Omololu Ogunmade
26 December 2011
April 8, 2011
T win bomb blasts in Niger and Kaduna States on the eve of botched April 9 National Assembly election claimed the lives of eight corps members and a suicide bomber respectively. The Niger State explosion took place in the premises of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Suleja, while the Kaduna blast occurred when one of three sacks of 100 dynamites exploded, killing one of the couriers and leaving another injured
April 9, 2011
An explosion at a polling unit in Unguwar Doki near Monday Market in Maiduguri, Borno State, left a suicide bomber dead. The explosion occurred in a polling unit near Maiduguri International Hotel shortly after the accreditation of voters began.
April 25, 2011
Three bombs exploded in Maiduguri killing at least three persons. Two of the blasts occurred in a hotel, while the other took place in a transport hub that night. Victims were rushed to hospitals. Boko Haram promised to fight on until Muslims regain their freedom all over Nigeria.
May 19, 2011
Three policemen and two soldiers were injured during an early morning bomb blast along Lagos Street in Maiduguri. The bomb was suspected to have been planted by members of the Boko Haram sect.
May 29, 2011
On the day of President Goodluck Jonathan’s inauguration, three bomb blasts rocked Zuba near Abuja, Zaria and Maiduguri. Two people died in the explosion, while 16 others, including children, were seriously injured. The explosion in Zuba, a border community between Abuja and Niger State, according to reports, occurred at a beer parlour that night.
May 30, 2011
Thirteen people were confirmed dead, while 40 others were seriously injured in an explosion which rocked Nigeria Army’s Mammy Market, Shadawanka Barracks in Bauchi State. Earlier, an early morning bomb explosion had occurred along Baga Road in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, which created apprehension among residents of the city.
June 7, 2011
Five persons died while several others were injured in three separate bomb blasts in Maiduguri. The bombs were said to have been planted by members of the Boko Haram that afternoon. One of the blasts took place beside St. Patrick’s Catholic Church; another at Gwange ward and the last at Kano Motor Park in the city.
June 10, 2011
An explosion was averted in Kaduna when men of the Police Anti-Bomb Disposal Unit successfully detonated a live bomb planted in a market located at Gonin-Gora, in Southern part of Kaduna.
June 16, 2011
A bomb exploded inside the Nigerian Police headquarters in Abuja, killing three and some others injured. The bomb exploded in a car park inside the police headquarters.
July 9, 2011
A joint military operation against the Boko Haram sect resulted in the death of 30 persons including a 13-year-old boy in Maiduguri. Also in Suleja, Niger State, a bomb targeted at a church killed four and many others injured.
July 10, 2011
The Nigeria Army said it had shot 11 members of the Boko Haram dead and denied insinuations that civilians were among the victims.
July 11, 201
The Boko Haram sect bombed a relaxation joint in Kaduna injuring seven persons. The incident occurred at about 10.30pm at Fokados Street in the metropolis. Authorities of the University of Maiduguri shut the institution and announced the suspension of studies indefinitely as a result of the upsurge of insecurity in the city.
July 12, 2011
Five persons were killed in a fresh explosion when members of Boko Haram threw an explosive device on a moving military patrol vehicle. Spokesman of the Joint Taskforce Operation Restore Order (JTORO), Col. Victor Ebhaleme, said a pick-up van with some passengers matched on the planted bomb at the Total Filling station and it exploded.
July 13, 2011
Lagos, Ekiti and Oyo States evacuated their citizens from Maiduguri as a result of prevalent insecurity in the state.
July 15, 2011
Another explosion in Maiduguri rocked the Borno State capital, injuring five police officers.
July 23, 2011
A bomb explosion occurred near the palace of the Shehu of Borno, Abubakar Umar Garbai Elkanemi, leaving three soldiers injured. The bomb was believed to have been targeted at the patrol van of Joint Task Force on surveillance duty.
July 25, 2011
A bomb exploded near the palace of a traditional ruler in Maiduguri, killing eight people and injuring others. The Associated Press reported that spokesman for Joint Task Force, Lt. Col. Hassan Mohammed, refused to confirm deaths in the incident but an anonymous member of staff of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital said he saw two corpses of victims being taken to the hospital’s mortuary.
July 30, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan set up a committee to negotiate with the sect which has claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks in North-eastern Nigeria and Abuja. The committee was set up after a meeting between Jonathan and local leaders in Borno State.
August 15, 2011
A 25-year-old suicide bomber was shot dead by the police when he drove into the gate of the state police headquarters in Maiduguri and headed for the main building in an attempt to detonate the bomb. The suicide bomber was suspected to be a member of the Boko Haram in the state.
August 19, 2011
Members of the Boko Haram shot three policemen and a civilian dead after breaking into the house of one of the police officers. Suppliers of explosives to the Boko Haram were arrested in Maiduguri. The state Police Commissioner Simeon Midenda failed to disclose the name of the supplier.
August 25, 2011
Members of Boko Haram killed four policemen and one soldier in Gombi, Adamawa State . They later proceeded to two first generation banks where they killed seven members of staff and carted away an undisclosed sum of money.
August 26, 2011
The United Nations building in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was reduced to rubbles following a deadly suicide bombing. Nineteen people were killed while 60 others were severely wounded. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon condemned the act. Boko Haram claimed responsibility.
August 26, 2011
The sect claims responsibility for a suicide bomb blast on the UN compound in Abuja, killing 23 people.
September 1, 2011
There was a shootout between Boko Haram members and soldiers in Song, Adamawa State, leading to the killing of one member of the sect while another was injured and captured.
September 4, 2011
Muslim cleric, Malam Dala, shot dead by two members of Boko Haram outside his home in the Zinnari area of Maiduguri.
September 12, 2011
Seven men, including four policemen, are killed by Boko Haram in bomb and shooting attacks on a police station and a bank in Misau, Bauchi State. The attackers rob the bank.
September 13, 2011
Members of Boko Haram shot and wounded four soldiers in an ambush in Maiduguri shortly after the arrest of 15 sect members during military raids on Boko Haram hideouts in the city.
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