Today’s Daily Brief: APC thinks GEJ’s planning to postpone elections, Suicide bombers attack market in Yobe, UPN denies adopting GEJ as its candidate, and more

An explosion has destroyed the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Okrika LGA, Rivers state. The explosion, which reportedly occurred around 3:14 a.m on Sunday, January 10, destroyed the secretariat building. The chairman of the party in the local government, Christian Asifamaka, told journalists that unknown persons used dynamite to attack the party’s office in Abam-Ama in... Read More

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January 11, 2015

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Terrible: Female suicide bombers attack crowded market in Yobe

by Chinwe Okafor Four people have been confirmed dead following a bomb blast via suicide in the northeast Nigerian city of Potiskum on Sunday. Two female suicide bombers, one of them aged about 15, were reported to have blown themselves up in a crowded market at Kasuwar Jagwal mobile phone market in the commercial capital... Read More

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December 23, 2014

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Opinion: My worries about female suicide bombers

by Michael Egbejumi-David Why and how could a couple of teenage girls agree to go into a hair salon filled with people just like them who had come to braid their hair – people like their sisters, their mothers, their aunts, their friends – and detonate a bomb which killed everyone there including themselves. ... Read More

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December 21, 2014

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Suicide bombing: 2 female students escape lynching in Minna

by Panshak Ibrahim Two female students barely escaped being lynched after being suspected to be suicide bombers. The incident occurred at the Minna Jumma’at Central Mosque on Friday, December 19. The students are undergraduates of the Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna. According to eyewitnesses, the ladies arrived the mosque premises when prayer was about to commence... Read More

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December 1, 2014

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Yet again, female suicide bombers attack market in Maiduguri

by James Sambo Two female suicide bombers have attacked a market in Maiduguri, replicating the bombing of 25 November, where another market nearby was also bombed by two female bombers. The female bombers are believed to have hidden the explosives in their hijab dress and blew themselves up as a female civilian-JTF operatives attempted to search them... Read More

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November 25, 2014

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Two female suicide bombers hit Maiduguri market

by Anike Jacobs At least 67 people were killed and 98 others injured when two female suicide bombers hit a densely populated market in Maiduguri, Borno State, this morning. More than 30 shops and 25 vehicles were also destroyed in the incident. One of the two teenage bombers detonated the explosive hidden in her flowing... Read More

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November 12, 2014

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Not Again! Female Suicide Bomber attacks Federal College of Education

by Anike Jacobs A woman has just killed herself in a failed attempt to be a suicide bomber at the Federal College of Education, Kontagora in Niger State. Eyewitnesses say the female would-be suicide bomber was instantly killed while another student sustained injuries. The Police spokesman in the state, ASP Ibrahim Gambari, confirmed the incident... Read More

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August 7, 2014

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Theophilus Ilevbare: We should be worried that young girls are now Jihadists

by Theophilus Ilevbare Islamic Jihadists in Nigeria have joined the global terror trend. It is an increasingly disquieting and disturbing twist to the war against terror. Boko Haram has adopted the Palestinian model of Jihadism in its recruitment of teenagers and little girls as suicide bombers in crowded places. On 27 January 2002, Palestinian anti-Israeli... Read More

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July 31, 2014

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How 10-year-old girl ‘strapped with explosives’ was arrested in Katsina

by Sola Filani A 10 year old girl strapped with an explosive belt has been discovered by security forces. The girl – in company of two other people, a man and an 18 year old girl – was arrested while traveling along a road in Katsina.The Director-General of the National Information Center, Mike Omeri disclosed... Read More

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July 30, 2014

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6 die as another explosion hits Kano State

by Mayowa Aboah A bomb explosion by a female suicide bomber at College of Islamic and Legal studies, Kano State, has left six dead with six others injured. Director-General of the National Orientation Agency, Mike Omeri, who confirmed the incident said; “At about 2.30 pm (1330 GMT), another female suicide bomber exploded an improvised... Read More

July 25, 2014

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Army arrests Kaduna bomber disguised as a woman

by S’ola Filani The Nigerian military has taken into custody a suspected bomber connected with the Wednesday’s bomb explosion in Kaduna. The young man had disguised as a woman clad in female garb to exude femininity with a brazier affixed to his chest. He was arrested while trying to fizzle into a crowd of onlookers... Read More

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May 23, 2013

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Revealed: Boko Haram not using suicide bombers

The truth however is even some of the bombers are sent to their death without them knowing so…. Contrary to widespread belief that most of the bombings by the Boko Haram sect are carried out by suicide bombers, it has been revealed that the sect, whose members are being routed out of... Read More

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Today’s Daily Brief: APC thinks GEJ’s planning to postpone elections, Suicide bombers attack market in Yobe, UPN denies adopting GEJ as its candidate, and more

Terrible: Female suicide bombers attack crowded market in Yobe

Opinion: My worries about female suicide bombers

Suicide bombing: 2 female students escape lynching in Minna

Yet again, female suicide bombers attack market in Maiduguri

Two female suicide bombers hit Maiduguri market

Not Again! Female Suicide Bomber attacks Federal College of Education

Theophilus Ilevbare: We should be worried that young girls are now Jihadists

How 10-year-old girl ‘strapped with explosives’ was arrested in Katsina

6 die as another explosion hits Kano State

Army arrests Kaduna bomber disguised as a woman

Revealed: Boko Haram not using suicide bombers

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