He maintained his country’s commitment to assisting Nigeria and the region eliminate the Islamic militant Boko Haram. At least 15 people were killed but the toll was feared many times higher.
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However, voters and candidates remarked that names were missing from ballots and some materials were not available. Polls began to close at 5 p.m. (1600 GMT), though many continued to vote after a day that passed without violence.
The Nigerian Army also disclosed that 25 people were killed and 85 others injured when three of 14 female suicide bombers who attempted to invade Maiduguri blew themselves off on Sunday.
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The military said attacks took place at four south-western entry points to the city.
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Two female suicide bombers killed “several people” in the Buraburin neighborhood. We have succeeded in dislodging them.
Police also said that a bomb targeting a mosque in the city also killed at least 20 more people.
The attack is said to be a challenge to President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration that Boko Harak, was “technically” defeated, only able to execute suicide bombings on soft targets.
Nigeria’s fight to end the Boko Haram insurgency with billions of US dollars committed is yielding results this year, but the Islamist group has proved to be a hard nut to crack.
Boko Haram’s six-year insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria has led to the deaths of some 17,000 people, destroyed more than 1,000 schools and displaced more than 1.5 million people.
The group’s six-year quest to create an independent Islamic state in northern Nigeria has killed and wounded thousands, and included the mass kidnapping of hundreds of young women.
“I believe they (our troops) have averted what would have been a major disaster if they (suicide bombers) had gained entrance into Maiduguri”, he said.
According to the statement, “The United States remains committed to helping Nigeria and its neighbors counter Boko Haram’s senseless acts of terror”.
They are deceiving Nigerians while diverting Security Vote under the pretence of fighting Boko Haram insurgency. When people gathered, she detonated her explosives, according to a village official, Bulama Isa. The terrorist group used rocket-propelled grenades. He said one member of the watch committee was lightly wounded. Like the nurse, he spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to reporters. At least 60 received “wounds from bullets and shrapnel from explosive devices”.
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According to him, “One of them (suicide bombers) went to a nearby house and requested for water to perform ablution but instead prepared herself and came to a nearby mosque and blew off herself killing one person while 13 others were injured”. Given that so many people had been blown to pieces, the body count was a hard task to do.
