maiduguri blast

A mob on Monday attacked officials of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, who were on a rescue mission at the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Maiduguri. The incident occurred at Londonciki-Simari area of Maiduguri, where a female suicide bomber attacked a mosque killing eight...

Three suspected suicide bombers have died in an explosion which took place along Damboa Road, Maiduguri, Borno state. National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the blast occurred in the early hours of Friday. Three petrol tankers were said to have been destroyed by the explosion, NEMA...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has expressed shock over the early morning bomb blast at the University of Maiduguri Mosque. The union had suspended a press conference it had planned to hold after the meeting of its National Executive Council in Kano as a result of the...

Two deafening explosions on Sunday morning occurred in a crowded area near Maiduguri’s main market, witnesses and officials have said. The two blasts occurred in quick succession at about 8:48 a.m. The Police public relations officer, Victor Isuku, confirmed the blasts which he said was...

No fewer than six persons were killed early today as two suicide bombers struck in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state and the heart of a seven-year-old insurgency by Islamist Boko Haram militants. Residents saw bodies being carried into an ambulance by government emergency services. See first...