The Borno State Government has reintegrated 720 men who have spent years kidnapping, killing, raping, and burning villages across the northeast, releasing them back into communities under the cover of a deradicalisation programme. These individuals are not former freedom fighters or lost sheep. They are Boko Haram insurgents who slit throats, abducted schoolgirls, turned young…
News The suspected kidnappers arrested in Borno Quick Read During the operation, troops recovered two AK-47 rifles, magazines and ammunition, thereby disrupting the criminal network’s operational capability and denying the suspects the means to perpetrate further acts of violence,” Army said in the statement. By Ayorinde Oluokun Nigerian troops have arrested five suspected members of…
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has commended the Nigerian military, particularly troops of Operation HADIN KAI, for rescuing 360 abductees from the Mandara Mountains, a notorious terrorist enclave in the southern part of the state. Zulum first visited the people of Ngoshe on March 6, 2026, and two weeks later spent the night…
A faction of Boko Haram, identified as Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad (JAS), has agreed to release 50 women and children from a group of 416 abducted victims following intense negotiations and mediation efforts by the Borno South Youth Alliance (BOSYA). However, the insurgents warned that the process may be severely hindered, claiming the captives have…
The Nigerian Immigration personnel attached to the Joint Task Force (JTF) operations in Kai, Maiduguri, Borno State, have accused their commanders of diverting feeding allowances meant for them, leaving hundreds of officers with only one inadequate meal a day. The aggrieved personnel, who spoke exclusively to SaharaReporters under strict anonymity for fear of reprisal, lamented…
In a rather bizarre incident in Hausari Ward in Bama, Borno State, a 50-year-old man, Modu Isa, has escaped death by the whiskers after stabbing himself three times in the stomach before cutting off his genitals over a failed marriage. In a post on his X account on Saturday, August 16, 2025, Zagazola Makama, a…
A top Boko Haram commander, Abu Nasr, also known as Amir Fiya, was k!lled in Rann, the headquarters of Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno State, during a failed terrorist attack. Troops of the North East Joint Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), repelled the assault launched by suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP fighters, k!lling scores…
Suspected members of Boko Haram have killed two commercial drivers along the Maiduguri-Monguno Road in Borno State. The drivers were shot after they refused to stop at the insurgents’ checkpoint. A truck driver transporting blocks to Monguno who obeyed the insurgents’ order and stopped was abducted. A relative of the abducted driver told PREMIUM TIMES…
A SaharaReporters’ review of the Borno State budget performance document for the first half of 2025 has shown that the state government spent a total of N1.8 billion on livelihood support for “repentant” Boko Haram members in just six months. According to the data, while N1.8 billion was spent in the six-month period, N1.6…
The Borno Government has resettled more than 3,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) into 500 newly constructed mass housing units in Dara Jamal community, Bama Local Government Area. The relocation was carried out on Monday as part of the state’s ongoing Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, and Resettlement (RRR) programme aimed at rebuilding conflict-affected communities across the state. The…
