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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.

The Nigerian Army on Wednesday released 128 detainees after certifying that they had no link with the Boko Haram terrorists group in Borno.

Those 68 casualties came from Baanu village on Friday night while locals said another 11 people were shot in Karnuwa and Hambagda on Saturday and Sunday.

Just on Friday they killed fifty-six people in Baanu village of Nganzai local government.

Buhari, who was represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, said that legislation, huge finance, and confidence in the electoral system were required before Diaspora voting can commence.

A disjointed campaign by Nigeria, Chad and Niger swept Boko Haram out of the towns of northeast Nigeria earlier this year but the group, which has sworn allegiance to Islamic State, has killed hundreds of people in the last three months in those three countries, as well as...

“Boko Haram, in just matter of days, we will end their activities… very soon God’s willing”, he said.

Two Nigerian soldiers were killed and two others injured as a landmine suspected to have been buried by Boko Haram detonated in the volatile Borno State, northeast Nigeria, military authorities said Friday.

However, the statement said the Nigerian Military on Friday lost two soldiers to the terrorists in Marte local government area of Borno, while two others were critically injured.

The attack reportedly took the lives of more than 40 people and injured dozens more in a crowded market in the town of Sabon Gari.

Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention.

“The global media reported that I am dead or I am sick and have lost influence in the affairs of religion”, Xinhua quoted the self-claimed Shekau as saying in the eight-minute Hausa-language recording. “And I will not die until my time appointed by Allah is...

Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau has refuted recent media reports of his death or replacement in an audio message.

Buhari expressed his government’s determination to fight against Boko Haram, defend and restore territorial integrity of Nigeria, protect the lives and property of Nigerians.

Nigerian troops have rescued 178 people from Boko Haram in attacks that destroyed several of the Islamic extremist group’s camps in the north east, according to the army.