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The Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, has claimed responsibility for a car bomb explosion that killed about four people and injured several others in the Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State. The attack was the seventh to be claimed by the group in the state in the last eight months. The explosion rocked a community in the local government area last Thursday.

The Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, has confirmed that it carried out an attack on a church in Kogi State. The attack was the sixth to be claimed by the group in the state in the last six months. SaharaReporters had earlier reported today that gunmen on Sunday invaded a Celestial Church, Blood of Jesus Parish in Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State, killing two persons and injuring several others.

Nigeria’s secret police, Department of State Services has arrested a high-profile Boko Haram member in Ogun State, South-West Nigeria, according to a report by Daily Trust. The suspected terrorist who relocated to the state from Katsina, President Muhammadu Buhari’s home state, was apprehended in the Ijaiye area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. It was learnt that following the relocation of the high-profile terror suspect to Ogun, he took up a security job and had been gathering intelligence in readiness for terrorist attacks in the South-West region.

The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), William Ovye Aya, disclosed this in a statement on Friday.

ISWAP in a statement said two Nigerian government vehicles were burnt by “soldiers of the caliphate and then returned to their positions”.