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Boko Haram suspect Kabiru Sokoto after he was rearrested on Friday, 10 February 2012

Madalla bombing: Kabiru Sokoto says “no case to answer”

May 17, 2013 no comments

Alleged Boko Haram commander and mastermind of the Christmas Day bombing in Madalla, Niger in 2011, Kabiru Sokoto, told a court in Abuja on Thursday that prosecutors have failed to prove their case a...

Pastor, 50, in court for raping three girls, ages 7 to 9

May 1, 2013 no comments

NAN – A 50-year-old man, Emmauel Mathew, was on Tuesday arraigned before Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory High Court for raping three pupils. News Agency of Nigeria ...

President Jonathan says corruption in Nigeria is “over amplified...

April 23, 2013 no comments

President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed the U.S. report, charging Nigeria of widespread corruption at all levels of government and impunity, as “misplaced and over-amplified,” Xinhua ne...

Henry Okah sentenced to 24 years in jail

March 26, 2013 no comments

A High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday jailed convicted Nigerian terrorist Henry Okah to 24 years in jail, South Africa press reports. Judge Neels Claassen, who handed down the sentence, said: ̶...

Police arraign seven alleged terror suspects over string of bank robberies and four murders.

Seven terror suspects arraigned over string of bank robberies and four...

February 21, 2013 no comments

Seven terror suspects, allegedly behind the bombing and robbery of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc in Bauchi State on July 8, 2011, were arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, polic...

Suspected Islamists kill two Nigeria police at checkpoint

January 16, 2013 no comments

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Two Nigerian policeman were killed on Monday at a checkpoint in northern Kano state by suspected militants from the Islamist sect Boko Haram, the government said. Afte...

Obscure Islamist sect claims responsibility for attack on Abuja S.A.R....

November 28, 2012 no comments

SAHARA REPORTERS – A previously unknown radical Islamist sect, which calls itself “Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis Sudan,” says it was responsible for the attack, which left two policemen...

SARS attack update: 2 gunmen arrested, 2 policemen killed and 25 escap...

November 26, 2012 no comments

2 police officers killed during attack 2 gunmen arrested 25 fleeing detainees rearrested, five still at large No suspected terrorist escaped during the attack on the police base Police authorities sa...

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen attack police base in Abuja

November 26, 2012 no comments

Police in the capital city of Abuja say they repelled an attack on a police base carried out by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, according to the Premium Times. The gunmen attacked the headquarters o...

Soldiers, police tackle protesting UNIABUJA students

November 21, 2012 no comments

NAN – Detachments of soldiers and policemen on Tuesday morning battled to dislodge protesting students of the University of Abuja from some major streets of the federal capital. The students ha...

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