Village market bomb kills 24, wounds 60 in northeast Nigeria

“It was a bloody attack by a female suicide bomber and apart from the over 40 people who were killed, many sustained injuries”, he said.

While the girls have been largely forgotten overseas, in Nigeria the topic is still emotive, but to his credit Mr Buhari has been pragmatic – the government simply doesn’t know where the girls are, he says. The previous organization, drove by his forerunner Goodluck Jonathan, had relied on upon remote arms suppliers, as indicated by Reuters.

He said the eight claimed they were exhausted of killing innocent souls.

Based to a great extent in the ungoverned, and ungovernable, Sambisa timberland, 23,000 square miles of open forest and thick clean in the northern Borno state, Boko Haram’s nearsighted perspective of the world does not regard worldwide outskirts, and neighboring Cameroon and Chad have additionally endured assaults, bombings and kidnappings.

Boko Haram’s alliance with IS may be motivating young Nigerians to join the Middle Eastern group, reports the BBC’s Bashir Sa’ad Abdullahi from Nigeria’s capital Abuja.

The victims had been travelling to Biu from Damboa, which troops liberated from a nine-month occupation by Boko Haram in April, the vigilantes said.

Boko Haram’s brutality and in specific the mass kidnapping and enslavement of schoolgirls has shocked world opinion, however Nigeria’s personal safety forces additionally face criticism.

Another member of the youth vigilance group in Sabon Gari, Yusuf Musa, told our correspondent on phone that 20 corpses were picked after the bomb attack at the town’s market.

Presido Yenabo said the rifles the police caught him with were stolen from the camp of Boko Haram insurgents.