Boko Haram in Brief

Boko Haram ("Western education is forbidden"), officially called Wilāyat al Sūdān al Gharbī (Arabic: ولاية السودان الغربي‎, (Islamic State's) West Africa Province, ISWAP), and formerly called Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād' (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد‎, "Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad")

Active	2002–present

Ideology	Wahhabism Salafism Islamic fundamentalism

Fresh Bomb Blast Rocks Zaria in Kaduna State

Bomb explosion  rocked Sabon Gari local government secretariat‎ of Kaduna state.

‎The bomb was said to have exploded where the local government staff where undergoing the workers verification exercise.

There has been no casualty figures yet but many people were said to have been killed with several others injured.

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Another 25 Persons Killed, 32 Others Injured in Zaria Latest Explosion

No fewer than 25 people lost their lives in an explosion that rocked Zaria, Kaduna state yesterday.

About Thirty Two others sustained various degree of injuries and were rushed to the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika for treatment.

The bomb was said to have exploded at about 9:45 am yesterday at the secretariat of Sabon Gari Local Government where hundreds of  people had gathered for the workers verification exercise being embarked upon by the state government.

Eye witness said the bomb exploded in the middle of the crowd that had gathered at the council secretariat for the exercise.