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Blast hits mosque during evening prayers in Nigeria’s Maiduguri, witness says

by | Dec 24, 2025 | JPost | 0 comments

A boy stands in the courtyard of the Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir Mosque on Zinariya hills, in Jos, on February 28, 2025. (photo credit: OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images)
The blast occurred in Maiduguri, a city that has been at the heart of an Islamist insurgency waged by Boko Haram and its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province, for nearly two decades.