At least 58 people were today killed in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, following three bomb blasts, including one by a…
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Despite ongoing truce talks between the federal government and the Boko Haram group, about 30 boys and girls have been…
SOLDIERS ON GUARD ON POST OFFICE ROAD IN Maiduguri Some residents of Maiduguri, Borno, on Thursday commended the Nigerian military for…
Gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect over the weekend blew off the popular Madafuma bridge…
A bomb-laden Peugeot 505 saloon car Tuesday exploded in Maiduguri, Borno State, killing over 50 persons, including 16 members of…
Nigeria’s Boko Haram : Maiduguri ‘preachers kill dozens’ Jun 5, 2014 Suspected Boko Haram militants have launched an attack on a village near the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing about 45 people. The attackers told villagers…
Suspected Boko Haram militants on Tuesday hurled explosives in Nigeria’s troubled northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing five police officers, while a separate blast killed three. The attacks were the latest to hit the Borno state capital, which is…
Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for an attack on a key military barracks in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, in a new video obtained on Monday by AFP that warns of further bloodshed, including against civilians. “We carried out the attacks…
Public secondary schools in northeast Borno state have been closed indefinitely following deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, teachers…
Suspected Islamist militants launched a brazen daytime attack in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Friday. Witnesses say gunmen armed with explosives stormed the Giwa military barracks, triggering a fierce gun battle with soldiers. The assailants…
Nigerian football authorities on Friday suspended all Premier League matches at El Kanemi Warriors’ home ground because of attacks by Boko Haram militants. El Kanemi play in Maiduguri, a stronghold of the Islamist group who were accused of staging new…
Explosions and gunfire rocked the volatile northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Friday as scores of suspected Boko Haram Islamists attacked a military barracks, residents said. The gunmen stormed the Fauri area of Maiduguri, a hotbed of the Boko Haram…
Residents of a northeast Nigerian town said Saturday hundreds of them have fled their homes for fear of attacks by Boko Haram militants who killed 43 people this week in a nearby village. About 400 men fled Bama on Friday to Maiduguri, the Borno state…
It has ben a string of attacks since Sunday, January 13 when Kawuri in Konduga LGA, Borno State was invaded…
10 people have been murdered by boko haram insurgents in Njaba village of Damboa Local Government on Tuesday while 8…
Nigeria’s military on Tuesday blamed Boko Haram militants for a deadly bomb attack that killed at least 17 in a crowded market in Maiduguri, in the latest violence to hit the country’s restive north. Army spokesman Muhammad Dole said a Honda car laden…
At least 17 people have been confirmed dead when an explosion ripped through a crowdy market in the north Nigerian…
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State’s convoy was, weekend, pelted with stones, sachet water and sand following allegations that he…
Brutal communal violence is being perpetuated in central Nigeria because of a failure to tackle the root causes of the bloodshed and prosecute those responsible, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The global rights monitor said in a new report that formal…
Human Rights Watch on Friday called for Boko Haram to stop targeting ordinary Nigerians, claiming the banned Islamist group had abducted scores of women and girls and used children as young as 12 in fighting. The organisation also called on the Nigerian…