Two female suicide bombers struck a market in the northeast Nigerian state of Adamawa on Monday, an army official said, with a local community leader giving a toll of at least 30 killed.

The military chief in Adamawa stateBrigadier-General Victor Ezugwu,

confirmed the twin suicide blasts in
the town of Madagali but did not
give a toll.
Madagali sits close to the border of
Boko Haram stronghold Borno state
and has been repeatedly attacked by
the jihadists in their quest to
establish an independent Islamic
State in Africa's most populous
nation.
"The two female bombers killed at
least 30 people in the twin blasts in
the market," Maina Ularamu, a
community leader and former
chairman of Madagali local
government, told AFP.
In August last year, Boko Haram
seized Madagali, prompting an
exodus of residents to the state
capital of Yola.
Since then, the Nigerian military has
clawed back Madagali in a series of
military victories against the Islamist
group, winning territory across Borno,
Adawama and Yobe states.
In a defiant show of strength, Boko
Haram rebels have staged a wave of
attacks in the final days before
Nigerian President Muhammadu
Buhari
's self-imposed deadline to
exterminate the group expires on
December 31.
Between Sunday and Monday
morning the militants launched
suicide and gun attacks on the key
northeast city of Maiduguri in Borno
state, killing 22 people and injuring
scores of others.
Earlier this week, Buhari had said the
Nigerian government had "technically"
defeated Boko Haram and reduced
their capacity to attack, yet the latest
bloodshed the militants remain
capable of causing mass carnage.