No group has yet said it was behind the attack during Thursday’s evening prayers, that also left many people injured.
More than 100 people were killed in three explosions last month in the city, which is considered the birthplace of Boko Haram
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“We counted 42 dead bodies outside the mosque,” added Amadu Marte, a vigilante supporting the security forces in the fight against the Islamist Boko Haram group, which has carried out repeated attacks in the region
Opadokun said: “There was an explosion in Gubio, about 85km to Maiduguri, at about 0550 hours on Wednesday when four suspected suicide bombers in military uniform infiltrated Gubio town in Gubio Local Government Area
Opadokun said: “There was an explosion at about 22.10 hours on Tuesday near the Airport Round-About, along Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway
The National Orientation Agency has advised parents and religious leaders of the two main faiths in the country to monitor their…
This was as the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, in a new video vowed that elections will not hold in Nigeria and that the insurgent group will outlast Nigeria’s neighbours, Chad and Niger, in the move to curtail the group’s activities
Four of those who died were the suspected suicide bombers.
The statement said with the recent trend of female suicide bombings in the country, the theft of these regalia has heightened concerns about the possibility of terrorist elements using the same to perpetrate acts of terror
The bombers, operating in five vehicles, were believed to be heading to the facility of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on the Maiduguri-Damboa Road
The suspected insurgents hit Adamawa State just as another suicide attack was foiled by security agents in Kano on Saturday
But the attempts, which failed to achieve maximum effect as the bomb-laden cars exploded before getting to their targets, left one of the suicide bombers dead