Suspected suicide bombers kill at least 23, injure over 100 in Maiduguri, Nigeria
A multiple suspected suicide bombing attacks in Maiduguri, north-eastern Nigeria, have killed at least 23 people and injured over a hundred others.
According to authorities, the explosions went off at the post office and market areas, as well as the entrance to the University of Maiduguri teaching hospital, on Monday evening.
At the height of the Boko Haram insurgency, when Maiduguri was a conflict hotspot, the post office and market areas were often regular targets.
58 people were killed and more than 140 others injured in four separate suicide attacks ten years ago, including in both locations.
Maiduguri has however in recent years been reputed for relative calm as insurgency was pushed to its forest belts.
The recent attacks are coming in the wake of an attack on a military post on the outskirts of the city on Sunday night.
Nigerian authorities have fingered Boko Haram in the bombings. Sani Uba, a military spokesman disclosed in a statement:
“The cowardly attacks targeted crowded public areas in an attempt by the terrorists to inflict mass casualties and create panic within the metropolis.”
Boko Haram and the Islamic West Africa Province (ISWAP) have killed over 2 million people and displaced hundreds of thousands of others in the region, all in an attempt to achieve its goal of establishing an Islamic caliphate.
In April 2025, the Governor of Borno State Babagana Zulum, raised the alarm that the jihadists were staging a comeback. His warning, which led to an altercation with federal authorities seemed not to have been properly heeded, according to commentators and stakeholders.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, who is currently on a state visit to the UK, said on Tuesday morning that he had directed security chiefs to relocate to Maiduguri “to take charge of the situation, locate them, confront them and completely defeat them”.
