Maiduguri in Lockdown as JTF Seek Out Boko Haram Militants

A key city in Borno state was on lockdown Sunday as the military enforced a 24-hour curfew and blocked supply routes in its sweeping campaign against Islamist insurgents.

The operation against Boko Haram, the group that wants an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, is aimed at retaking territory seized by the militants and ridding the country of "terrorist activities," the miltary has said.

65 Boko Haram Members Arrested as JTF kill 10 others in Burno

The Special Forces of the Nigerian army have arrested 65 suspected Boko Haram members in Borno State as the state of emergency declared by President Goodluck Jonathan enters the third day.

The Director of Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, said in an electronic mail on Saturday that the insurgents were arrested while trying to escape from various camps taken over by security forces.

20 mini-skirt ladies massacred in Maiduguri.

Barely 24 hours after over ten people were slaughtered in Maiduguri, twenty ladies in mini skirts and trousers were yesterday slaughtered in their separate homes in the metropolis by yet to be identified terrorists. This ugly development in Maiduguri is one of its kind, as many believed that most of the daily killings in Borno are only

Gunmen Kill Military Intelligence Personnel

VIOLENCE continued in Damaturu,the Yobe State capital, as tragedy struck the Military Joint Task Force (JTF) when its intelligence personnel, was, Friday afternoon,ambushed at a mechanical workshop and shot dead by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect.

Gunmen Kill Military Intelligence Personnel

VIOLENCE continued in Damaturu,the Yobe State capital, as tragedy struck the Military Joint Task Force (JTF) when its intelligence personnel, was, Friday afternoon,ambushed at a mechanical workshop and shot dead by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect.