CHRONOLOGY OF VIOLENCE
AND TERRORISM IN NIGERIA
2002
2002: Many people claim
that Boko Haram was formally founded
2007
2007: Buju Foi, an
influential Boko Haram member, was appointed by Borno State Governor, Ali Modu
Sheriff, as commissioner of religious affairs.
2009
July 2009: Boko
Haram attacked Maiduguri police stations.
Mohammed Yusuf released a video and threatened vengeance.
July 2009: Mohammed Yusuf, leader of
Boko Haram, was captured by the Nigerian army and handed over to the police. He
was found dead later and the police claimed that he was killed while trying to
escape. Residents and human rights groups claimed that he was assassinated.
2010
September 2010: Boko Haram members attack a prison in Bauchi and freed
hundreds of prisoners including some members of the sect.
December 2010: Bombings in Jos, Plateau state and Maiduguri, Borno State
killing about 80 people.
December 2010: Attack
on Army barracks in Abuja.
December 2010: Governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party
(ANPP) in Borno state and seven others were shot dead by gunmen suspected to be
Boko Haram members.
2011
May 2011:
Bomb attacks and violent
reactions after the presidential elections.
June 2011: Police Head Quarter (HQ)
bombed in Abuja
June 2011: Muslim cleric critic of Boko
Haram, Ibrahim Birkuti, was shot dead by two gunmen on a motorcycle.
July 2011: Federal government attempted
to dialogue with Boko Haram.
August 2011: United Nations (UN) Head Quarters
bombed in Abuja, 23 people were killed.
August 2011: Federal
government rejects negotiations with Boko Haram.
September 1, 2011: Violence in Adamawa State
September 4, 2011: Muslim cleric Malam Dala shot dead by two
Boko
Haram members
outside his home in the Zinnari area of Maiduguri
September 12, 2011: Seven men,
including four policemen, were killed by Boko Haram gunmen in bomb and shooting
attacks on a police station and a bank in Misau, Bauchi State. The attackers
rob the bank.
September 13, 2011: Four
soldiers shot and wounded in an ambush by Boko Haram members in Maiduguri
shortly after the arrest of 15 sect members in military raids on Boko Haram
hideouts in the city.
September 17, 2011: Babakura
Fugu, brother-in-law to slain Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf, shot dead
outside his house in Maiduguri two days after attending a peace meeting with
Nigeria's ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in the city.
October 1, 2011: A
butcher and his assistant were killed by Boko Haram gunmen at Baga market in
Maiduguri. Boko Haram bomb and attacked a military patrol vehicle delivering
food to soldiers at a checkpoint in Maiduguri.
October 3, 2011: Boko Haram attack and killed some people
on Baga market in Maiduguri, Borno State.
October 19, 2011: Boko Haram gunmen
shoot dead Muslim cleric Sheikh Ali Jana'a outside his home in the Bulabulin
Ngarnam neighborhood of Maiduguri. Jana'a is known to have provided information
to security forces regarding the sect.
October 23, 2011: Boko Haram members
kill a policeman and a bank security guard in bombing and shooting attacks on a
police station and two banks in Saminaka, Kaduna State.
October 23, 2011: Sect members open
fire on a market in the town of Katari in Kaduna State, killing two.
October 25, 2011: A policeman was
shot dead in his house in a targeted attack by Boko Haram gunmen in Damaturu.
November 2011: Boko Haram turned down the government proposed amnesty
November 2, 2011: A soldier on duty
was shot dead by sect members outside Maiduguri's main market.
November 4, 2011: The motorcade of Borno State governor Kashim Shettima was attacked
by Boko Haram in Maiduguri on its way from the airport to the governor's
residence. Many people were killed in a coordinated Boko Haram bombing and
shooting attacks on police facilities in Damaturu and Potiskum in Yobe State.
Two Boko Haram suicide-bombers blow themselves up outside the military Joint
Task Force headquarters in Maiduguri in a botched suicide attack.
November 9, 2011: Boko Haram members
bomb a police station and the office of Nigeria's road safety agency in Maina
village, Borno State. No one was hurt.
