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US approves $346m bombs, missiles sale to Nigeria
US approves $346m bombs, missiles sale to help Nigeria crush terrorists, smugglers. The United States (US) has signed off on…
Al Shabaab now making deadly bombs, UN raises alarm
A secret UN report said Al Shabaab, Somali Islamist insurgents are making their own bombs, as they mount more frequent…
US military drops ‘mother of all bombs on IS’ in Afghanistan
The US military says it has dropped the most destructive non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat on an Islamic State…
Boko Haram’s female suicide bombers often unaware they’re carrying bombs – UN expert
Many of the young girls Boko Haram sends out as suicide bombers in Nigeria and neighbouring countries are probably unaware…
US approves $1.29 bn sale of bombs to Saudi Arabia
The United States has approved a $1.29 billion deal to replenish the Saudi air force’s arsenal, depleted by its controversial…
Boko Haram using iPads, laptops, phones for bombs – Arase
AP — Nigeria’s police chief is warning that Boko Haram extremists are building bombs in iPads and cellphones and leaving…
Is Boko Haram Gaining The Upperhand?
An unchallenged attack by Boko Haram on Friday in Damboa, which left over 100 people dead and sacked scores from…
Police find Biafra war bombs, rocket launcher
The Nigerian police in Imo on Tuesday announced the recovery of weapons abandoned during the Nigerian Civil War, 43 years…
Bombs: Nigeria police offers safety tips
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Kano state police Command Monday evening gave security tips to Kano residents ahead of Tuesday’s Christmas celebration and…
11 killed as suicide bombers hit Nigerian army church
The Nigerian army said that the two blasts today at a church in the military barracks in Jaji, Kaduna state…
1000 bombs recovered by Nigerian police in Kano
The Anti-Bomb disposal unit of the Kano State Police Command recovered and defused 996 different calibre of Improvised Explosive Devices…
Soldiers seize Boko Haram weapons after raid
Nigerian troops recovered weapons in raids on suspected Boko Haram bases in two northern cities, officials said Saturday. A raid…
Biafran war bombs evacuated in Enugu
The Anti-Bomb Squad of Nigeria’s Enugu State Police Command has evacuated two unexploded ordinance that were abandoned during the Nigerian…
Nigeria troops intercept rocket launchers, bombs, rifles
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) on Tuesday said it intercepted rocket launchers, rocket bombs and…
Bombs, gunfire rock Damaturu again
Gunfire and explosions rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Saturday as security forces launched a pre-emptive offensive against…
Religious War Looms, Clerics Warn
As bombs continue to go off in northern Nigerian churches and a horde of Christians are massacred by Boko Haram,…
Bombed Nigerian state relaxes curfew
By Femi Adi/Kaduna After observing that relative calm has returned to Kaduna state, Kaduna State government has relaxed the 24…
24 hour curfew slammed on Kaduna
The Kaduna state government has imposed a 24 hour curfew, following the bombings today of no fewer than five churches…
3 churches bombed in Kaduna state
Bombs have exploded in three churches in the volatile Nigeria’s North western Kaduna state, two of them in Zaria and…
Bombs: Plateau cautions youths on law and order
As calm returns to Jos, after Sunday’s suicide bomb attack on Christ Chosen Church, the state government has cautioned youths…
Nigeria: security forces stumble on bomb factory
Security forces found weapons and bomb-making stocks during a house raid Saturday in the violence-plagued central Nigerian city of Jos,…
Oyo state-born Boko Haram commander arrested
Nigerian troops in Kano arrested a suspected leading Boko Haram militant in a raid Friday, a day after the restive…
Suicide Bomber Hits Police Commissioner’s convoy
A suicide bomb attack targeting a senior police official’s convoy in north eastern Nigeria on Monday killed at least two…
7 confirmed dead in Bayero varsity attacks
The police in Kano said seven persons died and many others injured in a bomb attack on worshippers at Bayero…
How Nigerian Media Houses Were Bombed – SSS
Nigeria’s intelligence agency, the State Security Service has shed more light on the bombings of the Abuja and Kaduna Bureau…
8 Die in Bombing of Nigeria’s Thisday Offices
Nigeria’s emergency agencies and medics are still counting the dead in the suicide bombing of the Abuja office of Leaders…
Boko Haram’s Bomb factory found in Adamawa
Nigerian authorities have discovered a house allegedly being used by the militant Boko Haram to manufacture bombs in the country’s…
Boko Haram: Army Raids yield Bombs, guns, rocket launchers
Amidst travel warnings to foreigners coming to Nigeria and the security alert in the country itself, the Nigerian authorities have…
World Leaders Vow To Fight Nuclear Terrorism
World leaders Tuesday pledged strong action to combat the threat of nuclear terrorism, including minimising civilian use of highly enriched…
Friendly Bombs kill 3 Boko Haram members
The military authorities in Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria’s north eastern state of Maiduguri have confirmed the death of three suspected…