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Nigerian military claims arrest of 8 suspected insurgents

Agence France-PresseJune 19, 2013 17:04

The Nigerian military said Wednesday that it has arrested eight of the suspected insurgents who launched deadly attacks since the weekend in the northeast in which more than a dozen students were killed. "Eight of the terrorists who perpetrated the mayhem during the weekend have been apprehended at the outskirt of Maiduguri," the spokesman of the defence headquarters, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade, said in a statement. The insurgents attacked two schools in the northeast this week, leaving at least 16 students and two teachers dead.

Nigeria bans satellite phones in Islamist battleground

Thomson ReutersJune 19, 2013 11:33

MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria's military banned the use of Thuraya satellite phones on Wednesday in northeastern Borno state, a step it said was designed to stop Islamist militants communicating. President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Borno and two other states on May 14, ordering extra troops in to try to crush Islamist sect Boko Haram, whose insurgency against has killed thousands of people in the past three years.

Nigeria bans satellite phones in northeast after fresh attacks

Agence France-PresseJune 19, 2013 09:29

The military claimed in announcing the ban that Islamist extremist group Boko Haram had used satellite phones to plan attacks on schools.

Nine students killed in attack on Nigeria school

Agence France-PresseJune 18, 2013 23:31

Suspected Islamists shot dead nine students as they sat an exam in an attack on a private school in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, local people said Tuesday. The attack, in a region that is a stronghold of the Islamist rebel group Boko Haram, happened on Monday in the Jajeri suburb of the city, they said. Mohammed Saleh, a relative of one of the deceased students, said school officials had told him that the attack happened soon after the end-of-year exam had started. "Nine of the students died instantly," he said, blaming members of Boko Haram.

Nine students killed in attack on Nigeria school

Agence France-PresseJune 18, 2013 21:30

Nigeria Islamists kill 9 students in school attack: medic

Thomson ReutersJune 18, 2013 17:31

MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants opened fire on a school in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, killing nine students, witnesses and a medical worker said, the second deadly attack on schools in three days. Witness Ibrahim Mohammed said he was taking exams in a classroom at Ansarudeen School when gunmen stormed the building, opening fire at random.

11 dead in attack on school, soldiers: Nigerian military

Agence France-PresseJune 17, 2013 18:02

Suspected Islamist extremists have attacked a secondary school and military checkpoint in Nigeria's northeast, leaving 11 people dead including seven students, the military said Monday. Details were sketchy and the information could not be independently confirmed. Mobile phone lines have been cut in much of the northeast since the start of a military offensive targeting Islamist extremist group Boko Haram on May 15 and access to the area is limited.

Nigeria says 11 killed in Islamist sect school attack

Thomson ReutersJune 17, 2013 15:31

By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Seven students, two teachers and two insurgents were killed when suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram attacked a school in the northeastern town of Damaturu, the military said. Groups like Boko Haram and the al Qaeda-linked Ansaru have become the biggest risk to stability in Nigeria, Africa's top oil producer and second-largest economy.

Nigeria offensive pushes 6,000 refugees into Niger: U.N.

Thomson ReutersJune 11, 2013 15:31

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military offensive against Islamist militants in its northeast has forced more than 6,000 refugees - mostly women, children and the elderly - to flee to neighboring Niger, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. Nigerian forces are engaged in a 4-week-old operation to regain territory from fighters loyal to Islamist group Boko Haram, which they say has enabled them to wrest back control of the country's remote northeast.

Boko Haram, Ansaru are 'terrorist' groups: Nigeria leader

Agence France-PresseJune 4, 2013 18:17

Nigeria has formally declared the Boko Haram Islamist sect and Ansaru, its suspected offshot, "terrorist" groups and issued a law to ban them, a presidential statement said on Tuesday. "President Goodluck Jonathan has formally approved the proscription of Boko Haram and authorised the gazetting of an order declaring the group's activities illegal and acts of terrorism," said the statement from his office. The ban "affects both Boko Haram (Jamaatu Ahlis-Sunna Liddaawati Wal Jihad) and another group - Jama'atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis Sudan", it said.