(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73028000/jpg/_73028124_nigeriabornomaiduguriizghe4640214.jpg) Residents who fled the attack in Izghe said some of the victims were shot, while others had their throats slit.
"All the dead bodies of the victims are still lying in the streets," resident Abubakar Usman told Reuters news agency.
"We fled without burying them, fearing the terrorists were still lurking in the bushes."
Other witnesses described how the attackers had arrived on Saturday evening in trucks and motorcycles.
They asked the men in the village to gather, and then they hacked and shot them to death.
More than 30 people were killed in the town of Konduga, also in Borno state, earlier this week in an attack blamed on Boko Haram.
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73028000/jpg/_73028122_konduga.jpg) Borno state officials say 70% of Konduga town was raised to the ground by Boko Haram this week Following the attack in Konduga, the governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima, called for more troops to be deployed to combat Boko Haram militants fighting in the area.
Numerous villages in the area around the state capital of Maiduguri have been attacked in recent months, despite the state being under emergency rule.
Frustrated with the army's efforts to combat the rebellion, President Goodluck Jonathan replaced his top military brass on 16 January.
The attack on Izghe will be the biggest since those new appointments.
Boko Haram has killed many hundreds of Christians and Muslims since it launched a campaign of mass violence in 2009.
Source: BBC.co.uk