A female suicide bomber blew herself up this
evening November 16th in the middle of a
mobile phone market in Azare, Bauchi state.
A witness who was at the scene of the blast
told AFP that he saw at least 8 people dead
“A suicide bomber came into the market
as it was closing and blew herself up in
the middle of all the merchants and
their customers. I saw at least eight
dead and lots of others wounded,” a
witness, Alyu Habib told AFP
12 people have so far been confirmed dead,
while at least 60 others were injured. This is
the second time Azare will be coming under
bomb attacks. Decapitated head of the
suicide bomber after the cut.. 
According to a breaking news report by AFP,
Boko Haram men have captured Chibok
community. A serving senator from Borno
state and a resident Pastor confirmed the
development to AFP.
"Chibok was taken by Boko Haram. They
are in control," said Enoch Mark, a
Christian pastor whose daughter and
niece are among the 219 teenagers still
being held.
Borno Senator, Ali Ndume told AFP that the
militants attacked at about 4pm on Thursday,
destroying communications masts and
forcing residents to flee.
At least 10 people were killed today after a
female suicide bomber blew herself up at the
Federal College of Education Kontagora in
Niger state today November 12th.
One of the students of the school, Mary Okafor
who spoke with AFP, said they were all at the
library reading for their semester examinations
when they heard the bomb go off
"We saw bodies on the ground between the
library and the female hostel. Among the
bodies were two dismembered women who we
believe were the bombers. At least 10
students were killed and several others
injured. They have all been moved to the
general hospital. We have all been asked to
vacate the school. The authorities in the
town have asked all schools to close." she
said
See a pic from the scene today. Not sure if it's
the body of the suicide bomber or one of the
victims but it's quite graphic so be warned... 
Boko Haram denied that they had agreed to a
ceasefire in a new video obtained on Friday by
AFP, describing the Nigerian government
claims as a lie and apparently ruling out
future talks.
The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, also
claimed the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped from
the remote northeast town of Chibok, in Borno
state, in April had converted to Islam and
been married off. 
In addition, Shekau said the Islamists were
holding a German national, who was
kidnapped in Adamawa state, also northeast
Nigeria, in July.
The video comes after a surprise Nigerian
military and presidency announcement on
October 17 that a deal had been reached with
the militants to end hostilities.
A senior presidential aide to Goodluck
Jonathan also said agreement had been
reached to free the schoolgirls, whose
abduction sparked global anger and demands
for their release.
There was immediate scepticism about both
claims because of previous assertions of
ceasefires and the identity of the purported
Boko Haram envoy at the supposed talks,
Danladi Ahmadu.
Violence — and fresh kidnappings — have
continued unabated since the announcement,
including a triple bombing of a bus station in
the northern city of Gombe on Friday that
killed at least eight.
Nigeria’s government maintains that talks
were ongoing in the Chadian capital,
Ndjamena.
But Shekau, speaking in Hausa, dressed in
military fatigues and boots with a black
turban, and flanked by 15 armed fighters, said:
“We have not made ceasefire with anyone…
“We did not negotiate with anyone… It’s a lie.
It’s a lie. We will not negotiate. What is our
business with negotiation? Allah said we
should not.”
He also said he did not know Danladi.
– Kidnapped girls –
There was no indication of when or where the
video was shot but it was obtained through
the same channels as previous
communications from the group.
In it, Shekau mentions the Chibok girls for the
first time since a video obtained on May 5,
when more than 100 were shown in a rural
location dressed in the hijab and reciting
verses from the Koran.
Then, the militant leader said many of the
girls had converted to Islam but in the latest,
he indicated that all of those held had become
Muslims.
“Don’t you know the over 200 Chibok
schoolgirls have converted to Islam? They
have now memorised two chapters of the
Koran,” he said.
Shekau previously threatened to sell the girls
as slave brides and also suggested that he
would be prepared to release them in
exchange for Boko Haram prisoners.
In the latest message, he said while laughing:
“We have married them off. They are in their
marital homes.”
Human Rights Watch said in a report
published this week that Boko Haram was
holding upwards of 500 women and young
girls and that forced marriage was
commonplace in the militant camps.
One former hostage said she saw some of the
Chibok girls forced to cook and clean for other
women and girls who had been chosen for
“special treatment because of their beauty”.
– German national –
Shekau’s claim in the video that they were
“holding your German hostage” is the first
claim of responsibility for the abduction,
which happened on July 16.
The German foreign ministry in Berlin said it
did not want to comment when contacted by
AFP.
Armed gunmen kidnapped the foreigner, who
was said to be a teacher at a government
technical training centre in Gombi, about 100
kilometres (62 miles) from the Adamawa state
capital Yola.
Suspicion immediately fell on Boko Haram,
which has repeatedly attacked schools
teaching a so-called Western curriculum, as
well as teachers and students.
An offshoot of Boko Haram, Ansaru, has
previously claimed the kidnapping of at least
eight foreigners in northern Nigeria since 2012
but the group has been largely dormant for
more than a year.
The group reportedly broke with Boko Haram
to specifically target foreigners instead of
Nigerians and executed seven expatriates it
seized from Bauchi state in 2013.
In January 2012, Boko Haram kidnapped
German engineer Edgar Raupach at a
construction site on the outskirts of the
northern city of Kano.
He was killed in a military raid on a Boko
Haram hideout on the outskirts of the city four
months later.
Kidnappings for ransom by criminal gangs are
common in the oil-producing south. On
October 24, armed men shot dead one German
national and kidnapped another in Ogun state,
southwest Nigeria.
Both were working for the construction firm
Julius Berger. The hostage was later released,
the company said on Thursday.
Unknown gunmen killed a German national
and abducted another one on Friday morning
October 24th in Sagamu, Ogun state. The two
men, who worked for Julius Berger, were
traveling in two separate vehicles without their
security escorts when the gunmen attacked
and fired shots into their vehicles.
"About four armed men emerged from the
bush near Sagamu on Friday morning and
attacked. A bullet hit one German and he was
confirmed dead on arrival at the hospital,
while the hoodlums abducted another
German.” police spokesman Abimbola
Oyeyemi told AFP
Four Nigerians taking refuge in a village in
the far north of Cameroon have been killed by
members of Boko Haram in an attack that
took place on Friday October 24th.
According to a statement made available
today to AFP, the Cameroonian Ministry of
Defence said the sect members attacked "the
village of Glawi, killing four Nigerian refugees
and wounding one Camerounian, before being
pushed back by defence forces which pursued
them”.
The ministry also said two groups of Boko
Haram members had also tried to enter
another border village with Nigeria but they
were “immediately intercepted and neutralised
by our defence forces who destroyed three
4×4 vehicles equipped with machine guns,
killing 27 assailants,”.
39 members of the sect were confirmed dead
after the various attacks
