Wife Of Murdered Gateman Accuses Suspect Under Detention of Threatening Her Life
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Mrs. Maina Hassan, widow of deceased Security man, Mallam Abu Hassan, allegedly murdered on duty in Orogun on November 15, 2017, has cried out over threats to her life. She is calling More...
Boko Haram Attacks Military Post, Kills 11 Soldiers, Seizes Amoured Career, Gun Truck
LAGOS JULY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Boko Haram fighters killed 11 troops and seized weapons in a raid on a military post in the latest such attack in northeast Nigeria, residents and a military source said on Sunday. Gunmen More...
Onuesoke: APC Senators, Reps, Others Set To Join PDP-Onuesoke
Chief Sunny Onuesoke LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Chieftain and former governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has revealed that scores of members of All Progressive Congress More...
Boko Haram: Eighty Abducted Chibok Girls Regain Freedom
LAGOS MAY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than eighty schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 were reported to have been released by their abductors. An Online newspaper in Nigeria reported on Saturday, quoting More...
Boko Haram: Suicide Car Bomb Kills Five Soldiers, Injures Forty
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A suicide car bomber has attacked a military convoy in northeast Nigeria, killing five soldiers and injuring another 40, security forces have said. Two military officers told the More...
Nigerian Air Force Express Sadness Over IDP Attack
Bomb scene of IDP camp LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has expressed sadness over the accidental air strike that affected the Internal Displaced Persons Camp in Rann, Kala Balge area More...
Scores Feared Dead as Nigerian Jet Drops Bomb on IDP Camp
File Photo of IDP Camp LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Several people are feared dead after a military plane mistakenly dropped a bomb inside the Rann IDP camp in Borno State. The Rann IDP camp in Kala-balge Local More...
JUST IN: Many Feared Dead as Twin Explosions Rock Maiduguri
File Photo LAGOS DECEMBER 11(URHOBOTODAY)-Two deafening explosions on Sunday morning occurred in a crowded area near Maiduguri’s main market, witnesses and officials have said. The two blasts occurred in quick More...
UPDATE: Death Toll in Boko Haram Twin Bomb Blast Rises to 56, Over 120 Wounded
Shekau Haram,Twin Bomb,Adamawa,Madagali,Muhammadu Buhari LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The death toll from Friday’s suicide bombing attacks in Madagali town, Adamawa state, has risen to 56, according to varios More...
Two Female Suicide Bombers Kill 30 in North East Nigeria
File Photo LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (URHOBOTOAY)-Two women suicide bombers blew themselves up at a bustling market in northeast Nigeria’s Madagali town on Friday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding More...
Northern Leaders Cry Out Over Starvation in Nigeria, But Insist of Voting Northerner in Future
Buhari LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Northern leaders gathered on Monday in Kaduna, the Kaduna State capital and told President Muhammadu Buhari to work harder at fixing the nation’s economy because there More...
War Bigger Than Boko Haram Looms in Northern Nigeria, Senate Leader Cries Out
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, on Friday evening, raised the alarm that if something urgent was not done, a war that would be worse than the Boko Haram insurgency might break out More...
UNICEF Warns That About 250,000 Severely Malnourished Children in Borno May Die Soon
LAGOS JULY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The United Nations Children Emergency Fund, UNICEF, has raised an alarm that nearly a quarter of a million children are severely malnourished in Borno state, northeast Nigeria, and More...
A Second Chibok Schoolgirl ‘Serah Luka’ Rescued
Second rescued Chibo girl Serah Luka’ LAGOS MAY 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian military has disclosed that another girl of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State abducted by the Boko Haram two years More...
JUST IN: Suicide Bombers Kill 25, Injure 17 in Mosque Attack Near Maiduguri
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A suicide bomber hit an early morning prayer ground in Umurari village on the outskirts of Maiduguri early today killing more than 25 and injuring at least 17 Muslims. An emergency More...
When Teenage Suicide Bomber Refuses to Kill
File Photo LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Strapped with a booby-trapped vest and sent by the extremist Boko Haram group to kill as many people as possible, the young teenage girl tore off the explosives and fled More...
Insurgency: Presidency Lies, Boko Haram Still Occupy Half of Borno State-Senator
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Senator representing Borno Central, Baba Kaka Garbai has said that the story that the insurgents have been degraded was nothing but a lie as the terror group still held on strong More...
Boko Haram: Sordid Tales of Maiduguri’s Grave Diggers
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Even the dead weren’t safe from Boko Haram when the Islamist insurgency erupted in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri nearly seven years ago. “They began to destroy More...
Boko Haram Burns Children Alive in Saturday Night Attack in Borno State
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children among people burned to death in the latest attack by Nigeria’s More...
Boko Haram Still in Control of Two LGA in Borno – IDPs
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Some Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, from Mobbar and Abadam local governments in the Northern Borno on Friday revealed that they can not return to their respective local governments More...
Boko Harm Defiles Buhari’s Deadline as Fighter on Bicycles Kill 14, Burn a Village
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY) – At least 14 people were killed and several others injured by Boko Haram gunmen in a Christmas Day attack on a village in northeastern Nigeria, vigilantes said Saturday. Attacking More...
105 Soldiers Missing, Tank, Artillery Captured After Fierce Gun Battle With Boko Haram Militants
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-At least 105 soldiers of the 157 Battalion, including their commanding officer, are feared missing after they came under intense attack from Boko Haram insurgents at Gudunbali, More...
Boko Haram Reveals Picture of Rocket-Making Factory
Boko Haram rocket making factory LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-An inscription on one of the machines shows the abbreviation of Government Technical College Bama (GTCB). The equipment appears to have been donated More...
Contrary to Military Claim Shettima Says Boko Haram Fully in Control of Two LGA in Borno
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima,has revealed that Boko Haram militants are occupying two local governments in his state, contrary to the impression that the militants are not More...
Again, Boko Haram Kills Thirty Traders in a Village Market of Borno State
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-At least about 30 traders are reported to have been killed in a deadly bomb explosion at a local market in Borno State on Friday, according to a local vigilante speaking to SaharaReporters. A More...