A 13-year-old girl has accused her father of giving her to Nigeria’s Boko Haram group that ordered her to explode a suicide bomb in Kano city. The girl said she and two other females were sent to carry out an attack on a textile market but after the other detonated[…]
Two explosions in two northeast Nigerian states on Monday killed at least 26 people and injured 79, rescue and health officials said. A car bomb at a bus station in Gombe city killed at least 20 people and injured 60, according to Red Cross official Abubakar Yakubu. Those killed were “burned[…]
Boko Haram radicals killed 32 people and kidnapped scores of others, including women and children, in a brutal attack on a village in the northeast, officials and a witness said Thursday. In neighbouring Cameroon, the Islamic extremists launched a raid on army base in the border town of Amchide, but[…]
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on Thursday stormed two towns in northeast Nigeria, raiding banks and burning government buildings as well as political party offices, residents told AFP. Scores of gunmen dressed in military uniform arrived in Bajoga, 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Gombe city in a convoy of 20 vehicles[…]
Two explosions have ripped through a market in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, witnesses said, nearly a week after two female suicide bombers attacked the same area, killing more than 45 people. “A middle-aged woman approached the site where chicken sellers attend to customers but vigilantes who stood nearby insisted[…]
Scores of people have reportedly been killed after suspected Boko Haram fighters, who arrived on motorcycles throwing bombs, raided a town in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state. Reuters quoted residents as saying that scores of people had been killed in the town of Shani after nightfall on Saturday, but a police[…]
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen disguised as traders opened fire Monday at a crowded market in a northeast Nigeria border town, a military officer and a local official said. It was not yet possible to give a death toll, the senior officer with direct knowledge of the raid told AFP. The[…]
The process of sending the bodies of those killed in the Nigerian church building collapse to their places of burial has commenced, government said on Tuesday. This followed the official reception ceremony for 74 victims held at Waterkloof Air Force Base on Sunday, Nigeria inter-ministerial task team spokeswoman Phumla Williams[…]
The ANC saluted and thanked President Jacob Zuma on Sunday for intervening in the prolonged repatriation of the bodies of 85 people killed over two months ago in a church building collapse in Nigeria. “The situation of delayed repatriation of the deceased made the pain and agony of the bereaved[…]
A team appointed to expedite the repatriation of the remains of 85 people from South Africa who died when a church building collapsed in Lagos will leave for Nigeria on Friday, government said. “A mass body repatriation team consisting of 80 specialist members from the department of health, the SA[…]
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