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Breaking News: Another bridge linking Borno and Adamawa blown up by Boko Haram

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Suspected members of Islamist terror group, Boko Haram, yesterday blew up another bridge that links Borno and Adamawa States, according to a Nigerian military source as well as residents in the area. The sources said members of the insurgent sect have continued their rampage in isolated towns in the northeast. Yesterday, Boko Haram militants also attacked residents of Limankara

List of names of 53 escapees of the abducted Chibok #bringbackourgirls

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The list of the schoolgirls abducted on April 14, 2014 in Chibok, Borno State, by Boko Haram gunmen has been released. An online report by Daily Trust on Friday said the list had the names of 53 schoolgirls that escaped from their captors. The list includes those who escaped on the night of their capture at the Government Secondary School Chibok, on April 14, as well as those who escaped from the

US marine locates where the abucted girls are at sambisa forest

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There were indications yesterday that the 230 female students abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from the Government Girls’ Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, Borno State, have been sited at the Sambisa Forest in Borno State, by the Special Forces of the United States Marines. The girls who were abducted on April 14, were part of the 250 students boarded at the school for the West African School

Borno State govt officials frowns at Goodluck Jonathan of detaining them in an open letter

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Sahara Reporters obtained the protest letter signed by Bashir Shuwa and Aliyu Biu.Two journalists who wrote a letter of protest over what they describe as the "maltreatment and humiliation" of some Borno State officials when they were summoned to the State House by Pres. Jonathan on Saturday May 3rd and Sunday May 4th Read: “We the undersigned wish to register our total protest to the President, and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal

Boko Harram suicide bomber shot dead in Borno

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A deadly explosion was yesterday averted by the police in Borno when a 25-year-old suicide bomber with heavily wired Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) was gunned down by policemen at the entrance of the state headquarters of the police in Maiduguri. The bomber had defiled attempts to check his Honda Accord car at the command’s gate yesterday afternoon and had driven into the premises, knocking down policemen at the gate. Police authority said the unusual speed with which the bomber drove into the headquarters and his refusal to stop for check and search at the gate drew the attention of some policemen around as they opened fire on him. Unexpectedly, the car hit a tree and halted immediately while policemen rushed to check the occupant. They were shocked to discover that the driver who defied checks at the sentry was a suicide bomber on a deadly mission. They also discovered that the car painted in ash colour with registration number AP 851 ABJ was lo...