Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in March.
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This year, Nigeria, backed by its neighbours, was able to recapture much of the territory lost to Boko Haram though suicide bombings and other attacks blamed by officials on the militant group remain part of daily life in the north.
Suicide-bomb attacks in the Nigerian cities of Yola and Kano Tuesday ought to serve as a reminder that the wholesale murder of innocents are being carried out all over.
Female suicide bombers have attacked Kano before.
It was the first suspected Boko Haram attack in Nigeria since a twin suicide attack in Yola on October 23 and revived fears of a fresh round of carnage.
Facebook usually activates its Safety Check feature, which was launched in 2014 following Typhoon Ruby (Hagupit), after natural disasters, not terrorist attacks.
Faul reported from Lagos, Nigeria. Both groups are responsible for 51 percent of terrorism-related deaths worldwide. It had failed to activate it when more than 40 people were killed in suicide bombings in Beirut on Thursday.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the arrest of the country’s former national security adviser, accusing him of stealing around $2 billion received for phantom arms contracts, the presidency said.
Nigeria’s social media buzzed with the news.
Aisha Aliyu, a young girl, told the Times a friend and the woman’s four children had died.
When The Guardian visited the Yola Specialist Hospital yesterday, the Medical Director, Dr. Bala Idi Saidu, confirmed that there were 29 bodies in the hospital mortuary and that 47 injured people were receiving treatment in the hospital. Buhari declared that the terror organization was close to defeat, according to the Daily Independent, an Ogba-based newspaper.
Although no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, it resembles the kind that had been carried out in the past by Boko Haram terrorists.
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This won’t help the USA look any better: “While American politicians compete in the wake of the Paris terror attacks to see who can most hysterically denounce the possibility of accepting Syrian refugees, French President Francois Hollande said Wednesday that his country will follow through on its pre-attack commitment to take in 30,000 Syrians fleeing that country’s conflict”.
