Tag: Maiduguri
4 Boko Haram suspects killed, 3 Arrested in raids
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order said on Saturday that it had killed four and arrested three…
2 Boko Haram commanders killed, 8 members arrested
Nigerian soldiers in the special anti-terrorist force in Maiduguri, Borno State said Thursday they killed two senior commanders of Islamist…
7 Boko Haram terrorists killed in gun battle
Suspected members of Boko Haram ,the Islamist extremist group and Nigerian soldiers exchanged gun fire in a battle in Maiduguri…
JTF Recovers Guns, Bullets From Boko Haram Commander
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said on Monday that it had recovered arms and ammunition…
5 Boko Haram suspects killed in attack on troops
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said on Saturday that it killed five suspected terrorists after…
Disaster averted as bomb laden car arrested
Nigeria’s Borno Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said on Tuesday that it had intercepted a bomb-laden…
20 Boko Haram members shot dead
Twenty suspected Boko Haram militants in Maiduguri,have been killed by Nigerian soldiers in a shootout. But the army lost one…
Peace elusive as banker shot dead in Maiduguri
Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria’s Borno state continues to cement its status as the killing capital of Nigeria, with the gruesome…
Nigerian troops in massive arrests of terror suspects
Explosions rocked parts of the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri Saturday as troops engaged suspected Islamic radicals and raided homes,…
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…
26 Boko Haram members arrested, 2 killed in raid
Nigerian soldiers have arrested 26 alleged members of Islamist group Boko Haram and killed two others in a raid after…
2 Indians shot dead in Nigeria
Suspected members of Islamist group Boko Haram attacked a gum arabic factory in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria on Wednesday, killing two…
Gunmen kill 5 persons in Kano, Maiduguri
Gunmen on Thursday shot dead at least five people, including a policeman, in two separate attacks in northern Nigeria, the…
9 workers slaughtered in Maiduguri
Nine Nigerian construction workers were killed early Monday in the restive northeastern city of Maiduguri, the base of the Islamist…
Nigerian Suicide bomber kills 5
A suicide blast at the police headquarters in Nigeria’s restive city of Maiduguri on Friday killed at least one police…
Bomb Kills Man In Maiduguri
A bomb killed one person early Friday in the northern city of Maiduguri where Islamist sect Boko Haram has carried…
Nigerian forces kill 16 Boko Haram members
Nigerian soldiers have killed at least 16 militants, the army said Wednesday in Maiduguri, after gunfire and blasts rocked an…
15 die in gruesome road accident in Nigeria
Fifteen persons on Thursday died while 6 others were injured when a commercial bus collided with a car on Maiduguri-Damaturu road, in Nigeria’s northeast…
Army arrests 2 Boko Haram members, kills 1
Soldiers in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed a suspected member of the Boko Haram Islamist sect and wounded…
13 Boko Haram members arrested, one killed
Nigerian soldiers killed one suspected member of the Islamist Boko Haram sect and arrested 13 others in dawn raids Tuesday…
Gunmen Kill Police Inspector In Maiduguri
Suspected Boko Haram militants on Wednesday killed a police inspector while shopping at the Gamboru market in Maiduguri. The name…
Boko Haram storms prison, police station
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have attacked a prison, police station and local government office in Konduga, forty kilometres from Maiduguri,…
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…
Boko Haram Destroys 3 Schools In Borno
Suspected Boko Haram sect members destroyed three more schools on Wednesday night in an ongoing assault on schools in Maiduguri,…
Boko Haram: Many killed in Maiduguri market
Suspected Boko Haram militants opened fire and set off bombs at a market in the Nigerian northeastern city of Maiduguri…
Boko Haram still unrelenting as bombs explode in city
Two explosions went off Friday outside a customs building in Nigeria’s flashpoint city of Maiduguri, the base of Boko Haram…
Police station stormed in Kano, bomb blasts in Maiduguri
Gunmen and bombers, suspected to be militants of the Boko Haram sect have burnt down Sharada police station in Nigeria’s…
Police Kill 4 Boko Haram Suspects
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO), says four suspected Boko Haram members believed to have been…
Labour Shelves Street Protest In Maiduguri
The NLC said on Monday in Maiduguri that it had shelved street protest in the ongoing fuel subsidy strike following…
Jonathan slams emergency rule in Boko Haram’s areas
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja After two days of feverish meetings with his security chiefs following the Christmas Day bombings of a Catholic…