Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease chronic food shortages for the remote region’s starving millions. Subsistence agriculture is a lifeline in the northeast but the eight-year Islamist insurgency has devastated activities, causing a desperate lack of food and sky-high prices. Many […]
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An attack by Boko Haram jihadists on the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed 14 people, police said on Thursday, the first official toll. The fighters had attacked the city’s suburbs on Wednesday night with anti-aircraft guns, said Damian Chukwu, police commissioner of Borno State, of which Maiduguri is the capital. Maiduguri is the epicentre […]
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Boko Haram jihadists have killed six farmers who were working on their land near the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, civilian militia members and locals told AFP on Monday. Gunmen on motorcycles attacked a group preparing fields for the rainy season outside the village of Amrawa, 16 kilometres (10 miles) from the Borno State capital, […]
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Four people were killed in two separate suicide attacks in northeast Nigeria on Monday, local militia members said, in the latest violence blamed on Boko Haram Islamists. Babakura Kolo, who assists the military with security against the jihadist insurgents, said the first incident occurred in Mammanti village, 15 kilometres (10 miles) east of Maiduguri. “Three […]
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The Borno Police Command on Monday confirmed the death of two suspected suicide bombers, 48 hours after muslim worshippers foiled a mosque attack in Maiduguri. Mr Victor Isuku, the spokesman of the command, disclosed this in a statement in Maiduguri. “In the early hours of today (Monday), the bodies of two male suicide bombers were […]
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Nigerian police confirm that three suicide bombers blew themselves up attempting to get into the northeastern city of Maiduguri. Police spokesman Victor Isuku said that on Sunday morning two men detonated explosive vests when security agents challenged them near an entry to Maiduguri, the northeastern city that has sustained several attacks. He said the bombers […]
Read More Suicide bomb blasts rocked a camp for migrants who have fled Boko Haram insurgents near Nigeria’s restive northeastern city of Maiduguri early Wednesday, officials said. “There were four explosions inside the camp,” the coordinator of the Muna camp Tijjani Lumani told AFP. “The bombers struck at different locations around 4:30 am. “The explosions triggered fires […]
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Civilian vigilantes foiled a suicide attack on the outskirts of Nigeria’s flashpoint city of Maiduguri, killing two teenaged female bombers, police said on Sunday. Boko Haram’s Islamist insurgency has frequently used young women and girls to stage suicide bombings. “Two female suicide bombers, about 18 years of age… were sighted by the civilian JTF (vigilantes) […]
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Residents of Jos and Maiduguri on Friday trooped to the streets to celebrate the return of President Muhammad Buhari to Nigeria after over a month in London. Bauchi Road in Jos was early on Friday besieged by jubilating residents, causing traffic hold up and disrupting activities. Mr Kwajafa Hassan, a resident in Jos, described the […]
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Borno state in northeast Nigeria has lost property worth about $6 billion to the war against Boko Haram since 2009. A Special Assistant to the state Governor, Mr Isa Gusau, said that 956,453 houses were destroyed across the 27 local government areas, about 30 per cent of the number houses in the state. “It would […]
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Eight people were killed Wednesday in northeast Nigeria when a suspected female suicide bomber detonated her explosives near a camp housing displaced people, officials said. Police said the body of the suspected woman bomber was believed to have been among others found on the roadside in Maiduguri, the capital of northeast Borno state. It was […]
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MAJOR roads to and from Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria have been re-opened, the chief of army staff said on Saturday, nearly three years after they were shut because of Boko Haram attacks. Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai said restrictions had been lifted between the Borno state capital and Damboa to the southwest, southeast to Bama, and east […]
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