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Nigeria governor pleads for military's help after 30 killed

by Associated Press
| February 11, 2020 2:30 AM

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — The governor of Nigeria's Borno state has urged the military to better defend a town where suspected Islamic extremists killed more than 30 people who had been left to sleep in their cars over the weekend after being locked outside the city gate.

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