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The army also said 17 Boko Haram fighters died in the fighting following the pre-dawn strike.

Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect struck in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, late Thursday, killing an unspecified number of people.

No group has said it carried out the attacks yet but suspicion has fallen on Boko Haram Islamists.

“Kuje 13 lost their lives and 20 injured”, the agency said. They have been trying to carve out an Islamist state, killing thousands of people and displacing more than two million others.

The Kuje and Nyanya suburbs of Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, were yesterday night rocked by a series of bomb blasts, a year after they’d had relative peace from bomb explosions.

Four militants detonated explosive vests simultaneously, he said.

John Chukwu, has condemned the twin suicide bomb blasts in Kuje, a suburb of Abuja late Friday.

The attacks targeted the Ajilari Cross evening market area and neighbouring Gomari, hitting worshippers at a mosque and football fans watching a televised match.

The source also disclosed that people were surprised to discover that the bombers were actually males dressed like females after security came to the scene.

This was disclosed Wednesday in a statement signed by the Deputy Director of Army Public Relations (DAPR), 7Div Maiduguri, Col. Tukur Gusau.

The federal government has insisted that it is winning the war against Boko Haram despite all challenges and campaign of calumny by the fifth columnists. Since 2002, Boko Haram has caused over 10,000 deaths and the displacement of over 1.5 million people from the Northern states.

“Today September 27, 22015, suspected Boko Haram terrorists attacked Mailari village in Konduga LGA”. The United States also continues to provide advisors and share information with our regional partners to enhance counter-Boko Haram operations, as well as victim...

The Nigerian Army says no fewer than 200 suspected Boko Haram terrorists surrendered to troops that overran them on the Bama-Banki axis of Borno State.

“All movements using vehicles, bicycles and animals like horses, camels, and donkeys in Maiduguri will be restricted as from Wednesday 5:00pm (1700hrs) 23 September 2015”, the message also stated. People consider the curfew as a kind of postponement of the celebration.

Suspected Boko Haram extremists killed at least 54 people when they detonated explosive devices in crowded places in Maiduguri, the capital of the north-eastern state of Borno, Nigerian police said.