Terrorism

  • Aliyu Dahiru

    Jobs, Not Religion, Drive Recruitment To Violent Extremist Groups In Africa – Report

    A new report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has challenged established beliefs over the motivations that cause people to join violent extremist groups in Sub-Saharan Africa. Instead of religious ideology, job opportunities are the driving force behind the recruitment of individuals into these dangerous organisations, according to the report. The report, entitled “Journey […]

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  • Aliyu Dahiru

    Kebbi State Under Siege As Terrorists Kill 82 Security Operatives In Two Attacks

    At least 82 security personnel, including 13 soldiers, six police officers, and 63 vigilantes, were killed by terrorists in Kebbi State, Northwest Nigeria, between Sunday and Wednesday (March 6 – 9, 2022). The terrorists who were initially from Niger State in North-central Nigeria, killed at least 63 members of the vigilante known locally as Yan-Sa-kai […]

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  • Murtala Abdullahi

    Terror Group Kills Scores Of Vigilantes In Northwest Nigeria

    At least 70 vigilantes were killed in an attack by a terror group in Sakaba area of Kebbi State in Nigeria’s restive northwestern region. The incident occurred on Sunday, March 6, in the Dirin Daji area of Sakaba Local Government Area of Kebbi State, a source revealed to HumAngle. Sakaba is located on the southern […]

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  • Yekeen Akinwale

    Nigeria Losing Niger State To Terrorists As Ungoverned Spaces Expand

    Abubakar Bello, Governor of Niger State, North-central Nigeria, is as helpless as the people he governs, as terrorists tighten the noose on the state he superintends. Killings, displacement, looting, and arson have dotted communities in four Local Government Areas (LGAs); Shiroro, Rafi, Paikoro, and Munya. There seems to be no end in sight at the […]

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  • Murtala Abdullahi

    ISWAP Attacks Army Institute In Borno

    The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) insurgents in multiple vehicles on Tuesday, Jan. 10, destroyed parts of the Nigerian Army Institute during an attack on Buratai town in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State. HumAngle learnt that a yet-to-be-ascertained number of people were killed. Several vehicles were also destroyed alongside sections of the Nigerian Army Institute. […]

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  • Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu

    Basic Education Crisis May Feed Terrorism In North-central Nigeria

    The divorce papers arrived on a Wednesday. As he made his way through the shanty area his rented apartment was located at, children —oblivious, like him, of how his life was about to change — hailed Malam Idris* from both sides of the road, most of them dirty or hardly dressed, some in old, neat […]

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  • Aishat Babatunde

    #IPOB: Detained Separatist Leader, Kanu, Pleads Not Guilty To Terrorism Charges

    Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges the Nigerian Government brought against him at a Federal High Court in Abuja, the country’s capital. Kanu was brought to the court on Thursday, Oct. 21, months after security agents failed to provide him in his first […]

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  • Aliyu Dahiru

    Zamfara State To Receive Fighter Drones From Turkish Company

    Bello Matawalle, Governor of Zamfara State in Northwest Nigeria has announced that a Turkish company will supply fighter drones to aid in the fight against terrorists operating in the state. Matawalle, who spoke at the inauguration of 18 commissioners, 16 special advisers, the Secretary to the State Government, the Head of Service, and three Director-generals […]

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  • Aishat Babatunde

    Bethel Baptist School Abduction: Kaduna Govt Allows School Negotiate Students’ Release- Lawmaker Reveals

    Uba Sani, a senator representing Kaduna Central at Nigeria’s National Assembly on Thursday, July 15, 2021 revealed that Kaduna State government deliberately allowed the management of Bethel Baptist High School to enter into negotiations with the terrorists who abducted over 100 students of the school. This is a U-turn by the Northwestern state government that […]

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  • Murtala Abdullahi

    U.S Army Special Forces Conclude Training With Nigerian Navy Special Boat Service

    The United States Army Third Special Forces Group has concluded a five-week long joint training exercise with the Nigerian Navy Special Boat (SBS) on combating threats such as terrorism and piracy. The 3rd Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, conducts missions within the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) area of responsibility, as part of […]

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  • Rukayya Saeed

    UK To Support Nigeria, Others With £12.6m To Fight Terrorism

    The United Kingdom government has offered £12.6 million to help tackle insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin, which comprises Northeast Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, and Chad. The region has been facing a decade-long insurgency from Boko Haram terrorists. Dominic Rabb, UK’s Secretary of State Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, said the budget was part of the […]

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  • Adebowale Oluwaseun

    Terriorism Is Constantly Persisting Globally – UN Secretary-General

    António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, says threats posed by terrorism globally continues to persist despite important steps taken across the world to fight the menace. He told the Second High-level Conference of Heads of Counter-terrorism on Monday, June 28, 2021 at UN headquarters, New York that the fight against terrorism had caused damage by exploiting […]

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