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Over 280 prisoners escape from a prison in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, due to damage to prison walls caused by heavy floods.
2024-09-15

Boko Haram militants fire a series of rockets in Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria, killing 10 civilians and wounding others.
2021-02-24

ISWAP kills over 20 soldiers and 40 civilians in attacks in Monguno and Nganzai in Borno, Nigeria – four days after they killed 82 civilians in Gubio.
2020-06-13

According to a Nigerian Army spokesman, a Boko Haram suicide bomber kills six people inside a mosque in the town of Damboa, Borno State. A second suicide bomber attempted to enter the same mosque but failed to gain entry and detonated his belt, killing only himself.
2016-07-8

Fighting in various remote villages in the Borno State of Nigeria kill at least one civilian and six Boko Haram militants. According to the Nigerian Army, they've rescued more than 5,000 hostages from the militants.
2016-06-26

The Nigerian Army rescues dozens of women and children in Borno State.
2015-09-15

Dual Boko Haram attacks in Maiduguri and Damaturu leave at least 77 dead, including 33 police, 6 soldiers, and 20 militants.
2014-12-1

Two teenage girl suicide bombers kill more than 40 people in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria.
2014-11-25

Thousands of people flee Maiduguri in Borno State after recent deadly attacks there.
2011-07-12

At least four people, including Modu Fannami Gubio, a former opposition All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) candidate for governor in Borno, Nigeria, are shot dead in Maiduguri.
2011-01-28