Tag: Borno State
UPDATE: Three Boko Haram bombings kill 58, injures 139 in Borno
Three bombings, including one by a female suicide attacker, killed at least 58 people and wounded 139 others in northeast…
Don’t rush home, Borno govt tells displaced persons
The Borno Government on Saturday advised Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) whose communities had been reclaimed by the military to exercise…
UPDATE: At least 47 dead, 50 wounded in Borno bombings
Three bombings in northeast Nigeria’s city of Maiduguri on Saturday killed at least 47 people, including children, and wounded 50,…
Three bombings in Borno kill at least 33
Three bombings rocked separate targets in northeast Nigeria’s largest city of Maiduguri on Saturday, killing at least 33 people, witnesses…
Bomb rips through Maiduguri market killing many
Three bombings rocked separate targets in northeast Nigeria’s largest city of Maiduguri on Saturday, killing at least 33 people, witnesses…
Work begins to rebuild Chibok girls’ school – FG
Nigeria’s government on Friday said that work had begun to rebuild a school in the northeastern town of Chibok from…
Troops now in full control of Mafa in Borno – DHQ
The Defence Headquarters said on Thursday that Nigerian troops were now in full control of Mafa, Borno, after clearing terrorists…
Boko Haram kills 68, including children, in Borno
Boko Haram gunmen killed 68 people, including many children, in a massacre in the northeast Nigeria village of Njaba, two…
Female suicide bomber kills 3 in Borno
A woman suicide bomber on Saturday killed two passers-by and her accomplice in an attack in northeast Nigeria, witnesses and…
Suicide bomber blows up Biu bus stop
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus station in Biu, northeast Nigeria, on Thursday, while a second…
Explosion kills 11 at check point in Biu, Borno State
Eleven people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a checkpoint near the town of Biu in northeast Nigeria…
Boko Haram destroys Askira Uba, forcing residents to flee
Hundreds of Boko Haram militants stormed the town of Askira Uba in northeast Nigeria, burning homes and public buildings, as…
Overwhelming crowd welcome Buhari to Borno
A massive crowd of cheering supporters mobbed Nigerian opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari in the embattled northeast city of Maiduguri on…
Insurgency: Borno Deputy Gov. commends security agencies
The Deputy Governor of Borno, Alhaji Zannah Mustapha, on Sunday commended the efforts of military and other security agencies to…
Biu blast: Borno Govt to pay victims’ medical bills
The Borno Government said it would shoulder the medical bills of all the 20 persons injured in Thursday’s suicide bomb…