Shettima Receives Bags Of Rice Donation On Behalf Of IDPS

Governor of Borno state, Kassim Shettima and the Chief of Army staff, Tukur Buratai recieved donations of food and clothing from the Nigerian customs service on behalf of the Bakassi IDPs in the state.

The Midwife Who Fled Boko Haram

Despite losing some of her own children during an attack, Dada Nguru is keeping other women and their babies alive.

Dada Nguru was pregnant when she fled a Boko Haram attack on her village. She helped other fleeing women give birth on the roadside

Outside a zinc-roofed shack on the fringes of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, Dada Nguru, a self-taught midwife, hangs a large sugar sack that has been ripped open out to dry. Earlier that day, she had laid a woman on it as she delivered her baby boy.

Hours later, a saline bag still hangs from the small open window, the only source of light in the cramped single room that is heady with the smell of sweat.

Nguru's children sleep in this room, the same room that the women come to give birth in. For more than a year, this ramshackle building in the suburb of Kabusa has been their home - and the midwife's delivery room.

Her one-year-old son, Muhammadu, nursing at her breast beneath the folds of her flowing red abaya, was still in her belly when she fled her home in the town of Gwoza, in the northeastern state of Borno, and arrived here.

"I came pregnant and gave birth to him here," she says, adding: "We left because of Boko Haram."

Boko Haram Child Suicide Bomber Kills Six in Borno

A child suicide bomber detonated his explosives, killing himself, two other bombers and six people in Nigeria’s northeast, in the latest bloodshed blamed on Boko Haram Islamist group, the army said on Monday.

The attack in Beninsheikh in Borno state happened around 8.30 pm on Sunday when three suspected suicide bombers aged between 10 and 15 years, were stopped for security screening by civilian vigilantes in the area, Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement.

He said one of the bombers, who was strapped with explosives, detonated the bomb, causing the “death of nine people while 24 others sustained various degrees of injuries.”

PHOTOS| Baby Disfigured By Boko Haram, Goes For Surgery (Viewer Discretion)

A baby named Aisha who survived severe burns after Boko Haram terrorists attacked her village in Maiduguri, Borno state

She was in her room while her mother was in the toilet when Boko Haram set their house on fire. She lost all fingers on her left hand and also lost an ear in the attack. Her face was burnt, with severe burns on her legs. Baby Aisha remained critically ill for a long time at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.

These new photos show baby Aisha all set this morning for her 1st phase of reconstructive surgery

Source: The Breaking Times News