{"id":80833,"date":"2025-12-24T20:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80833"},"modified":"2025-12-24T20:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:19:54","slug":"explosion-rocks-mosque-in-maiduguri-casualties-feared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/24\/explosion-rocks-mosque-in-maiduguri-casualties-feared\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion Rocks Mosque in Maiduguri, Casualties Feared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An explosion suspected to have been caused by Boko Haram insurgents has rocked a Juma\u2019at Mosque in Gamboru Ward, near the Customs area of Maiduguri, Borno State capital.<\/p>\n<p>The blast occurred around 6:10 p.m. on Wednesday while worshippers were observing the Maghrib prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Although official casualty figures were yet to be confirmed, residents told Channels Television that several worshippers were feared killed or injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP Nahum Daso, said he could not immediately confirm the blast but was heading to the scene for assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has heightened fear among residents, particularly as communities prepare for the 2025 Christmas celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Security operatives have since cordoned off the area to prevent further casualties and enable preliminary investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu An explosion suspected to have been caused by Boko Haram insurgents has rocked a Juma\u2019at Mosque in Gamboru Ward, near the Customs area of Maiduguri, Borno State capital. The blast occurred around 6:10 p.m. on Wednesday while worshippers were observing the Maghrib prayer. Although official casualty figures were yet to be confirmed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80835,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80833\/revisions\/80835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}