Tag: latest attack
Boko Haram attacks village near Chibok
Suspected Boko Haram militants stormed a village in northeast Nigeria on Saturday, killing several people and torching houses near where…
Boko Haram seizes Nigeria’s border town
Scores of Boko Haram gunmen riding in armoured vehicles razed the Nigerian border town of Gamboru Ngala on Monday and…
Boko Haram terrorists strike in Jigawa state, kill 7 cops, one civilian
Scores of Islamist gunmen attacked a police station, a court and a bank in Jigawa state, northern Nigeria on Wednesday,…
Boko Haram kill 29 after giving notice of attack
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents killed 29 people in Nigeria’s embattled Borno state, even after giving notice of the attack to…
Boko Haram militants open fire on sleeping students
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on Tuesday opened fire on secondary school students as they slept in a dormitory in Nigeria’s…
9 sleeping kids, 4 others killed by gunmen in Plateau state
Nine children, and four adults were killed by gunmen early today, the latest casualties of the incessant violence in Plateau…
Boko Haram gunmen kill teacher
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead a teacher in a northeast Nigerian village on the border with Chad, police and…
20 soldiers, 2 copters destroyed in worst Boko Haram strike
Reports filtering out of the beleaguered Nigerian city, Maiduguri, have it that over 20 security operatives may have been killed…
Two killed after Boko Haram militants bomb police station
Gunmen with explosives and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a police station in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing two officers and injuring another…
Boko Haram gunmen on motor bike kill 2
A girl and a policeman were killed in an attack in Darazo, Bauchi state, in northwest Nigeria Monday which the…
2 Nigerian soldiers killed by gunmen
By Femi Adi/Kaduna In a fresh attack, gunmen have killed two soldiers and at least three villagers at Kwasakwasa village…
Gunmen attack Nigerian village
The state of lawlessness in Nigeria appears unending with another reported attack by gunmen on residents of Atakar chiefdom in…
Bank robbed, 5 cops killed in ‘Boko Haram’ attack
The Commissioner of Police in the Nigerian north eastern state of Yobe, Alhaji Sanusi Rufai, said that five policemen and…
Gunmen attack Nigerian police station
Gunmen with explosives attacked a police station outside northern Nigeria’s restive largest city of Kano, killing a policeman and a…
18 massacred inside Nigerian market
Gunmen believed to be from Islamist extremist group Boko Haram have opened fire at a market in Damboa, Borno state…
DPO, 3 Boko Haram members die in shootout
A policeman and at least three suspected Boko Haram gunmen died Monday following an early morning bombing and shooting raid…
4 die in gun battle near Nigerian mosque
A gun battle near a mosque in the Nigerian city of Kano and two other shootings left at least eight…
Boy dies in latest Jos attack
An assailant on Tuesday fired a heavy weapon at an Islamic school in the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing…
Nigeria: 5 Die as Patrol Van Ambushed
Gunmen opened fire and threw explosives at a military and police patrol in northeast Nigeria, killing a policeman, a soldier…