November 26, 2011: Three policemen and a
civilian were wounded in Boko Haram bomb and shooting attacks in Geidam, Yobe
State. Six churches, a police station, a beer parlour, a shopping complex, a high court, a
local council building and 11 cars were burnt in the attacks.
November 27, 2011: A Borno State protocol
officer in the office of the governor was shot dead by motorcycle-riding sect
members while driving home.
November 2011: Boko Haram announces that it will not
hold talks with the Government until all members of the sect, who have been
arrested, are released.
4 December 2011: A soldier, a policeman and a
civilian were killed in bomb and gun attacks on police buildings and two banks
in Azare, Bauchi State. Boko Haram opens fire at a wedding in Maiduguri,
killing the groom and a guest.
December 7, 2011: A bomb
explosion in the Oriyapata district of Kaduna city.
December 13, 2011: A bomb attack on a military checkpoint by Boko Haram and
resulting shooting by soldiers in Maiduguri some people dead and others
injured.
December 17, 2011: A shootout between
sect members and policemen following a raid on the hideout of a Boko Haram sect
leader in the Darmanawa area of Kano State kills seven, including three police
officers. Police arrest 14 Boko Haram suspects and seize large quantity of arms
and bombs. Three Boko Haram members died in an accidental explosion while
assembling home-made bombs in a hideout on the outskirts of Maiduguri.
December 19, 2011: One suspected Boko
Haram member died and two others wounded in an accidental explosion while
assembling a homemade bomb in a hideout in Damaturu.
December 22, 2011: Boko Haram bombs in
parts of Maiduguri kill many. Four policemen and a civilian were killed in gun
and bomb attacks on a police building in Potiskum, Yobe State. Around 100 were
killed following multiple bomb and shooting attacks by Boko Haram gunmen and
ensuing gun battles with troops in the Pompomari outskirts of Damaturu.
December 25, 2011: A Christmas Day Boko
Haram bomb attack on Saint Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla town near Abuja
kills many people.
December 28, 2011: A bombing and shooting attack by Boko Haram
in Mubi, Adamawa State injured some people
December 30, 2011: Four Muslim
worshippers were killed in a Boko Haram bomb and shooting attack targeting a
military checkpoint in Maiduguri as worshippers leave a mosque after attending Friday prayers.
2012
January 2012: Kano multiple bombings that killed
many people
January 2012: President Goodluck Jonathan declares
a state of emergency in 15 local government areas in Borno,
Yobe
and Plateau states and also ordered the closure of Nigeria's land borders in
the north.
January 2012: President Goodluck
Jonathan said that Boko Haram has infiltrated government, including the
executive, national assembly and the judiciary.
January 2012: Boko Haram launches bomb attacks
and heavy gun battles in Kano
targeting the police headquarters. Over 150 people reported killed.[1]
January 3, 2012: Boko Haram gunmen attack a police station
in Birniwa in Jigawa State killing a teenage girl and wounding a police
officer.
January 5, 2012: Six
worshippers are killed and 10 others wounded when Boko Haram gunmen attack a
church in Gombe city.
January 6, 2012: Attack on a church in Yola. Seventeen
Christian mourners in the town of Mubi in the north eastern state of Adamawa
were killed. The victims are friends and relations of one of the five people
killed in a Boko Haram attack on a hotel the previous day.
January 7, 2012: Three
Christian poker players were killed and seven others wounded by Boko Haram
gunmen in the town of Biu.
January 9, 2012: Boko Haram gunmen shoot dead a secret
police operative along with his civilian friend as they left a mosque in Biu,
Borno State, 200km south of the state capital, Maiduguri.
January 10, 2012: A Boko Haram attack on a garden kills eight,
including five policemen and a teenage girl, in Damaturu, capital of Yobe
State.
January 11, 2012: Four people killed by Boko Haram gunmen in
Potiskum, Yobe State, when gunmen open fire on their car as they stop for fuel.
The victims had been fleeing Maiduguri to their home town in eastern Nigeria.
January 13, 2012: Boko Haram kills four and injures two others,
including a policeman, in two separate attacks Yola
(Adamawa State) and Gombe city in neighboring Gombe State.
