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The ministry reportedly said the suspect was arrested at a checkpoint in the city of Gombe, close to Boko Haram’s stronghold in the northeast. While the group has not yet commented on the bombings, they follow a week of carnage across northern Nigeria – proof that the...

On Friday, the military said six women suicide bombers caused explosions that killed scores of people including a soldier at Zabamari Muna village outside Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeast Nigeria and the birthplace of Boko Haram.

It was also reported that a fighter jet came to Damaturu, hovering round the town for some minutes before moving southwards towards the troubled Buni-Yadi. It was not clear if fighting was continuing in the area.

The children were swept up in raids by the army on Koranic schools but had not been charged with any offense, said Amnesty worldwide. He said his government was working towards nabbing terrorists.

Witnesses and government officials have blamed last week’s attacks on Boko Haram, the terror group that has been fighting the Nigerian government for more than a decade, pushing to bring an extreme version of Islamic law, or Sharia, to the masses.

An eye-witness told NAN that some of the workers had tried to get the police to restrict the boy who was looking suspicious, before he detonated the bomb, which injured many others.

“We must also go to war for Allah”.

Boko Haram may be responding to an Islamic State group order to commit more mayhem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The assault – which passed off in Deffa province close to Nigeria, elements of whose northeast are underneath Boko Haram management – was the deadliest in Niger by the jihadist group since a raid in April killed 74 individuals.

According to survivors, a man dressed in white blew himself up at the Yantaya Mosque as cleric Sani Yahaya, the national chairman of the Jama’atu Izalatul Bidia organization, was addressing worshippers. Jos is located where Nigeria’s majority Muslim north and mainly...

Soldiers have said that some of their comrades also belong to Nigeria’s home-grown Islamic extremist group.

“El-Rufai, who suspended government activities to travel to Zaria on Tuesday, said:” I am sad that a terrorist bomb attack just killed 20 people in Sabongari, Zaria.

Suspected Boko Haram fighters blew themselves up during a police raid in Chad’s capital early on Monday, killing five officers and six militants, police and government officials said.

“So, if Boko Haram opts for negotiation, the government will not be averse to it”, he said.

N’DJAMENA: Chadian security forces killed six militants and lost five officers as they stormed an illegal arms cache east of the capital, the state prosecutor said on Monday. That attack by suspected Boko Haram militants on two police offices was the largest of its kind in Chad.