Female suicide bomber detonated explosives in Konduga, killing 12 and injuring 18

A five-day coordinated uprising by Boko Haram across four northern states – Bauchi, Borno, Yobe, and Kano – marking the group‘s first major armed rebellion against the Nigerian state. The uprising began on 26 July when about 70 sect members armed with grenades and small arms attacked a police station in Bauchi. The violence rapidly spread to Potiskum (Yobe), Wudil and Danja (Kano), and Maiduguri (Borno), where hundreds of sect members engaged security forces in fierce street battles. Sect leader Mohammed Yusuf, who had publicly vowed to “fight to the death” and declared that democracy and Western education must be destroyed, was captured on 30 July and summarily executed in police custody. The uprising ended with a scorched‑earth military counter‑offensive that left an estimated 1,000 people dead, including about 700 in Maiduguri alone, with many victims shot extrajudicially by security forces in public.

Following a series of heavy territorial losses in early 2015, Boko Haram (formally Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad) sought to boost its legitimacy and recruitment. They released a video titled "The Bay'ah of the Mujahideen of West Africa," pledging loyalty to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. ISIS accepted, designating them as the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).

A violent uprising broke out in the Pantami ward of Gombe after a police detachment moved in to arrest suspected members of the banned Maitatsine ('Yan Tatsine) sect. The sect's suspected leader at that time was a man named Yusufu Adamu. The confrontation quickly escalated into a full-scale armed insurrection, leading to widespread destruction and significant loss of life