The Federal Government has uncovered the hidden agenda of Boko Haram to bomb churches, worship centres, recreational centres, hotels, military and paramilitary, police and telecommunications installations, among others in some states of the country. ...

The Nigerian Law School, Abuja campus, has moved this year’s graduation ceremony out of its Bwari campus out of fear of the dreaded Boko Haram sect. ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the posture taken by the Amnesty International when the human rights organisation criticised the manner in which the Federal Government has been containing deadly Islamist sect, Boko Haram. ...

Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Yakowa, has dismissed calls for his resignation from office over the incessant bombings in the state. ...

The violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, on Thursday indicated its readiness to end its campaign of violence but on the conditions that ex-Borno State Governor Modu Sheriff was arrested and peace talks held in Saudi Arabia. ...

Two Senators and a former governor are currently under surveillance with a view to determining their alleged involvement in the activities of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, ...

Thirteen people died yesterday in gun battles in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital and Damaturu, the Yobe State capital. The two cities are in the northeast, hotbed of the fundamentalist group Boko Haram . ...

Nigerian security forces killed 20 suspected militants of the Boko Haram sect in a shootout as they raided an Islamist hideout in the country’s northeast, a security officer said. ...

The planned designation of the Islamist sect,Boko Haram,as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) or International Terrorist Organisation (ITO) ...

At least six soldiers and two civilians were killed in a suicide bomb attack Sunday on a military post in Damaturu, Yobe State by suspected Boko Haram bomber. A man driving a SUV ran into a military check point at Shagari Low Cost Housing Estate along Gashua road and rather than stopping for search by the soldiers on duty, detonated explosive devices already wired on his car, said Yobe state commissioner of police Patrick Egbuniwe. ...

At least two members of Islamist sect Boko Haram were killed and 26 arrested in Nigeria's Borno state for their alleged involvement in the killing of two Indian nationals. The two Indian nationals -- Shanker Saha and Bokul Chander Mondal, both 35 -- were killed and a third named Biresh Yadav, 43, was seriously wounded on July 25 after an unprovoked armed attack on the premises of M/s Adebar Trades and Industries Ltd in Maiduguri. ...

The division in the dreaded Islamist sect Boko Haram deepened at the weekend with the murder of Abu Qaqa II, the spokesman of the militant group suspected to have taken over from Abu Qaqa I who was captured last January and has been in the custody of the State Security Service. Abu Qaqa II was believed to have been killed on the instruction of the leader of the sect, Abu Shekau, for attempting to back out of their reign of terror. ...

The armed forces and security agencies are not taking lightly the Thursday threat by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, against Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. The preliminary response from the military and the security agencies yesterday was placing their men and officers on red alert. ...

The purported leader of Nigeria’s violent Islamist sect Boko Haram says he will bring down the government of President Goodluck Jonathan within three months. The 14-minute video posted on social video network YouTube features a man identified as the group’s leader Abubakar Shekau, ridiculing President Jonathan’s promise two weeks ago that the security situation in Nigeria would be under control by the middle of this year. ...