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British police arrest man claiming to have bomb
British police on Friday said they had arrested a man at London’s Charing Cross railway station who claimed he had…
Bomb scare: Edo police parade Bomb manufacturers
Three suspects who were arrested in connection with the explosion that claimed one life in Okpela, Etsako East local government…
11 killed in Gamboru mosque suicide bomb attack
A teenage suicide bomber killed 11 people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the epicentre…
Update: Death toll in Somali bomb attack hits 230
A massive bomb attack in a busy area of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday is now known to have…
Bomb Injures Police Officers In Turkey
Security officials said on Monday that two police officers received minor injuries when explosive materials were thrown at their vehicle…
‘No bomb planted at American Embassy in Lagos’ – CP
The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr Fatai Owoseni, on Thursday, said there was no bomb planted at the…
WWII bomb found near petrol station in Greece
An unexploded World War II bomb discovered in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki was defused on Sunday after a…
Man nabbed for bombing radio station
A Lokoja Chief Magistrate’s Court on Friday ordered the remand of a middle-aged man, Hayatudeen Amoto, in prison for allegedly…
Lagos allays fear on bomb scare in Agege
The Lagos State Government on Monday allayed fears of residents on suspected explosive substance which was allegedly dropped in a…
Police detonates bomb near U.S. embassy
Philippine police on Monday conducted a controlled detonation of a homemade bomb found in a trash bin near the U.S.…
Indonesia-bound flight evacuated after hearing “bomb”
People on board an AirAsia flight bound for Indonesia on Wednesday were ordered to disembark the plane after a passenger…
Detained Chibok schoolgirl had 12kg of bombs
A would-be suicide bomber who told Cameroon officials she was one of 219 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in…
Fleeing Boko Haram terrorists bomb themselves
Troops of 81 Battalion and 251 Task Force Battalion of 25 Task Force Brigade who engaged in the hot pursuit…
Bomb explosion at police station kills 4 in Yola
Reuters: Several explosives seized from Boko Haram militants blew up at a police station in northern Nigeria on Thursday, killing…
Kogi: Police foil attempt to bomb Audu’s house
Kazeem Ugbodaga As the race to the Lugard House, Kogi State Government House, heats up, the political environment in the…
White House receives Muslim teen falsely accused of making a bomb
Washington (AFP) – The Muslim teenager who was detained when his teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb visited…
16 killed as bombs rock Damaturu
At least 16 people were reportedly killed on Wednesday morning when a suicide bomber blew himself up around Ministry of…
Lagos Police dismiss GT Bank bomb story
The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday said that the scary story that a car bomb was planted at a…
Boko Haram planning to bomb my residence – Osinbajo
Nigeria Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo who has been visiting camps of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs in the North east as well…
Nigerian troops recover vehicle loaded with bomb
Nigeria military authorities said a jeep full of Improvised Explosives Devises (IED) was among the weapons recovered by troops conducting…
Bomb threats prompts White House press room evacuation
The White House press room was evacuated over a bomb threat after a phone call alerted the Metropolitan Police Department,…
Bomb kills two, injures 33 in Maiduguri
MAIDUGURI, (Reuters) – A bomb hidden in a pile of scrap metal beside a busy road has killed two people…
Bombing on bridge in Egypt capital kills one
A bomb exploded near a police checkpoint on bridge in an affluent Cairo neighbourhood on Sunday, killing an officer, Egyptian…
Bombs found in displaced people’s camp in Maiduguri
Nigerian soldiers on Saturday detonated two homemade bombs found in a camp housing people displaced by Boko Haram violence in…
Police arrest 10 for looting at scene of bombing in Gombe
The police in Gombe on Friday arrested 10 youths who tried to take advantage of a suicide bombing incident to…
Police defuse bomb at Kano market
The Kano State Police Command on Thursday said it had diffused “a high-calibre bomb” discovered at the Dawanau International Grains…
Bomb wounds three in Egyptian capital
A bomb hidden in a rubbish bin wounded three people in the Egyptian capital before dawn on Saturday, the interior…
8 dead, 34 injured in triple bombing in Gombe
A triple bombing at a bus station during Friday morning rush hour in north Nigeria killed at least eight people…
We cannot bomb IS into obscurity – US military
The United States military cannot bomb the Islamic State group into “obscurity,” it cautioned Tuesday, appealing for patience in its…
Four Islamists arrested over failed bomb plot in Germany
Germany put on trial Monday four alleged Islamist militants for plotting a failed bomb attack at a railway station and…