Tag: Maiduguri

Two days ago (on 12th February 2014) in Borno state, the extremist Boko Haram sect killed 60 innocent Nigerians and ...

There was a delay at the beginning of the exercise in the state The All Progressives Congress, APC, Borno chapter, on ...

Residents of the volatile Nigerian state of Borno are  beginning to worry the more over an increasing spate of attacks ...

The matriculation ceremony was held in Borno. The Kashim College of Education (KCE) in Borno on Friday matriculated 955 students ...

Villagers narrated how the attack occurred. Some villagers in farming communities around Maiduguri said they buried 18 of their neighbours ...

Residents and police officers thought the box contained explosives. There was a bomb scare in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, ...

Borno APC politicians blame one another for the blast. An aide to former governor Ali Sheriff of Borno was bribed ...

The Borno state government had imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the city. The Borno Government on Tuesday relaxed ...

The suspects fled to Cameroon. At least two Nigerian soldiers, four police officers, and several civilians were reportedly killed when ...

The ex-governor was rushed out of Maiduguri. A former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, who has come under ...

Youth accuse former governor of instigating explosion A protest has broken out in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, a few ...

A car bomb, suspected to have been detonated by a suicide bomber, has exploded in a densely populated commercial area ...

The FRSC said the accident was caused by “route violation". The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Kano Command, on Wednesday ...

The bomb maker was captured during a gun battle with JTF operatives The Kano State Joint Task Force, JTF, on ...

Hundreds of suspected Boko Haram terrorists launched a fierce attack Friday on Bama, Borno state, sacking the military barrack there, ...

INEC said no election could hold under martial law such as a state of emergency. The Independent National Electoral Commission ...

GSM services were shut in Borno for over seven months. A cross section of residents of Maiduguri on Wednesday expressed ...

Scores of people are believed to have been killed Scores of people including military personnel were killed as suspected Boko ...

France said it is trying to confirm the identity of the kidnappers. Cameroonian authorities, on Thursday, said gunmen had kidnapped ...

The Senate last week approved President Goodluck Jonathan’s request to extend the emergency another six months. Residents of Maiduguri, the ...

President Jonathan had announced the declaration of the emergency rule in the three states on May 14. President Goodluck Jonathan ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has again expressed profound outrage at the senseless and incessant killings of innocent people by ...

New warfare strategies adopted by soldiers of the Nigerian Army against Boko Haram fighters in Northeast Nigeria is frustrating the ...

The state government will also compensate traders who lost their shops. Borno government is to rebuild about 200 houses destroyed ...

The army has evolved new strategies to tackle attacks on civilians, a commander said. Islamist Boko Haram fighters who lay ...