Not less than eight persons were confirmed dead and 15 others critically injured Friday evening after two teenage female suicide bombers attacked a residential area of Dikwa, 80 kilometres from Maiduguri, Borno State capital. News of the attack got to Maiduguri late Saturday afternoon as local government officials from the attacked community said they could […]
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Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect have ambushed a team of oil exploration workers and security operatives in Borno state. A senior military source, who spoke with TheCable, said the incident happened at Magumeri in Gubio local government area of the state, on Tuesday. The source said the workers were returning from Borno Yeso […]
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The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has confirmed the death of four people after suicide bombers attacked two internally displaced persons, IDP camps in Maiduguri. Reports have it that the attacks on Dalori 1 and 2 IDP camps was carried out by four different suicide bombers between late Sunday and early Monday morning. In a […]
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Not less than 11 people have been reportedly killed while three sustained injuries in separate suicide attacks in Maiduguri. As reported by TheCable, a security source said that two bombers detonated their explosives around Molai Kalamari at exactly 10pm on Tuesday. He added that the second explosion took place at Sabongari Polo area of the […]
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Doctors Without Border, a humanitarian aid group, says a total of 240 displaced children have died of malnutrition in Borno state. Moctar Abari, emergency officer of the group – which is also known as Medicine Sans Frontiers (MSF) – made this known in an interview with NAN on Monday. Abari said the cases were recorded […]
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A helicopter belonging to the Nigerian air force (NAF) crashed into a pool of water in Maiduguri, Borno state, on Thursday. Olatokunbo Adesanya, spokesman of the force, who disclosed this in a statement, said no life was lost in the incident. Adesnaya said Sadique Abubakar, chief of air staff, had constituted a panel of inquiry […]
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The Army has confirmed that it lost four soldiers in Borno on Thursday when their patrol vehicle ran into a bomb trap on the road between Kangarwa and Alagarno village. The Army Spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, confirmed the incident in a statement on Friday, while giving update on troops’ clearance operations in the North-East between […]
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Justs hours after Boko Haram insurgents attacked some towns in Maiduguri, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo travelled Maiduguri, Borno state, to launch the special intervention relief plan for internally displaced persons (IDPs). On Wednesday, security agents engaged the insurgents in a gun battle that lasted hours. Though residents were assured of safety, many of them fled their […]
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The Police Command in Borno on Thursday confirmed the killing of 13 persons after Wednesdays multiple attack in Maiduguri. Mr Damian Chukwu, the Commissioner of Police in the state, disclosed this in Maiduguri at a news conference on the attack. “Suspected Boko Haram terrorists attacked Alidawari Village near Jiddari Polo area in Maiduguri on Wednesday. […]
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Three female suicide bombers were on Wednesday night prevented from attacking a military outpost popularly known as ‘Guantanamo’ along Muna garage, Maiduguri. Abdulkadir Ibrahim, spokesperson of the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA), in a statement, said security operatives killed the three teenagers. He noted that a security officer was however injured in the attempt to intercept […]
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