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By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, (AA): A commission of enquiry into clashes between the army and Nigeria’s Shia Muslim community was suspended Monday after the Islamic Movement shunned the proceedings. In December, violence in the northern state of Kaduna saw at least 300 of the movement’s supporters killed by troops, according to Human Rights Watch. […]

12th Feb 2016

Nigeria: 58 killed in bombings at Internally Displaced Persons camp

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, (AA): Tuesday’s suicide bombings at a displaced persons camp in Nigeria’s northeastern town of Dikwa killed 58 people and injured 78 others, Nigerian relief agency NEMA has said. “Suicide bombing suspected to be by Boko Haram killed 58, injured 78 in an IDP [Internally Displaced Persons] camp in Dikwa Borno […]

12th Feb 2016

Nigerian Shia Muslims reject ‘secret trials’

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, (AA): Nigeria’s Shia Muslim community has rejected what it calls a “secret trial” of 191 people detained over a Dec. 12 stand-off between protestors and the army. Human Rights Watch has estimated that at least 300 Shia were shot dead by troops during raids on the Islamic Movement’s headquarters. Shia […]

11th Feb 2016

Cameroon: Eleven killed in suicide attack in Nguetchewe

MAROUA, (AA): At least 11 people were killed after a female suicide bomber blew herself up in Cameroon’s northern city of Nguetchewe near the Nigerian border on Wednesday morning, local sources told Anadolu Agency. “Two suicide bombers visited a wake in Nguetchewe at around 5.30 a.m. (0400GMT),” Garba Audu, a traditional leader told Anadolu Agency, […]

1st Feb 2016

Nigeria: Children, among 85 killed in Dalori, Maiduguri, by Boko Haram

By Olarewaju Kola and Rafiu Ajakaye MAIDUGURI, (AA) – The death toll from a Boko Haram attack on the outskirts of a major city in northeast Nigeria has risen to 85, including eight children, witnesses and officials have told Anadolu Agency. The attack on Saturday evening saw scores of militants attack Dalori, a small […]

30th Jan 2016

Nigeria: Nine killed by teenage suicide bomber in Gombi

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, (AA) – At least nine people were killed Friday afternoon in a suicide bombing carried out by a teenage boy in northeast Nigeria, local officials and residents said. The blast in Gombi, a town in Adamawa state, happened in a busy market as locals headed to Friday prayers. “A teenage […]

29th Dec 2015

Nigeria: 17 killed in suicide attacks in Madagali

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, (AA): At least 17 people were killed in twin suicide attacks Monday at a motor park in Nigeria’s northeastern town of Madagali, according to the Adamawa state emergency management agency, which added that 41 others were injured and taken to hospital. “At the moment, we have 17 people dead with […]

18th Dec 2015

Nigeria: 49 Boko Haram killed in gun battles, says army

By Olarewaju Kola MAIDUGURI, (AA) – At least 49 Boko Haram militia have been killed in two days of sustained battle with Nigeria’s military in northeast Borno state, an army commander has said. Nigerian troops engaged Boko Haram fighters at two locations in shootout during an ambush in the volatile northeast region, Theatre Commander of […]

17th Dec 2015

Nigeria: Five suicide blasts rock Nigeria’s northeast

By Olanrewaju Kola LAGOS, (AA) – Five female bombers simultaneously attacked a security post manned by a government-backed vigilante group in northeastern Nigeria on Wednesday. One member of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and the five bombers died at Mafa, some 40 kilometers [25 miles] east of Maiduguri, Borno State’s provincial capital. Abdulkadir Ibrahim, […]

15th Dec 2015

Nigeria: Demand for probe into ‘massacre’ of Nigerian Shia Muslims

LAGOS, (AA): Rights groups in Nigeria on Monday called for an investigation into the alleged killing of dozens of Shia Muslims by the army, including senior members of the sect, over the weekend. On Saturday, the army opened fire on supporters of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria who tried to block a convoy carrying army […]

