Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, has deployed about six hundred personnel to various worship centres in Maiduguri to assure worshippers of their safety.

According to the corps, the deployment is part of efforts to curtail suspected suicide bomb attacks by Boko Haram at worship centres, especially during the month of Ramadan.

Its Borno State Commandant, Ibrahim Abdullahi, said the team included men of the anti-riot squad, bomb detection and disposal unit as well as intelligence and detective unit.

He said the command had also increased its surveillance at commercial centres, markets, motor parks, amusement parks and shopping malls in the state capital to ensure protection of the populace.

Abdullahi said the command had also increased its surveillance at commercial centres, markets, motor parks, amusement parks and shopping malls in the state capital to ensure protection of the populace.