Bomb explosions rock Maiduguri, killing and injuring residents

Unspecified number of persons were feared killed, while many others sustained injuries after bomb explosions around Monday Market and near a security post at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, in Maiduguri, Borno State on Monday. It was gathered that the bombs detonated simultaneously at about 7.02 pm, hours after suspected Boko Haram terrorists launched […]

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40 years after, white man recreates his childhood photo taken on a tree in Maiduguri (Photos)

A white man, Swen Abel, believed to be from the Netherlands, visited Borno State and recreated a childhood photo of himself clinging to a tree in Maiduguri almost 40 years ago. Rahma Monguno, son of late former Nigerian minister and influential Borno politician, Shettima Ali Monguno, shared the interestiong story on Facebook today, October 7. According […]

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The Hero of Maiduguri, By Akin Osuntokun

“I predict that every multi-lingual or multi-national country with a unitary constitution must either eventually have a federal constitution based on the principles which I have enunciated, or disintegrate, or be perennially afflicted with disharmony and instability” – Obafemi Awolowo The fundamental political argument of Nigeria today boils down to the contention between the political […]

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