Tag: Maiduguri
North-eastern Nigeria “a humanitarian tragedy†– UN
An upsurge in violence in north-east Nigeria which was brought to global attention five years ago with the abduction by Boko Haram extremists of...
Maiduguri attack leaves 15 dead
Suspected members of the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency killed at least 15 people in an attack on villages in north-east Nigeria, residents...
Protesting Nigerian soldiers fire into the air
Nigerian troops staging a protest at the airport in Maiduguri shot into the air for around four hours, soldiers and local people...
Fifteen dead after suspect Boko Haram attack
A suspected Boko Haram attack in Nigerian city Maiduguri killed 15 people and wounded 68, an emergency agency official said, in the...
Suicide bombers strike in Maiduguri
Three suicide bombers killed 18 people in Maiduguri, capital of the state worst hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, its police commissioner...
Twelve killed and 48 injured in Maiduguri suicide bombings
Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 12 people and injured 48 others in an attack on the Nigerian city Maiduguri, officials from...
Ten dead in Maiduguri bomb attack
A suicide bomb attack killed 10 people and injured 30 others in the north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri, an emergency agency official...
Suicide bombers strike again in Maiduguri
Suspected suicide bombers killed at least 12 people and injured 26 in Nigeria's Borno State, epicentre of the Islamist militant Boko Haram...
Cholera in north-east Nigeria
Cholera has broken out in north-east Nigeria at a camp for people displaced by the eight year conflict with Boko Haram, aid...
Suicide bombers kill at least 27 in Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers killed at least 27 people and wounded 83 in north-east Nigeria on Tuesday.
A woman bomber blew herself...
Suicide bomber claims eight victims in Maiduguri
A female suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded 18 at a mosque in north-eastern Nigeria, an area regularly attacked by Boko...
Nigeria suicide bombers must be held accountable – Guterres
Condemning violent attacks in Maiduguri, in Nigeria's restive Borno state, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres underscored the world body's resolve to support...
Nine dead in Maiduguri suicide bombings
Suicide bombers killed nine people and wounded 13 others in multiple blasts in north-east Nigeria's Maiduguri, police said, the latest attack in...
Boko Haram claims responsibility for Maiduguri attack
Islamist insurgency Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attack on Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri last week that killed at least 14...
Biggest Boko Haram raid on Maiduguri in 18 months
Boko Haram insurgents launched their biggest attack on the north-east Nigerian city Maiduguri in 18 months on Wednesday, the eve of a...
Acting Nigerian president in Maiduguri after attack
Nigeria's acting president is visiting the north-eastern city of Maiduguri after an attack by Boko Haram jihadists which killed 14 people and...
Fourteen dead in Maiduguri attack
An attack by Boko Haram jihadists on the northern Nigerian city Maiduguri killed 14 people, police said in the first official toll.
The...
Major attack launched on Nigerian city
Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked Maiduguri in north-east Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant group's most serious assault on the regional capital...
Blasts kill four, injure 18 in north-eastern Nigeria
Multiple blasts killed four people and injured eight others in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the state police commissioner said.
Borno...
Suicide bombers kill two in Nigeria’s Maiduguri
Four female teenage suicide bombers killed two people and injured 16 others in a residential area in the north-east Nigerian city of...
Would-be suicide bomber killed in Nigeria
Security guards shot and killed a man trying to detonate a bomb at a camp in north-eastern Nigeria for people displaced during...
Suicide bombers kill at least eight in Maiduguri
Two suicide bombers killed at least eight people on Saturday in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the heart of a seven-year-old...
Deaths reported after car bomb explosion in Maiduguri
About eight people were killed and 15 wounded when a car laden with explosives hit a taxi in north-eastern Borno state's capital...
About eight people killed by car bomb in Maiduguri
About eight people were killed and 15 wounded when a car laden with explosives hit a taxi in north-eastern Borno state's capital...
At least 65 killed in attack in Nigeria’s Maiduguri
At least 65 people were killed during an attack by Islamist militant group Boko Haram near Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri, a...
Three blasts in Nigerian city of Maiduguri
Three blasts struck the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a military spokesman said on Sunday, a day after a new audio message...
At least 6 killed in Boko Haram attack near Nigeria’s Maiduguri
At least six people have been killed during a raid by Boko Haram militants outside Nigeria's northeastern city Maiduguri in Borno state,...
Bombers attack Maiduguri while vice president visits
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a hospital in Maiduguri in north-east Nigeria on Wednesday, shortly after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo...
Bomb blast hits market in Nigeria’s Maiduguri, 50 killed
A bomb blast at a busy meat market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday killed about 50 people, an...
Suspected Boko Haram militants attack Nigeria’s Maiduguri
Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri in Borno state on Wednesday from a cashew plantation a few kilometres...
Three bombs hit Nigerian city of Maiduguri
Three explosions hit the northeastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri on Saturday in the worst attacks there since suspected Islamist militants tried to...
Islamists attack military bases in northeast Nigeria
Nigerian authorities imposed a 24-hour curfew in the main northeastern city of Maiduguri on Monday after Islamist militants attacked an air force...
Nigerian Islamist sect kills 3 policemen – police
Members of a radical Nigerian Islamist sect shot dead three policemen and a civilian after breaking into the house of one of...
