …
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Reacting to the lack of clarity concerning the number of schoolboys abducted from a Katsina secondary school last Friday, Boko Haram has disclosed that it currently has 523 children in captivity. A source within the group confirmed this to HumAngle on Tuesday. Prior to this, there had been at least five conflicting figures in the …
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The abductors of hundreds of schoolboys in Kankara community, Katsina State, northwest Nigeria, have made first contact with a set of demands, according to the state governor, Aminu Masari. The governor disclosed this on Monday during a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari’s family home in Daura. Over 300 schoolboys were missing after a group of …
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One of the survivors of the Zabarmari massacre in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, told HumAngle four Boko Haram fighters were the first group to accost and interrogate them. The survivor who did not want to be named for his safety revealed that the fighters asked them where they were from and where they were heading. …
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Three Borno State officials were on Monday evening abducted by Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP) in Mobbar Local Government of the state, Northeast Nigeria. The officials were stopped by the insurgents at a checkpoint set up in Wakilti while they were travelling from Damasak, a town about 200km from the state capital, Maiduguri. ISWAP had …
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Abubakar Shekau’s faction of Boko Haram, Jama’atu Ahlussunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, has released a new video in which it claims responsibility for killing 78 farmers in Zabarmari area of Borno State, Northeast Nigeria on Saturday. HumAngle reported that the migrant farmers from Sokoto State, North-western Nigeria, were tied and slaughtered by the terrorists. The terrorists …
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Abubakar Shekau, leader of Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad otherwise known as Boko Haram, boasts in a new video that he cannot be arrested because he is doing the work of God and ‘He will protect him.’ “Nobody can apprehend me, because I’m doing God’s work. He will protect me like those doing similar work …
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