Quite a number of people were killed in a suicide attack in Mubi, a town in Adamawa state. Confirming the incident, the chairman of Mubi North Local Government, Alhaji Musa Bello, said the blasts occurred around 1 30 pm. “All I can tell you for now is that I am on my way to the […]
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At least 40 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shiite cultural centre in Kabul on Thursday, officials said. It was the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the Taliban was quick to deny involvement in the […]
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Thirteen people have been killed and 53 others injured in a twin suicide bomb attack at Biu market in the south of Borno State. According to a statement by Victor Isuku, the spokesman for the Borno State Police Command, two female suicide attackers strapped with explosives launched the attack on the main market in the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that the Administration is taking the necessary measures to end the suicide bombings by Boko Haram terrorists, saying the attacks are like the last kicks of a dying horse. Speaking at the commissioning of the Pulaaku Radio in Yola, Adamawa State, on Sunday, the President, who was represented by […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday condemned the “very cruel and dastardly” suicide bomb blast in a mosque in Mubi, Adamawa. Buhari, in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Tuesday, commiserated with families of the several victims, government and people of the state. He assured […]
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The Adamawa Police Command says the death toll in Tuesday’s Mubi mosque suicide attack has risen to 50. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Othman Abubakar, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday. Mr. Abubakar said a young boy was responsible for the blast which occurred during the early morning prayer. […]
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Death toll in the massive bomb attack in a busy area of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday has risen to at least 230 people, police say. Hundreds more were wounded when a lorry packed with explosives detonated near the entrance of a hotel. It is the deadliest terror attack in Somalia since the Islamist […]
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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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