Boko Haram militants armed with explosives and guns attacked several churches in Borno state near Chibok, slaughtering “dozens” of men, women, and children, and burning at least three churches to the ground. The governor of Lagos state urged vigilance following a recent car bombing in Apapa. A witness to the June 27 bombing at a Bauchi hotel said the attackers wore military uniforms. A Bayelsa state commissioner said kidnappers who abducted his elderly mother as she returned from a church vigil have threatened to cut off her head. Raiding “Fulani” militiamen in Kaduna state have killed over 200 people and ransacked and razed a number of villages over the past week.
