A suicide bomber intending to detonate at a soccer match viewing center in Jos died along with two other people when his car blew up on the way; phone signals suggested the bomber was directed from Niger. A Borno state elders’ forum said the military’s failure to properly equip, deploy, and pay soldiers has enabled the Boko Haram insurgency to prevail. MASSOB, a Biafran secessionist movement, warned it had discovered a Boko Haram plot to target Onitsha Market in Anambra state; the local police commissioner dismissed it as rumor-mongering.
