A notorious bandit leader, who adopted the name Shekau due to his notoriety, has been ambushed and killed by a rival faction ...

A notorious bandit leader operating around the Narewo River bank in Kachia LGA of Kaduna has been ambushed and killed by a ...

“From the previous discussions, it is clear that Muhammad Yusuf founded the Boko Haram movement and its first leader; and Abubakar Shekau, who succeeded him, was his first deputy,y and Muhammad Nur ...

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What is more important is the return of the children." Nearly 1,500 students have been kidnapped from their schools in Nigeria since 2014 when Boko Haram, under the leadership of idiosyncratic ...

The split was driven by deep ideological differences, particularly surrounding the leadership of Abubakar Shekau, the former leader of Boko Haram, who had previously sworn allegiance to ISIS ...

A former idiosyncratic leader of JAS, Abubakar Shekau, had in 2015 pledged allegiance to the leader of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, making him the leader of ISWAP.