Many residents have been feared killed as bombs hit Maiduguri, Borno capital yesterday.
Col. Sani Usman, Army spokesman confirmed the attack.
Residents of the area said a suicide bomber strolled into a mosque at Molai, on the outskirts of the city centre at about 6.30p.m. and detonated explosive devices, killing many shortly before nightfall Muslim prayers (Isha’a) .
“Many people were affected and killed in the small market near the area. There were also those selling akara (bean cake) and some other things few metres away,” Usman Mohammed, a resident of the area told Daily Sun on phone.
Details of the blast was sketchy as at press time as rescue operation was still going on at the scene.
A military source and member of the state-backed youth vigilante group (Civilian JTF) said many people were killed and injured.
I was an IDP for 6 months, says SGF
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, sensationally revealed yesterday how he was an internally displaced person (IDP) for six months in 2014.
Lawal, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the 21st Nigerian Economic Summit (NES) yesterday, said he lost his home, farmland and cattle to insurgency when Boko Haram struck in Adamawa.
Speaking on economy and security, Lawal said: “Five local governments in the northern senatorial district (of Adamawa) were completely taken over by insurgents. Two local governments in the central senatorial district mine and another one were completely taken over by insurgents. My house was the headquarters of one of the Amir or whatever they call themselves. So for six months, I was an IDP.
“Within that period, four people, my younger ones and others were on admission at the hospital in Mubi, the next big town to my own, where there’s some presence of general hospital.
“When Boko Haram entered Mubi, all the people had to evacuate the hospital and run into the mountains no matter the degree of sickness.”
He also spoke about his brother’s predicament, and the need to fix security and economic issues in the North-East. “My younger brother whose children were in that hospital, was visiting; he had to evacuate. For two weeks, we didn’t know where they were, because they ran into the mountains. “The telephones, the base stations had been blown by Boko Haram. In any case, the battery had run out of the telephones. We didn’t know whether they were eating or whether they were dead. We didn’t know where they were.
“The total number of cattle in my village (where) everybody was a livestock keeper was 385. When people had to run for their lives, the last thing they would think about is cow, goats and chickens.
“When we eventually recovered our land and homes, we didn’t know where those things were. We ran away in October and November, the harvest season.”
He argued that for the North-East, economy and security mean the same thing, so they must be fixed together.
Col. Sani Usman, Army spokesman confirmed the attack.
Residents of the area said a suicide bomber strolled into a mosque at Molai, on the outskirts of the city centre at about 6.30p.m. and detonated explosive devices, killing many shortly before nightfall Muslim prayers (Isha’a) .
“Many people were affected and killed in the small market near the area. There were also those selling akara (bean cake) and some other things few metres away,” Usman Mohammed, a resident of the area told Daily Sun on phone.
Details of the blast was sketchy as at press time as rescue operation was still going on at the scene.
A military source and member of the state-backed youth vigilante group (Civilian JTF) said many people were killed and injured.
I was an IDP for 6 months, says SGF
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, sensationally revealed yesterday how he was an internally displaced person (IDP) for six months in 2014.
Lawal, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the 21st Nigerian Economic Summit (NES) yesterday, said he lost his home, farmland and cattle to insurgency when Boko Haram struck in Adamawa.
Speaking on economy and security, Lawal said: “Five local governments in the northern senatorial district (of Adamawa) were completely taken over by insurgents. Two local governments in the central senatorial district mine and another one were completely taken over by insurgents. My house was the headquarters of one of the Amir or whatever they call themselves. So for six months, I was an IDP.
“Within that period, four people, my younger ones and others were on admission at the hospital in Mubi, the next big town to my own, where there’s some presence of general hospital.
“When Boko Haram entered Mubi, all the people had to evacuate the hospital and run into the mountains no matter the degree of sickness.”
He also spoke about his brother’s predicament, and the need to fix security and economic issues in the North-East. “My younger brother whose children were in that hospital, was visiting; he had to evacuate. For two weeks, we didn’t know where they were, because they ran into the mountains. “The telephones, the base stations had been blown by Boko Haram. In any case, the battery had run out of the telephones. We didn’t know whether they were eating or whether they were dead. We didn’t know where they were.
“The total number of cattle in my village (where) everybody was a livestock keeper was 385. When people had to run for their lives, the last thing they would think about is cow, goats and chickens.
“When we eventually recovered our land and homes, we didn’t know where those things were. We ran away in October and November, the harvest season.”
He argued that for the North-East, economy and security mean the same thing, so they must be fixed together.
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