Nigeria to Deploy 3,000 Policemen to Restive Northeast

The Nigerian government has concluded arrangement to deploy some 3,000 policemen to the restive northeast region, a spokesperson said on Thursday.

Olabisi Kolawole, the national police spokesperson, who disclosed this in a statement made available to Xinhua, said the police authority has deployed the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in-charge of Operations, Sotonye Wakama, to lead a team of intelligence officers to the northeast on needs assessment.

The step was preparatory to the deployment of 3,000 policemen to liberated areas in the zone and restoration of civil authority, she said.

3 YOUNG SUICIDE BOMBERS KILL 6 IN NORTHEAST

Three young suicide bombers set off explosions that killed six others and injured at least 24 people in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, a Nigerian army spokesman said Monday.

The attack Sunday in Benisheikh came as Nigeria's army launched an operation against two Boko Haram camps in the state that killed at least 12 militants, said army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman.

Three suspected suicide bombers between the ages of 10 and 15 years old were spotted by a civilian group set up to fight Boko Haram as the young bombers approached a security checkpoint late Sunday, said Usman. The checkpoint was run by a local group of residents fighting the insurgency is known as the Civilian Joint Task Force.

Bombings Kill At Least 30 In Northeastern Nigeria

Four women suicide bombers blew themselves up early Friday when challenged by soldiers as they tried to enter Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing at least 18 people and themselves, civilian defense fighters, the National Emergency Management Agency and witnesses said.

The explosions happened at dawn Friday, just hours after two bombs exploded near a mosque in Maiduguri, killing at least 30 people.

The agency’s northeast Nigeria coordinator, Muhammed Kanar, said 20 people were wounded in that earlier attack, some critically. Boko Haram Islamic extremists are suspected of being behind the attack.

The series of suicide bomb attacks comes even as President Muhammadu Buhari says that he expects the ‘‘final routing of Boko Haram as an organized fighting force’’ by year’s end.