OLA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, has seized more towns along Nigeria's northeastern border with Cameroon and is adopting a strategy of encouraging civilians to stay, witnesses said Sunday, as the militants pursue their new aim to carve out an "Islamic caliphate" under their black and white flag.
Related Stories Nigerian army soldiers fled when hundreds of insurgents in stolen military armored personnel carriers, trucks and motorcycles attacked Michika on Sunday, said Marry Dauda, a fleeing resident.

She said an air force jet fighter arrived, but did nothing but surveillance. "The jet continued to hover over the town without attacking the terrorists," she told The Associated Press.

On Saturday, the insurgents took Gulak, an administrative headquarters of Adamawa state, said resident Michael Kirshinga, who also ran away. The nearby towns of Duhu, Shuwa, Kirshinga and others also fell in assaults over Friday night and Saturday, witnesses said.

Further north, soldiers fought off rebels advancing Saturday on Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, headquarters of the military campaign against the insurgency and the birthplace of Boko Haram. The military attacked the rebels' camp at a village outside Kondudga, just 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Maiduguri.

Thunderous gunfire could be heard in Maiduguri throughout Saturday, instilling fear in already panicked residents. Hundreds fled the city even before hearing the sounds of battle.

The soldiers killed dozens of the extremists outside Konduga, said a member of the vigilante group that fights alongside the military. The soldiers were sent to retake the town of Bama, which fell to Boko Haram a week ago, but stopped at Konduga and refused to advance further, said a vigilante commander. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

Bama is littered with bodies, residents who fled the town told the AP. The extremists were killing men, but sparing women and children, they said.

In Gulak, however, the insurgents were trying to persuade people to stay, said resident Michael Kirshinga. "They assured us that they will not attack us, but people begun to run for their lives, some of us have fled for fear that, after subduing the soldiers, the insurgents will turn their (gun) barrels on us," Kirshinga said.

Nearly 26,000 people fled Bama, the Nigerian Emergency Management Agency reported. Those fleeing joined 1.5 million people forced from their homes since Nigeria declared a state of emergency in May 2013, according to U.N. figures. They need shelter and food, and officials warn of a looming food crisis since most refugees are farmers.

A Ministry of Defense statement Friday tried to reassure residents without success. Most fearful are students and staff at the University of Maiduguri, which is alongside a dry riverbed and on the road from Konduga to Maiduguri, a route Boko Haram has used in past attacks on the city.

"We are so very scared. If they are to come attacking, as has been rumored, we doubt if they would spare us because they have to pass in front of our school before getting to the town," student Halima Muhammad told The Associated Press. He said students writing end of term exams can barely concentrate.

In December, Boko Haram attacked the main Air Force base used for bombing raids on their camps, destroying five aircraft. In February, the militants assaulted the main army barracks in Maiduguri and freed hundreds of detainees. Boko Haram's April kidnapping of more than 300 schoolgirls, of whom more than 200 remain captive, attracted international attention and promises of help from several countries including the United States, China and former colonizer Britain.

Nigeria has a large army of some 80,000 troops with a budget of $2.3 billion but demoralized soldiers say they are outgunned by Boko Haram, and that some of their colleagues are colluding with and even fighting for the insurgents. Endemic corruption has officers stealing some of the pay of the rank and file, who complain they are dumped in remote areas and ordered to fight without food or water despite blistering temperatures.

Boko Haram now holds a string of towns in all three of the northeastern states that have been under a military emergency since May 2014 — Adamawa, Yobe and hardest-hit Borno.

The seizures come as the United States announced that it is about to launch a major border security program for Nigeria and its neighbors to fight Boko Haram.

U.S. assistant secretary for African affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, made the announcement Thursday when she and the United Nations expressed deep concern about the deteriorating security situation. In an apparent rebuke to the Nigerian government and the military's denials of the perilous situation, she said it was "past time for denial and pride."

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-CramJones

APC the politcal wing of Boko haram.

Opiosko: APC the politcal wing of Boko haram.

ah ah lets be objective for once now

U.S. assistant secretary for African affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, made the announcement Thursday when she and the United Nations expressed deep concern about the deteriorating security situation. In an apparent rebuke to the Nigerian government and the military's denials of the perilous situation, she said it was "past time for denial and pride."

hahahaha!

terrorists, extremists, insurgents, rebels, militants. Yahoo, have you exhausted your thesaurus?

AlfaSeltzer: hahahaha!

terrorists, extremists, insurgents, rebels, etc. Yahoo, have exhausted your thesaurus?

The are blood sucking haramites seeking for more blood and more virgins in Aljana fidaus. They are the Islamists who do not want us to be. They are those, President Jonathan has ignored for so long, making him also complicit. Ali Modu Sherrif still walks free. Is this really a country? I don't think so. It only becomes a country when Boko Haram has finalized their map. Wicked, incompetent and inept leadership!

