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Vice President Kashim Shettima on Thursday condemned in strong terms the bomb explosion that claimed no fewer than five lives and left several others injured at a mosque in Gamboru Market, Maiduguri, Borno State, describing the attack as a despicable assault on innocent citizens and the peace of the nation.

He disclosed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered an immediate intensification of security operations in Borno State following the incident.

The Guardian earlier reported that the blast occurred around 6:10 p.m. on Wednesday. Although information on the incident remains sketchy, residents told newsmen that many worshippers were either killed or injured after suspected Boko Haram insurgents detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in the mosque.

The suspected blast has already heightened fear among residents, especially the Christian community preparing for the 2025 Christmas celebration.

According to Muhammad Abdullahi, who witnessed the incident, the blast occurred in the middle of congregational prayers, a time when many traders in the busy market gather to worship before returning home.

TheGuardian

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Na your boys handwork na

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According to the statement, the police said “the affected area has been cordoned off to ensure public safety and facilitate emergency operations” shortly after the explosion.

At least five people were killed while 35 others sustained injuries following an explosion at a mosque located within Gamboru Market, Maiduguri, Borno State.

The Borno State Police Command confirmed the incident in a press release on Wednesday, stating that it received “a report of an IED explosion” on December 24, 2025, “at about 1800hrs, at Al-Adum Juma’at Mosque, located within Gamboru Market, Maiduguri, during prayers.”

The press release was signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Nahum Kenneth Daso, on behalf of the Borno State Police Command, and dated December 24, 2025.

According to the statement, the police said “the affected area has been cordoned off to ensure public safety and facilitate emergency operations” shortly after the explosion.

The command disclosed that its response was carried out under the leadership of the Commissioner of Police.

“The Borno State Police Command, under the directive of the Commissioner of Police, CP Naziru Abdulmajid psc, immediately activated a Rescue/Joint Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in collaboration with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), and other relevant security and emergency response agencies,” the statement said.

On the number of casualties, the police stated that “five (5) persons lost their lives, while thirty-five (35) others sustained varying degrees of injuries.”

It added that the injured victims “have been evacuated to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) and the State Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri, for medical treatment.”

The police further said early findings point to a suicide attack.

“Preliminary investigations further suggest that the incident may have been a suicide bombing, based on the recovery of fragments of a suspected suicide vest and witness statements recorded,” the command said, stressing that “investigations are ongoing to establish the exact cause and circumstances.”

The statement also confirmed continued security operations around the scene.

“The Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit is conducting thorough sweeping operations within and around the scene to rule out any secondary devices,” it said.

While addressing public safety concerns, the police said “normalcy has been restored,” adding that “members of the public are advised to remain calm, avoid the affected area, and continue to cooperate with timely information.”

The command assured residents that “further updates will be communicated as investigations progress.”

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According to the statement, the police said “the affected area has been cordoned off to ensure public safety and facilitate emergency operations” shortly after the explosion.

You say you go take care of insecurity not to be in charge of condemning

We dey call dis act as na una hand work so no com cry here. Rip to the dead

Toh

The security operatives should intensify their operations in the region. The terrorists should be smoked out from their hiding places

Could it be the bomb was kept there to be used for an attack at another location, but detonated by accident? I'm just curious.

These people will not mind fo hurt themselves to give impression that muslims are also being attacked. If u dont know this people u are already victim.

This is very sad. May the souls of the departed rest in peace.

No place is safe. But na person wey get life go type.

Playing politics with people's lives

Pure nonsense propaganda

Whenever una ready una go do the right thing in that North..Till then make all of una dey deceive unaself .
Asiwaju just dey pretend with them like that .
Las las everybody go get sense

The alleged kingpin/ sponsor of the same Boko Haram is condemning the attack.

Okay ooh.. ka shi ma wo

See person wey go handle insecurities

Just take a look at the two people running Nigeria, Tinubu and Shit'ma 😂
Chai

bigwig071:
Pure nonsense propaganda

You dey mind them. They're deceiving themselves.

HgAkpobomeEr:
This is very sad. May the souls of the departed rest in peace.

. Why you not handling the Internal Crisis up till now

Shettima na your boys na .

See Shetima look I dey pray may God spare Tinubu life to finish his 8 years in power because if this man I'm looking called Shetima become the president the thing wey this man go do Nigeria ehn... all those losers wey no dey hear word go hear word by force.

These guys are trying so hard to push the narrative that Muslims are also haunted by their terrorist brothers. If your brother attacks you, it is none of my business. It becomes my business when you take your madness to my doorstep.

Diversion strategy. There is no iota of distraction that will divert the attention that we have Christian Genocide in Nigeria.

