About 30 dead in Maiduguri bombing

No less than 30 persons have been killed and a few others harmed in a bomb blast that happened in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Tuesday.
Channels TV reports that the bomb was said to been disguised under a butchers table in a meat market.

State House report on GEJ's visit to Maiduguri

Read the State House press release below..

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan undertook a surprise visit to Maiduguri Thursday on the occasion of Nigeria’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day to meet with officers and men of the Armed Forces currently in the frontline of the war against terrorism and insurgency in the country. 

Accompanied by the Chief of Defence Staff, Service Chiefs, the National Security Adviser and the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, President Jonathan visited officers and men of the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army at Maimalari Cantonment in Maiduguri to thank them for their patriotic and courageous service to the nation.