Overview
- An explosion struck the Al-Adum Juma'at Mosque in Maiduguri’s Gamboru Market around 6 p.m. during Maghrib prayers.
- Police confirmed five fatalities and 35 injured, with casualties taken to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and the State Specialist Hospital.
- Explosive ordnance teams cordoned off the site and are conducting sweeping operations for secondary devices.
- No group has claimed responsibility, as authorities frame the attack within the long-running Boko Haram and ISWAP insurgency after a period of relative calm in the city.
- Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum condemned the attack and urged heightened vigilance at places of worship during the festive period.