January 17, 2012:
Two soldiers and four Boko Haram
gunmen were killed in an attack on a military checkpoint in Maiduguri, Borno
State; Soldiers arrested six high-profile Boko Haram members in a raid on a
sect hideout in the city.
January 18, 2012: A key suspect in the 2011 Christmas Day bombing in
Abuja, which killed more than 40 people, escapes police custody.
January 22, 2012:
Kano
multiple bombing killing over 200 people
January 24, 2012: Security personnel shot and killed one Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, 32, a
Boko Haram Sect member, and his pregnant wife on Monday night during a gun
fight with members of the Boko Haram in Hotoro quarters of Kano City.[2]
2013
January 3, 2013: Heavily
armed gunmen killed four people, burnt a police station, a government building
in a North-Eastern Nigerian town. The gunmen attacked the police station in the
town of Song near the border with Cameroon and engaged soldiers and police
officers in a shootout.[3]
January 7, 2013: Gunmen on a motorcycle killed three
people on Monday when they opened fire on a group of Muslim worshippers in
Kano.[4]
January 14, 2013: The Nigerian military claimed to have
arrested a leader of Boko Haram, Mohammed Zangina and detained in the
Government Reserved Area (GRA) of Maiduguri. Mr Zangina, also known as
Mallam Abdullahi and Alhaji Musa, was planning "deadly attacks"
against civilians and security personnel.[5]
January 17, 2013: Gunmen killed four policemen in Kano;
two policemen lost their lives when some gunmen in a vehicle opened fire on
their patrol van at Yanawaki area. Another policeman was seriously injured in
the attack. [6] Boko
Haram Islamist sect opened fire on a military checkpoint on the outskirts of
Kano, leading to an hour-long shootout.[7]
January 19, 2013: Gunmen attacked the convoy of the Emir of
Kano who survived, but his driver and two guards were killed. Boko Haram
had previously killed some Muslim clerics. [8]
Two Nigerian soldiers were killed and five others seriously injured in a 19
January attack on a military detachment heading for deployment in Mali.[9]
January 20, 2013: The Islamist group Jama'atu Ansarul
Musilimina Fi Biladis Sudan (JAMBS) - “Vanguard for the Aid of Muslims in Black
Africa” - claimed responsibility for the attack, which it said was in response
to Nigeria's participation in the military intervention in Mali. JAMBS
splintered from Boko Haram in June 2012 and are believed by some to have close
ties to Islamist groups in North Africa and Mali.” “Suspected Islamists have
been blamed for the deaths of at least 23 people in separate attacks in
north-eastern Nigeria. Witnesses say gunmen apparently targeted hunters selling
bush meat in Damboa on Monday, killing 18 people. Another five people died on
Tuesday when a group of men playing draughts was attacked in Kano. The militant
group Boko Haram, which is fighting to create an Islamic state, has staged many
attacks in Nigeria.” [10]
January, 22, 2013: Boko Haram opened fire at a market in
volatile North-Eastern Nigeria, Damboa, killing 18 people. According to Ahmed,
there were claims that the Islamists were angry over the hunters selling meat
such as pork forbidden in Islam. Other residents however spoke of hunters in
the area recently banding together to form a local vigilante group in response
to robberies by Boko Haram members, sparking a revenge attack from the
Islamists. Hunters typically sell their game at the market in Damboa where the
attack occurred.[11]
January 23, 2013: Boko Haram beheaded five people after
storming into their homes on in Maiduguri.[12] At least 23 others were killed in separate
attacks in the north the same week. The throats of at least 15 Christians were
split near Maiduguri. [13]
February 1, 2013: Nigeria's military said it has killed 17
