‘Half the city underwater’: One million affected by northern Nigeria ...
Sep 12, 2024 · The heavy surge of water buried half the state capital, Maiduguri, damaging buildings and infrastructure. Authorities say some one million people are affected, of which about 200,000 are...
Maiduguri News | Latest News - NewsNow
Latest news on Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria. It is also the largest city in the state. The city is located on the eastern edge of the Borno Plain, near the Mandara Mountains.
Female suicide bombers kill at least 18 in Nigeria | AP News
Jun 30, 2024 · At least 18 people were killed and 30 injured, including 19 seriously, in coordinated attacks by suspected female suicide bombers in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Gwoza on Saturday, local authorities said, raising security concerns in a region which has been at a center of Islamist insurgency.
‘A disaster’: Homes lost, relatives missing in floods in northeast Nigeria
Sep 19, 2024 · Abdullahi is one of an estimated 300,000 people displaced by floods that hit Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri early last week. Some 37 people have died, according to government figures....
Nigeria Alau Dam collapse in Maiduguri: Survivors desperate as …
Sep 12, 2024 · A city in north-eastern Nigeria is inundated with flood waters, leaving residents homeless and desperate.
Hundreds flee in northwest Nigeria after attacks, official, residents ...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, May 27 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people have fled their villages in a rural community in northwestern Nigeria after weekend attacks by armed groups left 10 dead and at least...
Nigeria floods affect one million people after dam collapse
Sep 11, 2024 · Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris, reporting from Maiduguri in Nigeria, said a “stream of people” are currently making their way out of areas covered by the floodwaters. He said civilians have been...
Thousands of Boko Haram Members Surrendered. They Moved In …
Sep 23, 2021 · MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — For over a decade, the extremist group Boko Haram has terrorized northeastern Nigeria — killing tens of thousands of people, kidnapping schoolgirls and sending suicide...
Nigeria Maiduguri floods: Prisoners flee after water damages jail …
Sep 16, 2024 · The Nigerian authorities say more than 270 inmates are now known to be missing after escaping from custody when severe flooding damaged a prison in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri. So far,...
Boko Haram militants on motorcycles attacked a Nigerian village ...
Sep 4, 2024 · MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — At least 100 villagers were killed in northeastern Nigeria when suspected Boko Haram Islamic extremists opened fire on a market, on worshippers and in people’s homes, residents said Wednesday, …