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June 2015 Monguno bombing was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 29 November 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Boko Haram. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

A news item involving Boko Haram was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 5 February 2015.

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Text and/or other creative content from this version of Boko Haram was copied or moved into Boko Haram insurgency with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

The contents of the June 2015 Monguno bombing page were merged into Boko Haram on 16 July 2024. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

This article is written in Nigerian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, travelled, centre) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

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Is this sentence at the end of the fifth paragraph grammatically incorrect or am I just a fool - "However, attacks by Boko Haram have a separate investigation conducted by The Wall Street Journal backed recent claims that Shekau was dead.". If the sentence is there to bring up additional evidence of Shekau's death, I don't know why it starts with 'however, attacks by Boko Haram', which just sounds like the WSJ report has questionable authority and Shekau is in fact alive. I only made this topic because as the last sentence of the introduction, it gave me more questions about the status of Boko Haram than the previous four paragraphs answered. Whatsgoingonwiththelackof (talk) 04:00, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am new to the community, but the use of graphic images embedded in this article seems inappropriate. I don't think they add any value, and they make the article less accessible to people with trauma/phobias. Consider removing them or replacing them with less graphic images. This will not diminish the gravity of the topic, I believe. Bovianchovy (talk) 17:31, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]