Boko Haram jihadists killed 10 civilians in attacks on three villages in Borno, local security officials said Monday. Babakura Kolo, the leader of a government-backed anti-jihadist militia, told AFP the insurgents had carried out the assaults on Sunday. Kolo said they raided the village of Kurmari, 40 kilometres (25 miles) from regional capital Maiduguri, late
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The senator representing Borno South Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Ali Ndume, narrated how Boko Haram terrorists killed 75 members of his community in Gwoza Local Government Area in one night.The situation is overwhelming. People are dying every day, either from attacks or by hunger. We have lost many lives here. Ndume made this
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The bomb explosion that killed at least 5 people near the crowded Thursday evening in the city of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State on July 30, 2020, was just the latest of dozens of attacks that have battered northern Nigeria. Triple explosions went off in the Custom Area of the state, which is densely
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Army Headquarters says a depressed soldier serving in 2 Battalion of 21 Special Armoured Brigade Bama, Borno State, went berserk, shot and killed an officer on Wednesday. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Musa said the incident occurred when the soldier approached the
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The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Umara Zulum has early Saturday morning launched the distribution of food items to internally displaced persons and the most vulnerable citizens across wards in Borno state as part of palliatives to cushion the effects of lockdown imposed to contain spread of COVID19. Zulum did the brief flag off at
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Angry Borno residents, on Wednesday, booed President Muhammadu Buhari, as his convoy drove through Maiduguri, the state capital. Buhari, upon returning from a five-day trip to Ethiopia for an African Union summit, paid a condolence visit to the north-eastern state, following a Boko Haram attack. Though Buhari and his aides had repeatedly told Nigerians that
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Jihadists aligned with the Islamic State group have killed five security personnel, including two soldiers, in three separate attacks in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, sources said Wednesday. In the first attack on Monday, fighters from the Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP) jihadist group aboard trucks attacked a military post in Tungushe village near the state
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Sad Report coming from Borno State in Nigeria indicates that Boko Haram terrorists have killed at least 30 people and abducted many women and children in a raid in the State. The attack Sunday evening targeted the village of Auno on a key highway, linking the capital, Maiduguri. The residents lamented that 18 vehicles comprising
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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it has neutralised some key Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) leaders at Alafa Yagayaga on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest in Borno. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, who made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the operation was conducted
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Security sources say six soldiers have lost their lives in a gun battle between government forces and Boko Haram insurgents in Mainok and Benesheikh communities along the Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway between 11am and 1pm on Tuesday. It was learnt that the insurgents suffered more casualties during the battle. Security sources revealed that the police also played a great role in repelling the insurgents. According to a
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