-CramJones

Apc on the brink.

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tandj: Gaddamit!
@op, rnt u ashamed of urself. See how u and ur likes a scouting for bad news bc u are in d opposition.
Educate urself by checking out how opposition handle sensitive matters like security in other countries. Pls grow up!

With this ideology of pull him down, instead of getting people by ur side, people are leaving ur party in drones.

Don't u guys know what oppsition is for pete's sake?

Why do u guys celebrate bad news so much?

Shame on u guys!

And this guy is so full of himself. Yuk.

So you want the Haramites to keep taking over Nigeria, and you want the media to report a jamboree in Lagos? You mean you don't want Boko Haram take over of Nigeria reported? You want to be uninformed of the atrocities Boko Haram commits on a daily basis without any response from the presidency? Park well!

-CramJones

makeitsoon:

ah ah lets be objective for once now

Nobody ever said that we don't have a security challenge. What i said is that APC and boko haram are kin. APC is boko haram and Boko haram is APC. They can never fool 160 million Nigerians to beliv on the contrary no matter the amount of propaganda chennes they employ to confuse us. APC is celebrating boko haram's unspeackable crimes against Nigerians and rubbishing the effort of of security forces.

Attention seeker on the prowl, enemy of the state in action. People avoid this thread like a plague. Your wish of destruction for Nigeria and the present government will not stand.

This doesnt look good. Dont even know which news is credible anymore here.

makeitsoon:

ah ah lets be objective for once now

Don't mind these 'herded' fans of GEJ and the PDP. Like the ogas they worship in the PDP, it is never about accepting responsibility as someone in a position of power. For these cowards and weaklings, it is entirely about blaming others while Nigeria burns. Sadly for them, foreigners are not brought up on the same diet of ethno-religious prejudice that has now blinded many Nigerians to the simple realisation of how we must all, whatever political camp we are in, ask those in power to stop the blame game and deal with terror decisively.

Do these fans of the PDP think of the impression they create about Nigeria before the entire world when they always senselessly portray a new opposition Party as more powerful and more dominating than the ruling Party of 15 years? What is stopping the PDP from bringing culprits to justice even if they are APC members? All the talk and shamelessly impotent finger-pointing, with no actions seen at all, is why foreign observers without the bias or compromised mentality of Nigerians ask our official ruling government to act and recognise that the grave and dangerous situation today means it is "past time for denial and pride".

Please do we still have a honest government/military official who can just tell us the simple truth?
These media people and our government are dancing collabo with us.
Yesterday was a very nice air war machine sampling with the caption,"Rest in pieces Bokos",I was happy,waiting for "The End",but today is another story,which kind janglova game be this sef?

Opiosko: Nobody ever said that we don't have a security challenge. What i said is that APC and boko haram are kin. APC is boko haram and Boko haram is APC. They can never fool 160 million Nigerians to beliv on the contrary no matter the amount of propaganda chennes they employ to confuse us. APC is celebrating boko haram's unspeackable crimes against Nigerians and rubbishing the effort of of security forces.

This has been going on since 114 A.D, we are tired of blame game and trash talk, GEJ should bring them to justice even if they are APC memebrs NOW! Now tell me what is he waiting for? Why hasnt he taken the bull by the horn since 2012 when he mentioned that bh people are in his cabinet? This blame game of yours makes you look unintelligent in spite of all the killings and evil of the bh people. The FG must bring the terrorists and their sponsors to justice, must prosecute everyone involved and must not b complicit in the matter. Or dont GEJ knows the powers he carries as president?

God! These terrorists are been called REBELS did anyone noticed this in that report. Someone is trying to rebrand these b.a.s.t.a.r.d.s.

okay them go fight wen time reach

Boko Haram has captured Michika In Adamawa state. The acting registrar of Adamawa State University, Mubi, Mallam Hassan Tanko annouced the indefinate closure of the institution yesterday.

So far the towns captured by Boko Haram in Adamawa state are:

Madagali
Gulak
Michika

when will they stop speaking anonymously, eh? stop this aproko pls or at least be kind enough to tell gullible minds say nah aproko

chai

makeitsoon:

This has been going on since 114 A.D, we are tired of blame game and trash talk, GEJ should bring them to justice even if they are APC memebrs NOW! Now tell me what is he waiting for? Why hasnt he taken the bull by the horn since 2012 when he mentioned that bh people are in his cabinet? This blame game of yours makes you look unintelligent in spite of all the killings and evil of the bh people. The FG must bring the terrorists and their sponsors to justice, must prosecute everyone involved and must not b complicit in the matter. Or dont GEJ knows the powers he carries as president?

