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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.

“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.

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.

“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.

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.

It was last hit by a bomb at the end of July and there was a skirmish with suspected Boko Haram militants on the outskirts of the city in mid-August.

The Nigerian Army has announced a restriction of movement in Borno State during the Eid El Kabir celebrations.

Maiduguri: At least 54 people were killed and 90 wounded in a multiple bomb attack in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri in Borno state yesterday evening, a police spokesman said today.

Maiduguri-The Borno State police command yesterday confirmed that 54 people were killed and 95 critically injured in multiple explosions that rocked the suburb of Maiduguri, around Ajilari, Bintu sugar and Gomari Airport general areas by suspected terrorists.