14th Dec 2015

Nigeria: Army kills 20 Shia Muslims, arrests Shia Muslim leader

LAGOS, (AA) – The Nigerian military has killed at least 20 Shia Muslims, including a senior Shia scholar, wife and son of head of Isalmic Movement. Sources say leader of the Movement, Sheikh Ibrahim al Zakzaky was arrested by the army. The Nigerian army had accused the country’s Islamic Movement, led by Shia scholar Ibrahim […]

13th Dec 2015

Nigeria: Shia Muslims killed by army, claims of ‘assassination attempt’

By Olarewaju Kola & Anadolu Agency staff LAGOS & MAIDUGURI, (AA): At least six people are thought to have been killed on Saturday in northern Nigeria, with the military claiming there was an attempted assassination of the country’s chief-of-staff. Between 10 to 30 Shia Muslims are believed to have been killed on Friday by the military. […]

28th Nov 2015

Nigeria: 21 killed in suicide bomb attack against Shia Muslims

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, (AA) – At least 21 people are feared dead and dozens more injured Friday afternoon as a suicide bomber attacked a large procession of Nigeria’s Shia members in the northwestern part of the country, according to an official of the religious movement. The attack occurred in Chiromawa, a village roughly 50 kilometers from […]

27th Nov 2015

Nigeria: Muslims hit out amid national-service hijab row

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, (AA) – Nigerian Muslims have rejected a ban on a ‘long hijab’ for female college graduates enrolling for national service. One Muslim group has described the decision by the government agency handling the recruitment as “discriminatory, baseless and unacceptable”. Graduates in Nigeria undertake a mandatory one-year period of national service. However, director-general […]

23rd Nov 2015

Nigeria: Suicide bombing in Maiduguri kills seven

LAGOS, (AA) – Seven people were killed when a suicide bomber targeted a center for displaced people in northern Nigeria on Sunday, local officials said. Another seven were injured in the attack in Maiduguri, according to a spokesman of a local vigilante group. “Eight persons including the bomber died while seven others were injured in Muna, […]

19th Nov 2015

Nigeria: Dozens feared dead in second suicide attack

LAGOS, (AA): Nigeria was hit by second wave of suicide bomb attacks Wednesday evening, officials said, less than 24 hours after the first attack. The blasts in state capital Kano came after 32 people were killed in the eastern town of Yola. Boko Haram militants are suspected in both attacks. Dozens were reported killed and injured as […]

24th Oct 2015

Nigeria: Another mosque blast in Borno state kills 27

MAIDUGURI, (AA): A bomb blast has hit a central mosque in Nigeria’s northeast Yola town, killing at least 27 persons and injuring 96 others, an official of the country’s relief agency has said. “A total of 27 people died while 96 others are receiving medical care at Federal Medical Centre Yola and Specialist Hospital Jimeta (both […]

17th Oct 2015

Nigeria: Suicide attacks target mosques, 14 dead

LAGOS, (AA): At least 14 people were killed in suspected suicide bomb attacks targeting two mosques in Nigeria’s northeast Borno State Thursday night, a police spokesman said on Friday morning. The attacks took place in the state’s Mulai suburb of Maiduguri. “There were twin suicide attacks yesterday night. One occurred inside a mosque and another […]

7th Oct 2015

Nigeria: Dozens killed in clashes between soldiers & Boko Haram

LAGOS (AA): At least nine soldiers and over 50 Boko Haram militants have died in heavy fighting in northeastern Nigeria, according to army sources speaking to Anadolu Agency. Insurgents attacked Goniri village in northeastern Yobe state in the early hours of Monday, a senior army source claimed. A brigadier-general, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: […]

4th Oct 2015

Nigeria: Bomb blasts kill 15 in Abuja

LAGOS, (AA): Multiple bomb blasts – including a suicide attack on a police station – have killed at least 15 people in Nigeria’s capital. A spokesman for the country’s NEMA relief agency said the Friday-night blasts in Nyanya and Kuje – outlying regions of Nigeria’s federal capital area – had also injured 41 people. He […]

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