Coordinated explosions staged by suspected suicide bombers tore through a busy market and other areas in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, police said on Tuesday.
Gunmen seized nine worshippers from a Catholic church during Sunday night prayers in restive central Nigeria, police said, in the latest bout of kidnappings in Africa’s most populous country.
Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu deployed an army battalion to a troubled state after gunmen killed as many as 162 people in one of the country’s deadliest attacks in recent months.
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