Maiduguri, Nigeria News

Suspected Islamist militants opened fire on a school in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, killing nine students, witnesses and a medical worker said, the second deadly attack on schools in three days.

A tropical depression has formed off the coast of Belize and forecasters say it is expected to bring as much as five inches of rain to parts of Belize, Guatemala, northern Honduras and southern Mexico.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Eleven people were killed when suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram attacked a school in the northeastern town of Damaturu.

Borno State Government has faulted the Federal Government's Gross Empowerment Scheme, GES, involving electronic fertilizer sales due to lack of telecommunications, which is a major component of the scheme.

Garuta also told newsmen in Maiduguri, Bama road Motor Park yesterday that after torching another church in Hwa'a community, the gunmen also killed Rev.

A 60-YEAR old businessman who alleged that his son was inducted into the Boko Haram sect and has killed several people in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has handed over the child to men of the Joint Task Force in Hausari ward, requesting that he be killed.

Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees, is an old war horse in politics.

A MONTH after the Military Special Operations Force was deployed to combat Boko Haram insurgents in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, violence has erupted again in Borno, as gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamist terrorist's sect, Thursday, attacked four communities of Hwa'a, Kunde, Gathahure and Gjigga of Gwoza Hills settlements, torching ... (more)

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - At the Ali Al Yaskari primary school, the classrooms are silent.

BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI The Managing Director of Chad Basin Development Authority , Dr Garba Abubakar Iliya has alerted Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state on the sacking of 19, 000 farmers from their wheat and rice fields by the armed Boko Haram insurgents; while harvesting 5, 000 hectres of wheat under the South Chad Irrigation Scheme , ... (more)

The Islamic jihad against Christians in Nigeria is proving to be the most barbaric.

The Joint Task has released Hassana Yakubu, wife of the wanted leader of the Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau, sources close to the federal government's Dialogue and Amnesty Committee told Daily Trust yesterday.

About 104 suspected members of the Boko Haram sect, currently being held at the Kirikiri Minimum and Maximum prisons, Lagos, might soon be released.

As soldiers continue an offensive against radical Islamic extremists in northeast Nigeria, young men armed with machetes and sticks have now entered the streets of the region's biggest city, targeting suspected fighters.

IN a joint action, the military Joint Task Force and youth associations in Hausari, Fezzan and Bulabulin Gwange areas of Maiduguri have arrested 30 suspected Boko Haram members in various parts of the metropolis.

With mobile phone signals shut down since 15 May in large parts of three northeastern states following a military offensive against Boko Haram Islamists, anxious residents say the sick are cut off from medical help, commercial supplies are dwindling and food prices rising.

At least 10 people have been wounded in two separate attacks in Kenya, police say, including a blast at a church in Mombasa and a grenade hurled in a crowd in Nairobi.

Soldiers stand during a parade in Baga village on the outskirts of Maiduguri, in the north-eastern state of Borno May 13, 2013.

At least 16 suspected Boko Haram members were killed in separate incidents by security personnel in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital in the last 48 hours; while the sect's members allegedly shot dead 13 civilians in the troubled city, sources said.

Abuja, June 10: At least 19 people have been killed in a renewed attack by insurgent group in Nigeria's Maidiguri city, local residents and military sources said Sunday.