Tag: Abubakar Shekau

ISWAP/Boko Haram clash consumes Shekau in Sambisa Forest – Report

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Leader of the militant terrorist group, Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has been seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to avoid capture during a deadly clash between his men and those of his rival Islamic State-allied jihadists in the north of the country, the Islamic State West Africa Province, (ISWAP). Although, there has neither been any confirmation, intelligence sources said yesterday that the Boko Haram leader was ‘seriously’ wounded after the deadly clash.  According to another  situation report, the notorious terrorist leader was killed during the struggle for power between…

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ISWAP-Boko Haram Clash Consumes Shekau in Sambisa Forest-Report

Aminu Imam

Leader of Nigerian militant terrorist group, Boko Haram has been reportedly killed after a deadly clash between his men and those of the Islamic State West Africa Province, (ISWAP), intelligence sources have confirmed. According to a situation report by one of the intelligence services, the notorious terrorist leader must have been killed during the struggle for power between the Boko Haram and the ISWAP groups. The ISWAP, a splinter group of Boko Haram, which has grown in power and influence since it started operating from its territorial base on the…

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Boko Haram claims responsibility for kidnapping of Kankara schoolboys

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Reveals exact figure of abducted students   The leader of Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group that abducted hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria six years ago, has claimed responsibility for the mass abduction of students in north-western Katsina state last week.  Recall that a large group of men armed with AK-47s overran the all-boys Government Science secondary school in the town of Kankara on Friday night, marching more than 300 students into surrounding forests. In an audio tape released yesterday, its leader, Abubakar Shekau, said: Our brothers were behind the abduction…

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Zabarmari attack: We killed 78 farmers Shekau claims

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Leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has said the group is responsible for the recent killing of farmers in Borno State.  In a video released yesterday, Shekau said at least 78 farmers were killed in the tragic incident.  The farmers were killed after the Boko Haram insurgents attacked them at Zabarmari community, in Jere local government area of the State. The governor of the State, Babagana Zulum, had earlier said  43 residents were killed while they were working on their farmlands. According to Shekau,his men went after the farmers…

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‘I will never be arrested’ – Shekau boasts in latest video

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The leader of the dreaded ‘Jamaatu Ahlissunnah Liddaawati Wal Jihad’, otherwise known as Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has again taunted the Nigerian military high command in his latest video that he cannot be arrested because he is doing the work of God. The Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Tukur Buratai had ordered his men to capture Shekau about three times in the last few years. Pres. Muhammadu Buhari had also said during his campaign for office that he would defeat Boko Haram within a short time of his taking office.…

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