Well yes GEJ knows the power at his disposals as the President, but the politics of boko haram is one that must be played with wisdom. Take a look at what is going on, can u recall the circumstances of GEJ's emergence as presido? The politics that played out then is exactly what is going on now though in a diffrnt garb. Recall when Ihejirica was COAS, he dealt with the boko hounds untill the fled to Cameroun nd Niger but the north accussed him of revenge and genocide. Now the same Ihegirica is being frame as a sponsor of the sect....an Igbo man and a Christain using Arabs, Fulanis, Hausa islamists to wage war on hausa/fulani land...( how possible is that) and don't forget that boko haram started long time ago when Ihejirica was under some norther officials and GEJ was some unknown deputy govt in Bayelsa state. Yet some sections of Nigerians are celebrating these obvious lies from the pit of hell as facts. APC is a party formed to present a political front for these evil demons in human skin, it's the arrow head of this doomsday politics. So it's not easy as u think but we will get them no matter what or how long it takes. God bless Nigeria.

Opiosko: Nobody ever said that we don't have a security challenge. What i said is that APC and boko haram are kin. APC is boko haram and Boko haram is APC. They can never fool 160 million Nigerians to beliv on the contrary no matter the amount of propaganda chennes they employ to confuse us. APC is celebrating boko haram's unspeackable crimes against Nigerians and rubbishing the effort of of security forces.

You be big ODE!

"PDP is Boko Haram, Boko Haram is PDP" - Azazi. And they killed after he said that. Deal with it.

splashbaby: God! These terrorists are been called REBELS did anyone noticed this in that report. Someone is trying to rebrand this b.a.s.t.a.r.d.s.

are they not in rebellion against the government?

Booked

experimentist: are they not in rebellion against the government?

Not the same meaning as terrorists who are interested in killings without any form of ideology. Terrorists are not rebels!

tandj: Gaddamit!
@op, rnt u ashamed of urself. See how u and ur likes a scouting for bad news bc u are in d opposition.
Educate urself by checking out how opposition handle sensitive matters like security in other countries. Pls grow up!

With this ideology of pull him down, instead of getting people by ur side, people are leaving ur party in drones.

Don't u guys know what oppsition is for pete's sake?

Why do u guys celebrate bad news so much?

Shame on u guys!

And this guy is so full of himself. Yuk.

I actually dont know the problem of you guys. BH is a time bomb waiting to explode. A menace that should have been delt with long ago, but the insensitivity of this administration(as our president once said he is been treating terrorism with kids gloves) and the greed of some senior officers, we find our selves in this situation. I wonder how this is celebration of bad news, how long will u keep living in denial to tje reality on ground. Most of the SE supporters of GEJ keep shouting its a Northern problem but forgot that so far, they are the worst hit after the Northerners because they are everywhere,they hardly stay in thier respective States yet they shout Biafra.


Nigeria on the brink

experimentist: You be big ODE!

"PDP is Boko Haram, Boko Haram is PDP" - Azazi. And they killed after he said that. Deal with it.

Deal with what? That's ur opinion a nd ur headache so u are the one to deal with it...pls sober us, it's too early be drunk or are u surffrin from a hangover..

the fact that the article only highlighted gains by boko haram [which ain't confirmed], and used the confessions of fleeing people [usually in a distraught state of mind] shows there's a systematic plan to instill fear in Nigerians and ultimately make the Nigerian government look irresponsible in the international community.

we have over 170 million people in this country, can't we just form a group to counter this foreign medias ? this is not just a physical battle, there's a psychological element to it as well, and I believe we that are sitting in the comfort of our homes can fight back.. we have our computers and modems.. what's stopping us?

BokoHaramInfo1: Get more information on the activities of Boko Haram sect at www...com. The information on the site have been verified, so you are sure it's the truth.

Get more information on the activities of Boko Haram sect at www...com. The information on the site have been verified, so you are sure it's the truth.

Get more information on the activities of Boko Haram sect at www...com. The information on the site have been verified, so you are sure it's the truth.

Bro,how market na
Seems it aint moving in d celebrity blog,u've decided to try xumtin different from d usual...not a bad one though











#BTW,are u blogging from BH camp#

donvidar:












Bro,how market na
Seems it aint moving in d celebrity blog,u've decided to try xumtin different from d usual...not a bad one though











#BTW,are u blogging from BH camp#

Hahaha! God punish hunger. I cant fit laff.. Choi!

splashbaby: Not the same meaning as terrorists who are interested in killings without any form of ideology. Terrorists are not rebels!

They're terrorist yes, yet rebels.. They've took up arms against the government and the people. Or don't you know the meaning of rebel?