Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria air strike ‘kills commanders’
Source: BBC Nigeria’s army says it has killed several commanders of the Islamist group Boko Haram in an air strike and seriously wounded its disputed leader. An army spokesman told […]
Nigeria Is Freeing Children From Boko Haram, Then Locking Them Up
Source: The New York Times MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — It had been more than a month, and Dije Ali was still locked in a military prison with her seven children. She […]
Boko Haram luring young people with loans, Nigerian military says
Source: CNN By Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN)Boko Haram is luring young people by giving them loans as a bait for membership, the Nigerian military warned. As part of the “clandestine dispensation,” the terror group is offering loans to young entrepreneurs in the country’s troubled northeast as part of recruitment, the […]
Kidnapped to kill: How Boko Haram is turning girls into weapons
Source: CNN By Brent Swails and David McKenzie, CNN Minawao refugee camp, Cameroon (CNN)The question was always the same, she says. So, too, was the answer. “They came to us […]
Boko Haram crisis: ‘Huge rise’ in child suicide bombers
Source: BBC Boko Haram’s use of child bombers has increased over the last year with one in five suicide attacks now done by children, the UN’s child agency says. Girls, […]
Does Nigeria Have What It Takes to Defeat Boko Haram?
Source: Time The Islamist terror group massacres dozens in the northeast as the country is frozen by corruption and economic malaise Organized assaults from multiple directions. Check. An arsenal of […]
663. Quranic Commandment – when other relations and orphans and the poor are present …
663. Commandment – when other relations and orphans and the poor are present at the division of heritage, give them something therefrom and speak to them words of kindness [4:9] And when other relations and orphans and the poor are present at the division of heritage, give them something therefrom and speak to them words of kindness.
Nigeria: Army Says It Rescued Women & Girls From Boko Haram
Nigeria’s army said it had rescued 200 girls and 93 women on Tuesday during a military operation to wrest back the Sambisa Forest in the northeast from the militant group. […]
Nigerian refugees: U.N. appeals for $174M for victims of Boko Haram
The United Nations is appealing for $174 million to help Nigerian refugees who’ve fled to neighboring nations following militant attacks. Boko Haram has killed thousands in the nation’s northeast by attacking villages, schools, churches and mosques. It has also kidnapped students, including more than 200 schoolgirls abducted in April last […]