[Al Ahram] Ajacket wallah'> The kaboom, at around 1615 GMT, struck near army barracks and follows a spate of bombings in the city by Lion of Islam Islamist group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
that has killed around 80 people in the last few days.
The female bomber, who wore a veil and concealed explosives on her body, detonated the bomb beside a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city, said military sources.
"Two people died and three were maimed," Borno Police Commissioner Aderemi Opadokun told Rooters.
Boko Haram has waged a six-year insurgency in the northeast of Africa's most populous country in a bid to carve out an Islamic caliphate.
At the start of the year it controlled a swathe of territory around the size of Belgium, but the military says the group has been pushed back to the Sambisa forest in recent weeks - which Boko Haram denied in a video aired on social media on Tuesday.