What’s suspected to be a bomb went off in the early hours of Wednesday in the commercial nerve centre of Onitsha, Anambra State. The incident reportedly injured some traders at a market, where the explosion took place. As at the time of filing this report, Aproko247 could not confirm if anyone was killed in the…
A housing estate in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital was on Wednesday morning bombed by some suspected terrorists. The Yobe State’s Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, confirmed to the media that about 16 persons were feared dead in the attack. The incident, which occurred in the early hours of Wednesday, October 7, 2015, was allegedly carried…
Several persons were said to have been killed on Friday night at a popular market in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. According to reports, suspected members of the Boko Haram sect detonated improvised explosive devices at a market in Kuje, near a police station in the area. Many other persons were said to have…
Several blasts around Ajilari Railway Cross of Gomari Airport ward of Maiduguri have left many persons dead on Sunday night. The explosions were said to have occurred simultaneously in the area, leaving several people dead and seriously injured. It is believed that members of the deadly group called Boko Haram must have carried out the…
Scene of the blast on Friday A mosque near the Emir’s palace in Kano has been bombed, reports reaching us from the ancient indicate. The explosion occurred just when Muslim faithful in the city were about to observe the Friday J’umaat prayers at the Kano Central Mosque. Imam of the mosque, Sani Zahradeen, was just…
Aproko247 has learnt that another explosion has occurred in Azare area of Bauchi State after a bomb went off in the same area on Friday. The incident precisely took place at a phone market in Azare, near the stadium. A governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bauchi, Yusuf Tuggar, took to his…
No fewer than 22 persons were feared killed on Wednesday afternoon in an explosion that rocked the city of Kaduna. The blast occurred along Isa Kaita Road, which leads to the popular Murtala Square in Central Kaduna. It is believed that a convoy of an Islamic leader called Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi was the main target…