insurgents in an attack on two training camps belonging to the Boko Haram Islamist
group.[15]
February 10, 2013: Three North Korean doctors were killed in
Potiskum, Yobe. Two of them had their
throats slit while the third was beheaded. [16]
February 12, 2013: Two Nigerian journalists were charged in
court with conspiracy and inciting a disturbance over the killing of nine
female polio vaccinators in Kano. Some have accused Boko Haram for the two
separate attacks on the polio vaccinators. [17]
February 18, 2013: Nigerian militant group Ansaru kidnapped
seven foreign workers in a raid that saw a security guard killed. Ansaru, which
announced its existence in a video released in June 2012, is suspected of being
an off-shoot of Boko Haram. The new movement has been listed by the UK
government as a ‘terrorist organisation’ aligned with al-Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb. [18]
February 20, 2013: A blast targeting a military patrol vehicle
killed two civilians warning that Boko Haram had not declared a ceasefire, as
reported by some media. [19]
February 23, 2013: Gunmen on motorcycles shot dead five people
and injured several others in Gombe.[20] Six people died and many others were
injured when unknown gunmen attacked Aduwan Gida Village in the Zangon Kataf
Local Government Area (LGA) of Southern Kaduna during the evening of 23
February. [21]
March 3, 2013: Nigeria's military killed 20 fighters from Islamist group
Boko Haram in the North-Eastern Borno state as they tried to seize military
barracks in the village of Monguno.[22]
March 4, 2013: The leader of Nigerian Islamist group
Boko Haram rejected peace talks with the government in a video, distancing himself from a purported commander
who declared a ceasefire on behalf of the sect in January. [23]
March 10, 2013: Ansaru killed seven foreign hostages to
internationalise a bloody internal conflict. [24]
March 18, 2013: At least 25 people died when gunmen
attacked a prison, a police station, a bank and a bar in an Eastern Nigerian
town.[25]
March 24, 2013: Twenty-five people were killed in Adamawa
state when attackers blasted a jail, a police station and a bank with bombs,
machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades. [26]
March 28, 2013: Three people, including a soldier, were
injured in multiple blasts in three areas of Maiduguri, with one targeting a
military patrol vehicle. The Joint Task Force (JTF) killed four suspected
militants on in Maiduguri. [27]
March 31, 2013: Nigerian troops killed 14 suspected
members of Boko Haram, in a raid on a building in the northern city of Kano. A
soldier was killed in the raid, and a potential suicide bomber was arrested in
a car laden with explosives. [28]
April 5, 2013: Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan
set up a panel to look into the possibility of granting an amnesty to the
Islamist militant group Boko Haram.[29]
April 6, 2013: Eleven people killed in an attack in
North-eastern Nigeria targeting the deputy governor of Adamawa state.[30]
April 7, 2013: Suspected Islamist militants shot or
hacked to death 11 people in a Northeast Nigerian village, including at a
deputy governor's house. [31]
April 11, 2013: Boko Haram rejected the idea of an
amnesty. [32] Boko Haram stormed a police station and killed
four officers. The Police killed five of the insurgents.[33]
April 22, 2013: Heavy fighting between Nigerian troops
and suspected Boko Haram killed 187 people, including scores of civilians,
while massive blazes left nearly half the town destroyed. The bloodshed in the
remote North-eastern town of Baga also left 77 people injured and likely marks
the single deadliest event in the insurgency of Boko Haram. [34]
April 26, 2013: Boko Haram stormed a police station in
Gashua town and stole nearly $60,000.
