The United Nations (UN) has expressed deep concern over the recent mass killing of fishermen and farmers in Borno State, allegedly carried out by members of a non-state armed group in Kukawa Local Government Area. In a statement on Wednesday, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohamed Fall, described the incident as horrific. Reports indicate that on 12 January, at …

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state has strongly condemned Sunday’s deadly attack on farmers and fishermen at Dumba, near Baga in Kukawa Local Government Area, by suspected ISWAP terrorists. The state Commissioner for Information and Internal Security, Usman Tar, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Maiduguri, the state capital. Tar said initial reports indicated that the attackers killed …

No fewer than 27 fishermen were slaughtered and four others were abducted by the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād popularly known as Boko Haram terrorist group in the fringes of Lake Chad on the border between Cameroon and Nigeria. It was gathered that terrorists suspected to be from the Buduma faction of Abou Ummaymah attacked a local fishing community harbouring …