Boko Haram Blamed for Nigerian Blast that Killed 32, Injured 80

Nobody took immediate responsibility for the attack, although it resembles previous attacks by Boko Haram.

The explosions broke a three-week hiatus in bombings after a series of suicide attacks culminated in twin blasts in mosques in two cities in the north-east that killed 42 people and wounded more than 100 on October 23. (The report didn’t include data from any 2015 attacks). In the same year, Human Rights Watch also documented a series of offenses including “murder, torture and rape” that amounted to “crimes against humanity”.

The government also accuses Dusaki of transferring $132 million to accounts in West Africa, Britain and the United States without explanation.

People walk past a damaged auto at the site of a bomb explosion in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Friday, July 31, 2015.

The blast, which is is the second attack in the country in the past 24 hours, killed 15 people and injured at least 123 in a mobile phone market in Kano just after 4pm yesterday (Nov 18), Kano state police commissioner Muhammad Musa Katsina said.

Buhari ordered the arrest of Dasuki, a key adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan from 2012, and other unnamed high-ranking officials mentioned in an interim report by a committee investigating arms procurement since 2007 that Buhari ordered after he took office in May. Seventy-eight percent of the attacks were concentrated in only five countries: Pakistan, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. Those attacks have been blamed on Boko Haram, which has pledged its loyalty to the Islamic State group.

The Nigerian army on Thursday denied media reports that some 105 soldiers in the northeastern Borno state went missing after an attack by Islamist group Boko Haram.

On Tuesday night at least 31 people were killed when a blast hit the city of Yola. In April 2014, militants abducted 267 schoolgirls in Chibok, a primarily Christian village. Of the 50 different terrorist groups that engaged in a terrorist act in 2014, 28 groups did not kill anyone, it said.

Based in Nigeria, Boko Haram killed 6,664 people in 2014, more than the No. 2 ranked terrorism organization, IS, which was responsible for 6,073 deaths.