Twenty insurgents and five officers died in the operation.[35]
May 1, 2013: Satellite images reveal that 2,275
homes were destroyed during a military raid to hunt down militant Islamists in
the northern Nigerian town of Baga in April. [36]
May 7, 2013: The Nigerian army said that 105
prisoners were freed in the pre-dawn raid in Bama, Borno state. [37]
May 14, 2013: Borno State Ministry of Education
official reported that around 15,000 children in Borno State, have stopped
attending classes since February 2013. Boko Haram extremists continue a wave of
attacks on state schools. Boko Haram has burned or destroyed 50 of the state's
175 schools.[38]
May 18, 2013: Nigeria's military imposed a 24-hour
curfew in parts of a North-eastern city as soldiers pressed on with a campaign
against Boko Haram Islamists that has sent people fleeing from their homes. [41]
May 19, 2013: The Nigerian military said that Boko
Haram militants in the North-east of the country are ‘in disarray’ and leaving
the country in large numbers as a result of its offensive against them. In a
statement, it said 14 enemy fighters had been killed and 20 apprehended.[42]
May 20, 2013: About 120 militant Islamists arrested
in Maiduguri, as they were organising the burial of their commander.[43]
May 22, 2013: Report that tens of thousands of
residents of North-eastern Nigeria’s Borno State fled their homes - thousands
of them into neighbouring Niger and Cameroon - following airstrikes by Nigerian
fighter jets on Boko Haram camps from 15 May. The attacks on Boko Haram camps
in northern parts of Borno close to the borders with Chad, Niger and Cameroon
followed the 14 May declaration of a state of emergency by Nigerian President
Goodluck Jonathan in the North-eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. [44]
June 4, 2013: Nigeria formally declared the Boko
Haram Islamist sect and Ansaru, its suspected offshoot, ‘terrorist’ groups and
issued a law to ban them. The law prescribes a prison term of ‘not less than 20
years’ for anybody who solicits or gives any form of support, including
financial and logistics, to the groups.[45]
June 10, 2013: Boko Haram stormed a neighbourhood in
Maiduguri, killing at least 11 people with weapons hidden in a coffin. [46]
June 17, 2013: Suspected Islamist extremists
attacked a secondary school and military checkpoint in Nigeria's northeast,
leaving 11 people dead including seven students.[47]
June
19, 2013: Suspected
Islamists shot dead nine students as they sat an examination in an attack on a
private school in Maiduguri.[48]
July 6, 2013: Boko Haram attacked a secondary school in Yobe
state,
killing 42 people, many of whom were students, a medical worker but a military
spokesman said 20 students and one teacher were killed in the dawn attack at
Yobe state.[49]
July 7, 2013: Secondary schools were ordered to
close across Yobe after a massacre in which suspected Islamist extremists
killed 22 students and torched their school.[50]
July 9, 2013: Four alleged members of the
Islamist Boko Haram group have been sentenced to life for their role in bomb
attacks that killed 19 people. They were found guilty of masterminding and
carrying out attacks on an electoral commission office and a church in 2012.
These are the heaviest sentences given to any Boko Haram suspects.[51]
July 24, 2013: Vigilante groups formed in the
northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri to fight the militant Islamist group Boko
Haram, a move welcomed by the military as it battles to quell the insurgency,
as the BBC's Will Ross reports. [52]
July 29, 2013: The army and vigilantes said that at
least 20 villagers in Nigeria were killed after clashes between a vigilante
force and militant Islamists. According to the pro-government vigilantes, they
stormed the northern village of Dawashe on Saturday to track down militants who
retaliated with heavy firepower, killing civilians.[53]
July 30, 2013: Bomb blasts that ripped through
a mainly Christian area of Sabon Gari area of Kano, killed 24 people.[54] At least 28 people were killed in a series of
explosions that targeted bars in the city of Kano.[55]
August 5, 2013: The army said on Monday that clashes
between Nigeria's military and Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in two
north-eastern towns have left at least 35 people dead, most of them
insurgents. A clash in the town of Bama
sparked by an attack on a police base ‘led to the death of one policeman and 17
Boko Haram terrorists.[56]
August 6, 2013: Gunfire and explosions shook
Potiskum while soldiers slapped a
round-the-clock curfew on another in the region hit by waves of insurgent
attacks.[57]
August 2013: At least 44 worshippers were
shot dead at a mosque in Borno state. The attack occurred in the town of
Konduga, 35km (22 miles) from the state capital, Maiduguri. Twelve civilians
were killed at Ngom village, closer to Maiduguri.[58]
August 14, 2013: At least 50 civilians were killed and
dozens more injured in a series of weekend attacks in north-eastern Nigeria by
the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram.[59]
