borno state news

The Digest: Troops of Operation HADIN KAI have arrested five suspects linked to the "unauthorised discharge of firearms" that killed a 14-year-old girl in Maiduguri on Saturday. According to a statement, vigilantes and an escort team attached to a local government chairman engaged in sporadic...

The Digest: A 14-year-old girl was killed on Saturday, April 4, after being hit by a stray bullet allegedly fired by military personnel engaged in celebratory gunfire during a wedding ceremony in Maiduguri, Borno State. The teenager was inside her home in the University of Maiduguri Teaching...

The Digest: Suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists attacked the Nganzai Divisional Police Headquarters in Borno State at about 1 am on Saturday, killing four police personnel and a hunter. Police spokesperson ASP Nahum Kenneth Daso said the attackers deployed Rocket-Propelled Grenades (RPGs)...

The Digest: Troops of the Joint Task Force, North East, Operation HADIN KAI, have neutralized 38 Islamic State West Africa Province terrorists during a counter-attack at Forward Operating Base Mandaragirau in Borno State. The terrorists attacked the base early Saturday but were overpowered by...

The Digest: Families in Maiduguri have begun searching for loved ones who were visiting the three locations hit by Monday's bomb blasts that killed 23 and injured 108. Police spokesperson ASP Nahum Daso confirmed they are receiving reports from relatives and have liaised with ward heads...

The Digest: A victim of Monday's Maiduguri bomb blasts, Abacha Mustapha, has recounted the terrifying moment explosions ripped through the city, leaving him seriously injured. Speaking from his hospital bed at Umaru Shehu Hospital, Mustapha described how he was preparing to leave the market...

The Digest: The Northern States Governors' Forum has condemned Monday evening's deadly bomb explosions in Maiduguri that killed 23 and injured 108, describing the attacks as "barbaric" and a direct assault on innocent lives. Chairman and Gombe State Governor Inuwa Yahaya expressed deep sorrow...

The Digest: Twenty-three persons have been confirmed dead and 108 injured following multiple bomb blasts in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Monday evening. The explosions, carried out by suspected suicide bombers, hit the Monday Market, University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital gate, and Post...

The Digest: Multiple explosions rocked Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, on Monday evening, with several people feared killed, according to security sources and residents. The first blast occurred at a post office in the city centre, followed immediately by another at the popular Monday...

The Digest: Boko Haram terrorists have overrun another military base in Borno State, killing the commanding officer and other officers in an attack on Kukawa Local Government Area in the early hours of Monday. Sources revealed insurgents stormed the town from multiple directions around 12:30...

The Digest: Suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists have abducted more than 100 women and children in an attack on Ngoshe community in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, Daily Trust reports. The assailants first attacked a military base belonging to the 82 Division Task Force Battalion...

The Digest: Boko Haram insurgents have killed Forward Operations Base commander Major IU Mairiga, three soldiers, and a hunter during a night attack on Mayanti in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. Security sources revealed that Major Mairiga fought bravely, neutralizing several...

The Digest: No fewer than 117 repentant terrorists from Borno State have completed the Disarmament, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) programme under Operation Safe Corridor at Mallam Sidi Camp, Defence Headquarters has announced. At a high-level stakeholders' meeting in Abuja, Operation...

The Digest: At least eight Nigerian soldiers were killed and 23 others injured in a raid by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters on a military base at Cross Kauwa village in Borno State, security sources told AFP. About 70 militants on motorcycles attacked the base on Monday...

The Digest: Suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) insurgents have ambushed Nigerian military personnel near Damasak, Mobbar Local Government Area of Borno State, capturing 13 soldiers and killing seven others, including a commanding officer recently promoted to lieutenant...

The Digest: A suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden vehicle rammed into a military convoy in the Timbuktu Triangle area of Borno State on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, killing five soldiers and wounding an unspecified number of troops. According to Daily Trust, the attack occurred as troops...

The Digest: Speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly, Abdulkarim Lawan, has publicly protested the exclusion of Vice President Kashim Shettima’s picture from a banner displayed at an All Progressives Congress (APC) event in Maiduguri. The banner featured President Bola Tinubu, five APC...

The Digest: The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has reported that over 40 terrorists were killed in coordinated airstrikes in Borno State. According to a statement from NAF Spokesman Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, precision strikes were conducted on January 15 and 16 in the Azir and Musarram areas...

The Digest: Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have demanded a N423 million ransom for the release of Hassan Miringa, the former Vice-Chairman of Biu Local Government Area in Borno State, and another abductee. In a video released by the militants, the captives appealed to government officials and...

The Digest: A suspected Boko Haram bomber, Ibrahim Mohammed, captured in Yobe State, has detailed how he was paid N100,000 to plant explosives at the Gamboru Market Mosque in Maiduguri, an attack that killed five and injured 32 on December 24. Key Points: Ibrahim, from Michika, Adamawa...