Boko Haram Unleash Deadly Attacks In Borno State, Dozens Dead

At least six civilians and six members of a youth vigilante group were killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants on Nigeria’s northeastern city Maiduguri, two military sources said on Thursday.

Another 20 were killed in a blast near a mosque early on Monday, said Muhammed Kanar, area coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency.

Police also said that a bomb targeting a mosque in the city also killed at least 20 more people.

Another eyewitness who simply identified himself as Mallam Ahmad Buba said that two female suicide bombers aged between 10 and 15 detonated bombs at a garage at Madagali on Monday morning.

In their quest to create an independent Islamic state, the insurgents have been carrying out deadly cross-border raids in neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Niger, fuelling fears that the hardline Muslim movement is growing into a regional jihadist threat.

Boko Haram, an extremist militant group that has pledged allegiance to ISIS, has been waging attacks in Nigeria since 2009, including the 2014 abduction of more than 270 girls from a school in the town of Chibok, also in the state of Borno.

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The army has retaken many areas previously controlled by Boko Haram in the northern region where normalcy is returning with students going back to schools, burned houses being built, markets being reconstructed and hustling and bustling taking place.

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described Sunday and Monday’s Boko Haram attacks in Borno and Adamawa States as disheartening and an indictment on the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government. When people gathered, she detonated her explosives, according to a village official, Bulama Isa. Among the victims was the family of a local chief in Dawari village near Jiddari Polo who were killed by a rocket-propelled grenade understood to have been fired by Boko Haram fighters.

Later on, three suicide bombers reportedly blew themselves up at a home near Bakassi Estate, killing at least 18 people, another soldier told the Associated Press. Like the nurse, he spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to reporters.

It had been reduced to fighting with improvised explosives devices (IED), he said.

According to Brigade Commander, 28 Task Force Brigade, Brigadier General Victor Ezugu, those injured were evacuated to the 143 Rangers Battalion military facility in Madagali and the general hospital in Mubi.

Talking about what the government is doing to secure the soft targets, the Minister said that ‘soft targets are the most hard to defend in the whole world.