Nigeria's military said it has killed the second-in-command of the Islamist
militant group Boko Haram.[60]
August 20, 2013: Nigeria's military said that Abubakar
Shekau, the leader of militant Islamist group Boko Haram, may have died of a
gun-shot wound sustained during an assault by government forces on his forest
hide-out.[61]
August 23, 2013: Suspected Islamist militants from the
Boko Haram group killed at least 35
people in the village of Demba in Borno state. The gunmen raided after locals
refused to co-operate with them.[62]
August 27, 2013: Boko
Haram insurgents killed 24 people in revenge against vigilantes.18 people were
killed in the town of Bama and 6 people were killed in Damasak.[63]
September 1, 2013: At least 38 people were killed in weekend
attacks in Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, and another 34 missing.[64]
September 5, 2013: Boko Haram Islamists stormed the town of
Gajiran opening fire in a market and killed 15 people.[65]
September 6, 2013: Nigeria's military on Friday killed 50
Boko Haram Islamists in an operation launched in response to an insurgent
attack on civilians in Gajiran.[66]
September 9, 2013: The majority of the 18 people who died in
clashes between suspected Boko Haram fighters and a vigilante group in Borno
State the vigilante members who had tried to defend the town of Benisheik
against the Islamist militants.[67]
September 11, 2013: Nigerian troops launched an air strike and
later killed 10 suspected members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and
clashed with fleeing terrorists
following the destruction of two alleged Boko Haram camps in the Konduga
area of Borno state.[68]
September 18, 2013: A military strike on a Boko Haram camp in
Maiduguri left about 150 Islamists and 16 soldiers dead.[69]
September 19, 2013: At least 87 people were killed in an attack by
Boko Haram militants in Borno state. Disguised in military uniforms, the
militants set up checkpoints outside the town of Benisheik and shot dead those
trying to escape.[70]
September 20, 2013: A cell of suspected Islamist militants opened
fire on security forces in Nigeria's capital Abuja. The clash occurred at about
03:00 local time after a tip-off about the location of a suspected Boko Haram
weapons cache.[71]
September 21, 2013: Islamist Boko Haram militants killed 159 people
in two roadside attacks in northeast Nigeria, a sign that a four-month-old army
offensive has yet to stabilise the region.[72]
2014
February 12, 2014: The Boko Haram insurgents attack Residents
of Konduga and neighbouring Mailari killed 39 people.
February 19, 2014: Over
400 Boko Haram insurgents stormed Rann village only to meet villagers
ready for them this time. The civilian villagers pounced on the terrorists with
mere rocks, bows and arrows, local Dane guns, swords and “charms,” The
battle raged till the sun came up and ended with the civilians killing over 200
Boko Haram terrorists, capturing several prisoners and recovering several of
their vehicles.
February 25, 2014: Fifty-nine students were killed at the
Federal Government College of Buni Yadi in Yobe State,
Nigeria. All
of the students killed were males. The twenty-four buildings of the school were
also burned down as a result of the attack.
March 14, 2014: Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members
have reportedly attacked the Giwa Barracks, one of the strategic military
barracks in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri at about 7.30am on Friday.
April 10, 2014: Boko haram attack
residents of Rann village and almost 200 suspected members of the Boko Haram were
killed by residents of Rann, the headquarters of Kala-Balge local
government area in north eastern part of Borno State.
April 10-11, 2014: Dikwa: No fewer than 210
persons, including UTME candidates were killed in multiple attacks orchestrated
by members of the Boko Haram sect in the volatile Borno State between Thursday
and Friday.
April 12, 2014: Boko Haram kills
JAMB candidates, several others in multiple attacks. No fewer than 210 persons,
including UTME candidates were killed in multiple attacks orchestrated by
members of the Boko Haram sect in the volatile Borno State between Thursday and
Friday. The JAMB candidates who lost their lives in the attacks were said to be
on their way to various exams centers at Dikwa, Kala Balge, Gambulga and Gwoza
towns.
April 14, 2014: Nyanya Bomb Blast: at about 6:45am,
two bombs exploded at a crowded bus station 8 km southwest of central Abuja, Nigeria, killing
at least 88 people and injuring at least 200
April 14–15, 2014: Approximately 276 female students were
kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State,
Nigeria.
May 1, 2014: Second explosion in Nyanya Motor
Park: a car
bomb exploded in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, Nigeria. The
explosion killed at least 19 people and injured at least 60.[73]
May 2, 2014: No fewer than 10
commuters and motorists were slaughtered by suspected Boko Haram terrorists
along Maiduguri- Beneshiek- Damaturu road, while about 7 vehicles abandoned by
their occupants were seized.
