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Suicide Bombers Tried To Take My Life In 2021 – Pope Francis

David Folami — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:20:20 +0000

I escaped a double suicide bombing during a visit to Iraq three years ago, Pope Francis has said. He recently revealed that the attempts on his life were foiled by British intelligence and Iraqi police, and the world has been reacting. According to him, after landing in Baghdad in March 2021, he was told an [...]

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Female Suicide Bombers Kill One In Mora, Cameroon

David Folami — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 01:01:04 +0000

Four female suicide bombers killed one person and injured two others in Mora, near Cameroon’s northwest border with Nigeria. According to Punch, Mora is home to the headquarters of the first sector of the Mixed Multinational Force. Reports say the incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday, July 1, 2017. An eyewitness said the [...]

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Nigeria Army Offers N500K Reward For Information On Suicide Bombers

David Folami — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:54:17 +0000

The Nigerian Army has offered N500,000 reward for information that will lead to the arrest of suicide bombers or discovery of transit house of bombers or factory for making bomb. Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, said in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja that the cash reward for information followed the spate of suicide bombings [...]

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Nigerian Army Averted Major Catastrophe, Stopped 14 Female Suicide Bombers In Maiduguri

Wale Adebayo — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:30:31 +0000

The Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Yushau Abubakar, yesterday, revealed that troops under his command were able to neutralise 14 female suicide bombers during the Sunday’s attack on Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Abubakar said Maiduguri would have witnessed another major catastrophe had the the 14 suicide bombers successfully infiltrated the heart [...]

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Adamawa Suicide Bombing: Scores Reportedly Killed As Motor Park Attacked

Wale Adebayo — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:11:36 +0000

Scores were reportedly killed and many injured yesterday as two female suicide bombers attacked a busy motor park in Madagali area of Adamawa State. The female suicide bombers detonated their Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) at a mini market close to the bus station at around 9:00am, killing several people and injured many. The Brigade Commander of 28 Task [...]

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Insurgency: Army Confirms Suicide Bomb Attack In Madagali Motor Park, Adamawa

Ade Adewale — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 23:28:53 +0000

The Brigade Commander of 28 Task Force Brigade in Mubi, Brig.-Gen Victor Ezugwu, has confirmed that two female suicide bombers on Monday detonated Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Madagali village in Adamawa. He said the two female suicide bombers struck at a motor park in Madagali and detonated their devices and we lost some beloved [...]

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West African Leaders Consider Ban On Full-Face Veil Due To Insurgency

Wale Adebayo — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 20:31:55 +0000

ECOWAS leaders are currently studying a proposal to “forbid” women wearing full-face veils in a bid to curtail the growing number of female suicide bombers. The leaders, who met last week in Abuja, are considering a ban of the full-face veils in the region, popular with Muslim women, following the use of teenage girls dressed in [...]

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Nigerian Army Kill Four Maiduguri-Bound Suicide Bombers

Wale Adebayo — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:12:04 +0000

Nigerian army, on Wednesday, killed four would-be suicide bombers near a checkpoint on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The Nigerian Army said one of the four female bombers died when she detonated her explosive vest, while the three others were gunned down by the troops. “Today at about 7.30am 4 female suicide bombers [...]

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Boko Haram Planning To Attack Churches, Mosques, Markets In Abuja – DSS

Wale Adebayo — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 19:02:47 +0000

The Department of State Services (DSS) has alerted Abuja residents over plots by Boko Haram to attack churches, mosques and markets, using female suicide bombers, mostly young girls. A memo by the Director of Security Services, Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Ibrahim, urged religious bodies to put their members on the alert. The memo addressed to [...]

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There is Danger in overlooking Boko Haram’s Nigerian Terror

Ade Adewale — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 09:26:41 +0000

Tuesday’s bomb blast in Yola, Nigeria, killed at least 34 people and injured scores of others. The very next day, two suicide bombers hit the country’s northern city of Kano, killing at least 15 and injuring 53. Authorities are placing the blame for the attacks on Boko Haram, the Islamist insurgency that has wrought havoc [...]

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