Kano News

A female suicide bomber killed five people when she blew herself up in a mosque in northeast Nigeria, in the latest attack blamed on Boko Haram jihadists, local militiamen told AFP.

The UN children's fund said last month that 83 children had been used as suicide bombers this year, four times as many as in all of 2016.

NEMA coordinator Suleiman Mohammed Karim said the accident happened in a remote area of Kebbi state on Wednesday morning.  

Earlier this year, the Nigerian military said it had retaken control of the forest, but there are reports the militants have moved back in.   

Among the wounded are Nigerians working for Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Boko Haram on Sunday released a video of the girls allegedly kidnapped from Chibok in April 2014, showing some who are still alive and claiming others died in air strikes.

At least 30 people have been killed in Boko Haram raids on two villages in northeast Nigeria, vigilantes told AFP Saturday.

Gunmen suspected to be ethnic Fulani herders have killed a policeman and 19 civilians in attacks on four farming communities in Nigeria`s northeastern Adamawa state, the police said Monday.

Most of the victims were slaughtered and most of the wounded had suffered machete cuts.

The death toll in a suicide bombing on a Shia Muslim procession near the northern Nigerian city of Kano has risen to 22 after one more person was confirmed dead, one of the organisers said Saturday. 

A suicide bomber on Friday blew himself up among crowds in a Shia Muslim procession outside the northeast Nigerian city of Kano, organisers told AFP. 

Two young female suicide bombers, including one thought to be aged just 11, killed 15 people at a busy mobile phone market in Kano, northeast Nigeria, police said on Wednesday.