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                    [Title] => Boko Haram attacks northeast Nigerian city, many killed
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Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri for the first time in months Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said. At least 15 people were killed but the toll was feared many times higher.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-27 18:15:14 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20151228/nigeria-boy-bomber.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1507039 [Title] => Official: Multiple bomb blasts in Nigerian capital, 15 dead [Summary] =>

Several bombs in two locations of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, killed at least 15 people, the National Emergency Management Agency said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-03 17:10:16 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1438816 [Title] => At least 25 killed in election day attack by Boko Haram in Nigeria [Summary] =>

At least 25 people were killed in an attack suspected to be a perpetration of Boko Haram on a community in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno early Saturday, the same day a crucial presidential election was held, an official of the West African country said.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-28 21:16:36 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1431381 [Title] => Nigeria's Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State [Summary] =>

Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram Islamic extremists have pledged formal allegiance to the Islamic State group in a message allegedly by the Nigerian insurgent leader posted on Twitter and reported by the SITE Intelligence monitoring service.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-08 07:04:50 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1419360 [Title] => Extremists attack biggest city in northeast Nigeria [Summary] =>

Nigerian troops yesterday repelled Islamic extremists who attacked from four fronts on Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeast Nigeria, with several civilians killed by aerial bombs and grenades and mortar shells on the ground.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-02 06:27:20 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1347504 [AuthorName] => Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1405142 [Title] => Extremists in Nigeria lining up elderly and shooting them [Summary] =>

Islamic extremists in northeast Nigeria are turning their guns on elderly people, killing more than 50 this week in a new tactic that has instilled more fear in areas the militants call an Islamic caliphate.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-21 03:51:42 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1347497 [AuthorName] => Haruna Umar [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1397197 [Title] => Police: Blasts at mosque in Nigeria kill 35 people [Summary] =>

Multiple explosions tore through the central mosque in Nigeria's second-largest city on Friday, killing 35 people, police said.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-29 09:32:53 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1357270 [AuthorName] => Ibrahim Garba and Chika Oduah [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1397188 [Title] => Police: Blasts at mosque in Nigeria kill 35 people [Summary] =>

Multiple explosions tore through the central mosque in Nigeria's second-largest city on Friday, killing 35 people, police said.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-29 04:27:31 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1396427 [Title] => 2 teen female bombers kill more than 40 in Nigeria [Summary] =>

The teenage girls entered the busy marketplace separately Tuesday, their vests of explosives hidden beneath their full hijabs.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-27 02:09:05 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1347497 [AuthorName] => Haruna Umar [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1366754 [Title] => Islamic extremists grab towns in northeast Nigeria [Summary] =>

Nigeria's Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, has seized more towns along Nigeria's northeastern border with Cameroon and is adopting a strategy of encouraging civilians to stay, witnesses said yesterday, as the militants pursue their new aim to carve out an "Islamic caliphate" under their black and white flag.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-08 05:41:55 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1357257 [AuthorName] => Ibrahim Abdulaziz and Michelle Faul [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) ) )
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