Tag: Potiskum
Two female suicide bombers kill four in Potiskum
Two explosions ripped through a crowded mobile phone market in the northeast Nigerian city of Potiskum on Sunday, residents said,…
Car explosion kills two at Potiskum police station
At least two people were killed when a car exploded at a police station in Potiskum, northeast Nigeria, an officer…
16 men arrested by Nigeria soldiers ‘found dead with bullet wounds’
Sixteen men who were arrested by Nigerian soldiers in the country’s northeast were found dead just hours later with bullet…
Boko Haram fears reason for low key Eid celebration
Muslims in Nigeria’s northeast marked a fearful, low key Eid-El-Kabir festival Saturday, as the military detained alleged Boko Haram Islamist…
57 Boko Haram members arrested
The Nigerian military in Yobe state arrested dozens of suspected Boko Haram militants who had allegedly sneaked into the state…
Two killed, many injured, during UEFA match in Yobe
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram Islamists stormed a packed viewing centre in Potiskum, Yobe state and shot dead two…
Nigeria: Overloaded bus crashes, killing 20
A speeding and overloaded bus crashed into a truck parked by a road in northern Nigeria on Monday, killing 20…
3 Doctors slain in northern Nigeria are North Koreans
Men armed with knives slit the throats of three North Korean doctors in a pre-dawn attack Sunday in the volatile…
14 die, 4 injured in burning bus
Fourteen Nigerians were killed on Wednesday and four others were seriously injured when their bus crashed into a truck and…
Nigeria: Pastor, 5 worshippers murdered Christmas eve
Pope Benedict XV1 wishes the savage attacks against Nigerian Christians and churches come to an end, but the savagery continues…
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…
Boko Haram: Panicky Potiskum residents flee
Hundreds of residents of Potiskum, capital of Nigeria’s Yobe state were fleeing Sunday after three days of Islamist attacks that…
Ex-Customs chief, son and family of ASP killed
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed seven people in Potiskum, Yobe state Saturday, taking the death toll to at least 30…
Heavy Bombing in Potiskum
Heavy explosions and gunfire rocked Potiskum, the Yobe state capital Wednesday, residents said, after violence this week left at least…
Curfew slammed on Damaturu, Potiskum
Soldiers of the task force in Nigeria’s Yobe state have conducted door-to-door searches in Damaturu, capital of Yobe and Potiskum,…