Four suicide bombers struck Mairanti, a village near Maiduguri in Nigeria’s Borno state on Thursday night. News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reported that the incident occurred around 10pm when most residents were indoors, but no casualties were recorded except the bombers. Bashir Garga, the northeast coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, confirmed the […]
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Reports have emerged that two policemen sustained injuries after a male suicide bomber struck in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, on Thursday night. The attack happened hours after the insurgents engaged security operatives in a gun battle. Boko Haram had attempted to infiltrate the ancient city but they were repelled by a combined team of soldiers, […]
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The Nigerian Air Force says its Special Forces in conjunction with some Nigerian Army troops, successfully foiled a suicide bomb attack by Boko Haram terrorists at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Borno State, on Sunday night. AVM Olatokunbo Adesanya, NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, confirmed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. […]
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Boko Haram killed at least 18 people and wounded scores in coordinated attacks overnight on a military camp and villages around the flashpoint Nigerian city of Maiduguri, which they also tried to infiltrate across a defensive trench, officials said Monday. The brazen operation — which unfolded around the very city where Boko Haram was born […]
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No fewer than 17 people were killed and eight others injured in an explosion on Thursday outside a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. A spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Security, Abdiaziz Ali Ibrahim, told the media that the wounded were being treated at the city’s hospitals. “Seventeen people died including a young girl, […]
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The Borno state command of the Nigeria Police Force, has given hint that Boko Haram is planning to attack Maiduguri, capital of the state, with vehicles primed with improvised explosive device (IED). Ahmed Bello, an assistant commissioner of police, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. Bello said the attack was beng coordinated by dislodged Boko […]
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The Police in Nigeria has confirmed the threat to attack the Federal Capital Territory and six other states in the country. The United States and United Kingdom missions in Nigeria had warned of possible attacks in the FCT, Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, and Yobe on soft targets by Boko Haram insurgents. Following the warning, […]
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The federal government on Sunday has said there is no cause for alarm over alleged plans by terrorists to attack the Federal Capital Territory and elsewhere around the country. This was said in a statement by Segun Adeyemi, special adviser to the minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed on Sunday. The United States and […]
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The governments of the United Kingdom and the United States have warned their citizens of threat to carry out bomb attacks in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, during the Yuletide. The government of the United Kingdom listed worship places, malls and markets amongst other places that should be avoided. The advisory read: “The risk of […]
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At least 235 people have been reportedly killed in an attack that took place at The al-Rawda mosque in Egypt. The mosque, which is situated in Bir al-Abed, near al-Arish, was targeted during Friday prayers. BBC reports that no group has claimed responsibility of the attack but there have been attacks on churches and security operatives […]
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