Atrocities committed by Boko Haram militants are well-documented.
Notoriously known jihadist sect, waging a violent terror campaign, was a serious headache for Goodluck Jonathan – and now it has become one of the top problems for Muhammadu Buhari, which is yet tobe solved.
The devil in flesh: Abubakar Shekau, the alleged leader of Boko Haram, declared war on western values, but at the same time uses smartphones, designed in the West and posts videos on YouTube.
Abubakar Shekau claims to be the leader of Boko Haram militants. Still, nine moths ago Australian negotiator, Dr Stephen Davis, has insisted that former governor of Borno State, Modu Sheriff and former Chief of Army Staff, General Onyeabo Azubuike Ihejirika are Boko Haram sponsors.
Davis also claimed that Boko Haram, sponsored by some Nigerian politicians, received a large amount of their finances through the Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN).
It is assumed that Boko Haram terrorists could have been provided with Russian weapons from the territory of Chad.
Dead bodies in Maiduguri after religious clashes on July 31, 2009. 700 people were killed in total across the north in clashes between Boko Haram and troops.
Photo: Reuters in April 2009 hundreds of people were killed in a weekly spree of bombings, assassinations and kilings in Maiduguri.
Prison in Bauchi after attack of Boko haram militants, who released 720 inmates – 80 of them were Boko Haram members
Photo: AP200 Boko Haram militants stormed the prison in Bauchi, leaving no chances for prison personnel to repel their attack. One policeman was killed.
On August 26, 2011 a car packed with explosives rammed into UN building in Abuja. 23 people were killed at spot.Carrying out suicide bombing of theUN office in Abuja was linked first to the militant Somali group Al-Shabaab, that has been linked to al-Qaeda.
However, the secret service later described those behind the act of terror as “notorious Boko Haram elements.”Another bomb blast in Abuja on the Christmas holiday in 2011 left dozens dead.
Five churches were bombed on that day in Abuja. In Damaturu a police station and a state security building were also bombed.
A paramedic helps a young man, injured during one of the multiple explosions and shooting attacks, as he leaves the Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on January 21, 2012.In 2012 at least 200 people were killed in Kano in bombings and gun attacks.
The number of casualties could have been even higher, but police in Kano seized ten cars packed with explosives and 300 improvised explosive devices.
Nigerian troop looks at the body of a prison officer killed by Boko Haram during attack in Bama, 2013.
Photo: AFPScores of police officers have been killed during coordinated attacks onmultiple targets, carried out by 100 Boko Haram militants in May 2013.
Nigerian military informed that 13 militants have been killed. Nigerian military show confiscated improvised explosive device made by Boko Haram militants in 2013.
Boko Haram militants widely use dirty terror tactics, detonating explosive devices in crowded places.Ibrahim Gaidam, Governor of Yobe state,looks at bodies of students inside an ambulance outside a mosque in Damaturu on February 25, 2014.
Photo: APAt least 29 students were killed, some of them burnt alive during Boko Haram attack at a federal college in Buni Yadi.
A woman carrying a child stands near burnt houses in Baga. Photo: Reuters in early January 2015, Boko Haram attacked Baga town in Borno State. It was disclosed that on January 3, 2015, terrified residents of Baga town were forced to run into bushes in the town and surrounding villages when Boko Haram gunmen unloaded motorcycles from their trucks and chased after them.
Displaced residents of Baga revealed the shocking details about how insurgents seized the town and forced the locals to flee into the neighbouring Chad Republic. According to the military officials only 150 people were killed in a fierce attack.
Nevertheless, Human Rights Watch disclosed horrifying details of Boko Haram assault on Baga, showing it was the worst massacre conducted by jihadists in the last six years.
HRW report blamed Nigerian troops,who fled from the battlefield, leaving their weapons and unarmed civilians at mercy of blood-thirsty militants – and that’s why later military tried to downplay the number of casualties in Baga.
A woman with severe burns breastfeeds her baby at Maiduguri Hospital. Few people are realising the real scale of problem with refugees in Maiduguri.
Photo: ICRC Peter Maurer, who heads International committee of the Red Cross,assessed the situation with refugees in the capital of the Borno state as one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
The most of the population in Bornostate has been moved to Maiduguri,with its population grown more than twice, making it a city with more than two million inhabitants,” told Peter Maurer adding that “this is a big refugee crisis – one of the largest in the world”.
Former military top Alani Akinrinadeon June 18, Thursday,said that the Nigerian forces was not the solution to Boko Hara insurgency.
Lt-Gen Akinrinade (retd.), ex chief of army staff, made his position known in Kaduna during a seminar on the Africa’s Big Five.
At the same time, yesterday Boko Haram insurgents carried out an attack in Niger, killing scores of people.
BBC reports with reference to the country officials that at least 38 people died in the Wednesday night raid. Bulu Mammadu disclosed that there were women and children among the victims shot dead in two villages.
According to Reuters, the atrocity took place in southern Niger’s Diffa region, with the death toll reaching at least 30. A security source fears this figure might rise
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