Tag Archives: Nigeria

Boko Haram attacked security headquarters, churches, and mosques in coordinated attacks in Maiduguri, Damaturu, and Potiskum, killing scores of people. The terror group deployed suicide bombers during the attacks.

Boko Haram claimed credit for killing a journalist who worked for the government-owned Nigerian Television Authority. The terror group killed the journalist “because he was an informant of security agencies … He gave information to security agents that led to the arrest of many of our members.”

Four people were killed in a bombing at a police station in the state of Gombe in northern Nigeria. Boko Haram is suspected of carrying out the attack.

Customers at a tea shop, aided by police, killed two Boko Haram fighters after disarming them. Boko Haram killed two tea shop owners earlier in the week.

Police claimed to have arrested a “top commander” for Boko Haram and five fighters. A Christian extremist group known as Akhwat Akwop threatened to retaliate against Boko Haram attacks.

Boko Haram killed a lawyer and a government worker in an attack in Maiduguri. Police denied that 22 individuals arrested in Lagos are linked to Boko Haram.

The Niger Delta Liberation Force threatened to team up with security forces and attack Boko Haram if it moved into the Delta region. The FBI and Interpol are said to have joined the manhunt for UN headquarters bombing mastermind Mamman Nur.

The state security service offered a $160,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the mastermind behind a suicide bomb on UN headquarters in Abuja. Officials fear that Boko Haram will attack oil facilities.

Boko Haram released two videotapes of the suicide bomber who attacked the UN headquarters in Abuja. A relative of the slain former leader of Boko Haram was gunned down in Maiduguri.

Police killed three Boko Haram fighters who attacked a divisional police station and a bank in Misau on Sept. 12; five policemen and a civilian were killed during the fighting. Boko Haram fighters killed three people in Maiduguri.

A court charged eight Boko Haram members for their involvement in a string of bombings in Suleja. Boko Haram threatened to bomb 20 universities throughout the country.

Security officials said Shabaab and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb were involved in the suicide attack on the UN headquarters in Abua. Officials said Mamman Nur, the tactical commander who is linked to al Qaeda, was in Somalia before the attack.