May 5, 2014: Boko Haram
militants attacked the twin towns of Gamboru and Ngala in Borno State,
Nigeria. At least 300 residents were killed in the 12 hour attack, and the town
was largely destroyed.[74]
Most of the survivors fled to neighbouring Cameroon.
May 6, 2014: Eight teenage
girls, between the ages of 12 to 15 were taken by suspected Boko Haram
insurgents in Warabe village of Gwoza Local government area of Borno.
May 16, 2014: Boko Haram
militants attacked a Nigerian army unit in Izge a township near Gwoza, Borno
State. The militants arrived the area in two pick up vans shot and killed
nine soldiers and made away with 8 military vehicles and 200 powerful bombs.
May 17, 2014: Boko Haram attack a
local market with a rocket in Borno killing more than 20 people and leaving
many injured.
May 18, 2014: The explosion which
occurred along the Hausa/Igbo Road in the Sabon Gari area of Kano left at least
10 dead and many injured.
May 20, 2014 Twin bomb explosion rocked Terminus Market, Jos, capital of Plateau
State, killing 118 people and leaving many injured.[75]
May 21, 2014 Boko
Haram attack Alagamo village near Chibok leaving 17 people dead
May 24, 2014 A bomb
explosion leaving 4 including the bomber dead, this blast was targeted at
football fans watching the European Champions League final between Real Madrid
and Atletico Madrid.
May 26, 2014 Boko
Haram stormed Army base firing on soldiers, razing the local police station. At
least 24 killed in attack by Boko Haram fighters on army base in northeast town
of Buni Yadi, Yobe State stormed the remote town at 8:00pm (1900 GMT) on
Monday, firing first on soldiers manning a checkpoint and razing the local
police station.
May 30, 2014 Gunmen
shot dead the Emir of Gwoza, Shehu Mustapha Idris Timta, in his car. Two other
emirs, the Emir of Askira, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibn Muhammadu Askirama and Emir of
Uba, Alhaji Ali Ibn Ismaila Mamza, who were also in the convoy that was
attacked in north-eastern Borno state, escaped unhurt.
June 1, 2014 At least 40 were killed when a
bomb explodes at a football stadium in Mubi in the north-east of the country
shortly after a match and leaving over 19 persons injured. The attack is blamed
on Boko Haram. [76]
June 2, 2014 On June 2, 2014, in an event
that has been called the Gwoza Massacre, "No fewer than 300 villagers
were reportedly killed in three communities around Gwoza local
government area of Borno State".[77]
June 17, 2014 21 football fans are killed when a
bomb rips through the viewing centre where they are watching the World Cup in
Damaturu, northern Nigeria.
June 23–24 2014 Gunmen attacked a number of villages in Kaduna
State, killing around 150 people. The attack was blamed on Fulani tribesmen.[78]
June 24, 2014 Local official’s report 30 killed
and more than 60 women kidnapped in a series of attacks over several days in
Borno state, although the Nigerian government denies the abductions.[79]
June 25, 2014 At least 22 people are killed and
17 injured in a bombing at a crowded shopping centre in the centre of Abuja.
The attack — the third on the city in three months — is blamed on Boko Haram. [80]
{[81]}
June 25, 2014 A huge explosion rocked the Apapa
port district of Lagos, which the authorities blamed on a cooking gas
explosion, with no casualties. However Boko Haram group has claimed the
responsibility.
June 29, 2014 Suspected Boko Haram gunmen riding
on motorcycles target a number of churches during Sunday mass, opening fire on
worshippers and chasing them into the bush. Witnesses fear that dozens were
killed.
June 30, 2014 A van
laden with improvised explosive devices and charcoal exploded at Monday market
in Maiduguri killed at least 15 people number of casualties not specified.
July 14, 2014 Gunmen
suspected to be members of the Boko Haram on Saturday evening raided a Borno
village, killing several persons. They then bombed a bridge along the Biu -
Maiduguri road highway, witnesses and security sources have said.
July 15, 2014 Boko
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