Can you all do better than just condemning? Show ruthlessness for once. Enough of condemning, sympathizing and all of that

Well done scammers. So they decided to bomb a mosque in other to deceive the world and themselves and the gullible ones that there is no Christian genocide in Nigeria. Using this plot as a decoy. God will surely reward you guys

Laughable, order without result.

Christians were keiled and churches attacked, but shettima never said a thing.

Now, he remembers to talk when it concerns a mosque

SO IT WOULDN'T LOOK LIKE CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE NA WE UNDERSTAND.....MAKE UNA THE PLAY THE POLITICS AND TAKE US AS MU.MU

But why attacking mosque of recent??
No be yesterday Kano own happened

bigpriik:
Na your boys handwork na

Abi oh. They were probably hiding there to assemble the IED they wanted to detonate in a church on Christmas day but God reversed it on them instead!

Precambrian111:
SO IT WOULDN'T LOOK LIKE CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE NA WE UNDERSTAND.....MAKE UNA THE PLAY THE POLITICS AND TAKE US AS MU.MU

They were arranging the bomb to use on a church on Christmas, the thing come explode in their faces. Our prayers are answered

Nigerian police execute sect leader


Thu 30 Jul 2009
Thursday 30 July 2009
A building which allegedly housed an Islamic sect in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri

Rooted out: A building allegedly used by the sect burns in the city of Maiduguri (AFP)
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The leader of a radical Islamic sect in northern Nigeria has been shot dead in police detention hours after being captured by the security forces, a police spokesman says.

Security forces captured radical preacher Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of a militant Islamic sect responsible for days of unrest which have killed more than 180 people and displaced thousands.

A Reuters reporter saw Yusuf at a military barracks in the northern city of Maiduguri after his capture. Yusuf had no visible injuries and was standing up. He was later transferred to the city's police headquarters, where he was killed.

"He has been killed. You can come and see his body at the state police command headquarters," said Isa Azare, spokesman for the police command in the northern city of Maiduguri.

Another policeman said Yusuf "pleaded for mercy and forgiveness before he was shot".

Footage of his bullet-riddled body was shown on state television.

Yusuf, whose Boko Haram sect wants a wider adoption of sharia (Islamic law) across Nigeria, was seized after a manhunt involving military helicopters and armed police.

Army and police earlier battled the remnants of his sect in Maiduguri after shelling his compound.

Bursts of gunfire rang out and helicopters hovered overhead as the security forces went from door to door hunting his followers.

The violence erupted when members of the group were arrested on Sunday in Bauchi state, 400 kilometres south-west of Maiduguri, on suspicion of plotting to attack a police station.

Yusuf's supporters, armed with machetes, knives, home-made hunting rifles and petrol bombs, then went on the rampage in several states across northern Nigeria, attacking churches, police stations, prisons and government buildings.

President Umaru Yar'Adua, on an official visit to Brazil, spoke by telephone with northern governors and urged traditional and religious leaders to use Friday prayers to warn people about the dangers of such sects.

"The president stated that religious groups such as Boko Haram, which seeks to disrupt the peace and security of the Nigerian state, should not be the bride of any true Muslim individual or group," his spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi said.

Nigeria's Muslim umbrella group Jama'atu Nasril Islam has already condemned the violence and backed the security forces.

Boko Haram - which means "Western education is sinful" - is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.

Its members wear long beards and consider anyone not following their strict ideology, whether Christian or Muslim, as infidels.

Its views are not espoused by the majority of Nigeria's Muslim population, the largest in sub-Saharan Africa.



National defence spokesman Colonel Mohammed Yerima said there would be a military "show of force" on Friday to reassure civilians they would be protected.

Maiduguri has borne the brunt of the fighting. Local residents said they were still too afraid to venture out despite assurances from the authorities.

"This city is like a battlefield," said Muhammed Yakubu, a local journalist and a resident of Maiduguri.

Yar'Adua has said intelligence agencies had been tracking the group for years and that its members were procuring arms and learning to make bombs to force their views on Nigerians.

He ordered the security forces to take all necessary action to "contain them once and for all".

Police in Maiduguri said the security forces had killed 90 sect members on Monday alone. Eight police officers, three prison officials and two soldiers were also killed.

In neighbouring Yobe state, police said they had recovered the bodies of 33 sect members after a gun battle near the town of Potiskum on Wednesday.

More than 50 people were killed in the initial fighting in Bauchi on Sunday.

Police said they freed 95 women and children on Wednesday being held by the sect in Maiduguri.

Its members believe their wives should not be seen by other men and their children should receive only a Koranic education.

The violence in the north is not connected to unrest in the Niger Delta in the south, where militant attacks have prevented Nigeria from pumping much above two-thirds of its oil capacity. The delta's main militant group has condemned the violence.
- Reuters