Tag Archives: Damaturu

Nigeria: A Space at the Mortuary…By Olusegun Adeniyi

May 18, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Olusegun Adeniyi If there is any development that depicts the state of affairs in our country today, it is what happened last week following the coordinated attacks by Boko Haram on police, army and prison formations in Bama, Borno … read more »

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Nigeria: Gunmen burn Police Station, School, and phone towers

November 4, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Kano – Gunmen with explosives attacked a police station, a primary school and two cellphone towers in a town in Nigeria’s restive northeast early on Sunday and set them ablaze, the military and residents said. “We heard that there were … read more »

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Nigerian military says 35 Islamists killed in crackdown

September 24, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

KANO, Nigeria — Nigeria’s military said Monday it has killed 35 suspected Boko Haram Islamists in a crackdown on the insurgent group in the northeastern city of Damaturu. “The Joint Task Force has succeeded in killing 35 Boko Haram terrorists … read more »

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Suicide bomber Killed one, wounded 46 at Nigeria Catholic church

September 23, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

BAUCHI, Nigeria – A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church conducting Mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing one person and wounding another 46 in a region under assault by a radical Islamist sect, officials said. An Associated Press … read more »

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Suicide bomb kills 6 soldiers, 2 civilians in northern Nigeria

August 5, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Police authority have confirmed that six soldiers and two civilians died during a suicide bomb attack Sunday on a military post in the Nigeria northeast city of Damaturu by suspected Boko Haram bomber. Yobe state commissioner of police Patrick Egbuniwe … read more »

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Nigeria: Police post storm by Gunmen

July 16, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

KANO, Nigeria — Suspected members of radical Islamist group Boko Haram attacked a police building in restive northern Nigeria on Monday but the assault was repelled, a police spokesman said. Boko Haram Islamists have carried out waves of such attacks … read more »

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Fresh Explosions, gunfire rock Northern Nigeria

July 6, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Explosions and gunfire rocked Nigeria’s restive northeastern city of Damaturu on Friday, police said, in an area plagued by repeated attacks by Boko Haram Islamists. “There have been huge explosions and sporadic gunfire around (the) Shagari Low Cost area of … read more »

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Gunmen ‘massacre’ nine workers in northern Nigeria

July 2, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

ABUJA — Attackers killed nine construction workers early Monday in the restive northeastern city of Maiduguri, the base of the Islamist Boko Haram sect, the army said. The victims, working at Shehu of Borno’s Central Mosque in the city, were … read more »

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Gunmen with explosives attack two police stations in Nigeria

June 26, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Gunmen with explosives attacked two police stations Tuesday in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, previously a target of major violence by Islamist group Boko Haram, police and residents said. Meanwhile, residents reported gunfire and blasts around another police station … read more »

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Nigerian president Goodluck vows to ‘deal’ with Islamist sect

June 25, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

ABUJA — Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday vowed to “decisively deal” with members of Islamist sect Boko Haram which has pressed on with attacks that have claimed hundreds of lives. “A faceless group of enemies of our democracy and … read more »

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Nigeria: Boko Haram frees 40 in prison break

June 24, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

LAGOS: Nigeria’s rebel sect Boko Haram stormed a prison in their northeastern heartland on Sunday, freeing 40 inmates, police said, in the latest of a string of attacks blamed on the group. “There was an attack on the Yobe prison … read more »

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Nigerian ‘Islamists’ killed in explosion

March 3, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Kano – Three suspected members of the Boko Haram sect were killed while assembling bombs in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, considered the group’s stronghold, an army spokesperson said on Saturday. The explosion in the Kaleri suburb of the northern … read more »

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Suspected Nigeria Islamists kill five in north

January 16, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Gunmen shot dead five people in their homes in two northern Nigerian cities on Monday, security forces said, the latest in a string of deadly attacks by suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect. “Two people have been shot … read more »

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Nigeria state of emergency toll now 3

January 4, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Maiduguri – Police say three people were killed in attacks by a feared sect despite a state of emergency in areas of northeast Nigeria. Borno state police chief Simeone Midenda said on Wednesday that two suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot … read more »

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Nigerian violence threatens to ignite wider Muslim-Christian conflict

December 31, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

(CNN) — There are ominous signs in Nigeria that the campaign of violence by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram is leading to wider and more explosive sectarian tensions — in a country where Christian-Muslim relations are often tense and … read more »

