Fifty inmates were on Sunday set free by unknown gunmen in a raid on Koton Karfe Prison,Lokoja, in the central Nigerian state of Kogi, Police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu has revealed.
Ojukuwu said the gunmen were armed with dynamite.
The Koton Karfe prison was attacked by Boko Haram insurgents in 2012, and a total of 119 inmates escaped.
It was not clear whether the latest attack was also carried out by the Boko Haram insurgents. But in the latest video of the insurgents released on Friday, Abubakar Shekau warned of more attacks on Nigerian targets, after recent bombing in Bauchi and Gombe.
“There is no any ceasefire or dialogue with anyone instead it is a war with beating and killings, and guns that we are hungry for like food with Maggi cubes. We are on course; our focus and determination is to see that only Quran is being use in running the world, with Allah this is what we put ahead of us.”, Shekau said.