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Explosion in northeast Nigeria kills 4

December 30, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

Kano – An explosion killed four people in the violence-torn city Nigerian city of Maiduguri as Muslim faithful left a mosque after Friday prayers, the military and residents said. The blast comes after a series of Christmas attacks blamed on … read more »

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15 hurt in attack on Nigeria hotel

December 29, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

Kano – Gunmen threw explosives at a hotel and open-air bar in northeastern Nigeria, wounding 15 people, an employee and police said Thursday, the latest in a spate of attacks blamed on Islamists. The attack in the city of Gombe … read more »

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Nigeria Christians vow to defend themselves

December 29, 2011 by benim

Abuja – Nigerian Christians vowed on Wednesday to defend themselves after a string of attacks blamed on Islamists as the bombing of an Arabic school raised fears of reprisals. Police said attackers threw a “low-capacity” bomb into an Arabic school … read more »

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Get Your Ex Boyfriend Back

December 28, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

Kano – Deadly clashes between Islamists and securi Get Your Ex Boyfriend Back ty forces last week have displaced an estimated 90 000 people in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu, an emergency official said on Wednesday. “We have at … read more »

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Nigeria Security Strategy A ‘Failure,’ Says Scholar

December 27, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

A Nigerian scholar says the government is failing its fundamental duty to protect citizens following the Christmas day bombings that killed at least 35 people and injured many. The radical Muslim sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attacks. … read more »

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Witnesses: 4 Nigerian Security Agents Killed in Blast

December 23, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

Witnesses say four security agents were killed in northeast Nigeria in a roadside bomb explosion. Reports say the bomb went off Thursday afternoon in the northern city of Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state. A local police officer said security … read more »

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Nigeria’s Boko Haram claim bombings

November 28, 2011 by benim

Kano – Nigeria’s Islamist Boko Haram sect was responsible for a string of weekend bombings targeting government buildings and churches in Geidam in the northeast, its purported spokesperson said on Monday. Abul Qaqa, who claims to speak for Boko Haram, … read more »

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Islamists bomb police station in Nigeria

November 27, 2011 by benim

Kano – Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram have bombed a police station, a bank and a beer parlour in Nigeria’s northeastern Yobe state, residents say. The gunmen threw explosives into a police station and … read more »

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Bomb targets police vehicle in Nigeria

November 15, 2011 by benim

Maiduguri – A bomb targeting a police vehicle in a governor’s motorcade and two other blasts rocked the volatile Nigerian city of Maiduguri, but no casualties were reported, police and residents said on Tuesday. The blast involving the motorcade of … read more »

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Algeria says Nigeria’s Boko Haram tied to al Qaeda

November 14, 2011 by benim

Intelligence reports show there is coordination between the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram and the Algerian-based north African branch of al Qaeda, the Algerian deputy foreign minister said on Sunday. Boko Haram has killed dozens of people in Nigeria, and … read more »

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Nigeria arrests Boko Haram militants

November 9, 2011 by benim

Abuja – Nigeria’s police said on Tuesday they had arrested suspected members of an Islamist sect behind coordinated attacks in the north of the country that killed at least 65 people late last week. Militants Boko Haram said they had … read more »

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Residents flee northeast Nigerian city

November 8, 2011 by benim

Maiduguri – Residents have begun to flee a northeast Nigerian city where a radical Muslim sect launched attacks that killed more than 100 people. Rev Idi Garba said on Tuesday that nearly all the Christians and non-natives of Yobe state … read more »

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Nigerians claim Islamist attack bodies

November 7, 2011 by benim

Damaturu – Wearing face masks and gloves, six relatives carefully lifted the bloated bodies of two stonemasons from the floor of a morgue and lowered them into white wooden coffins. The remains of Abu Garba, 32, and Abbas Kusa, 40, … read more »

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Nigeria’s Boko Haram threatens more deadly attacks

November 6, 2011 by benim

Nigeria’s Boko Haram has threatened to carry out more attacks, a day after a series of blasts and gun battles claimed by the group killed at least 69 people in the West African nation’s northeast. The group’s spokesman, using the nom de guerre … read more »

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At least 69 dead in north Nigeria sect attacks

November 5, 2011 by benim

LAGOS, Nigeria — Residents fearfully left their homes Saturday to bury their dead in northeast Nigeria following a series of coordinated attacks that killed at least 69 people and left a new police headquarters in ruins, government offices burned and … read more »

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