Nigeria: Two Killed in Abuja Police Headquarters' Bomb Blast
16 June 2011
Two people were reported killed in the suspected bomb blasts that rocked the headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja Thursday.
Confirming the incident to reporters in Abuja Thursday , police spokesman, Olusola Amore, said the explosions which rocked the car park of the force happened at about 11 am.
He said the incident affected over 73 vehicles that were burnt beyond recognition while two lives including the suspected bomber and a civil defence staff were lost to the explosion.
Amore said members of the Boko Haram , the islamic fundamentalist group were being suspected as the brains behind the explosions.
He added that "before now the religious sect had threatened to descend on the police and which is what they have done with the bomb blasts".
While emphasising that the police will get to the root of the matter, the police spokesman said the authorities were on top of the matter.
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Nigerian police headquarters bombed
2011-06-16 14:16
Abuja - A powerful bomb blast struck Nigerian police headquarters in the capital Abuja on Thursday, the police and emergency services said, but the number of casualties was not immediately clear.
"The police force headquarters has been bombed, everywhere is bombed," deputy national police spokesperson Yemi Ajayi told AFP.
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3 children dead in Nigeria bomb blast
2011-06-16 19:24
Kano - A bomb exploded near a church in northern Nigeria Thursday and killed three children, police said, with Islamic militants blamed for a rash of attacks in the area.
"A bomb went off in a house adjoining Eyn church in the town of Damboa, killing three children playing nearby," Borno state police commissioner Mohammed Jinjiri Abubabakar told AFP.
Damboa is about 80km south of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.
"We don't know who was behind the bomb or the extent of damage the explosion has caused," the commissioner said.
The blast came as another stuck the police headquarters in the capital Abuja, killing a policeman.
That attack was blamed on radical Islamists in the Boko Haram group that is active in northern Nigeria.
Boko Haram has been blamed for several bombing in the north, targeting police stations and churches. It has also been accused of shooting dozens of people including policemen, community and religious leaders.
Also known as the Nigerian Taliban, Boko Haram has pushed for the creation of an Islamic state. It launched an uprising in 2009 which was put down by a brutal military assault that left hundreds dead.
At least 14 people, including a church pastor, were killed and 17 others seriously injured in attacks in Maiduguri early this month.
Bomb scare in north Nigeria, no casualties: police
(AP) – 15-06-2011
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Police say a special squad has detonated a bomb near a compound housing local oil workers in Nigeria's restive north.
Kaduna State police spokesman Aminu Lawal said the squad secured the area and safely detonated the bomb Wednesday in the north-central city of Kaduna.
Witness Ishaya Haruna says a watchman guarding the staff quarters of Nigeria's state-run oil company spotted the bomb just before dawn. Haruna says people avoided the area until the bomb was detonated at about 8 a.m.
Police on Tuesday safely detonated another bomb found nearby.
On Monday, a Kaduna court accused a well-known Islamic scholar of conspiring to commit an act of terrorism after a foiled April bomb attack in a Kaduna suburb. Sheikh Muhammad Awwal Albani pleaded not guilty.
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18 killed in recent Nigerian attacks
2011-06-02 12:57
Abuja - A series of blasts in Nigeria at the weekend following the swearing in of President Goodluck Jonathan killed 18 people and hospitalised another 31, state-run relief agency NEMA said on Thursday.
"As the National Emergency Management Agency provides relief materials ... it has confirmed that a total of 18 people died and 31 victims [were] hospitalised over the bomb blasts that occurred on inauguration day," NEMA said in a statement.
It said the blasts occurred on Sunday in some parts of the country, especially in a crowded military barrack in northern city of Bauchi and Zuba at the outskirt of Abuja, the nation's capital.
The weekend blasts struck in several cities, mainly in the north, which was hit by post-poll riots in April that killed more than 800 people.
Two explosions were in the northern city of Zaria, the hometown of Vice President Namadi Sambo.
The deadliest attack was in Bauchi, where three near simultaneous bomb blasts went off at a beer garden inside a military barracks on Sunday night. Officials had previously said 13 people were killed in Bauchi.
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Nigeria Islamists claim deadly bombs
2011-06-01 22:19
Gombe - A man who identified himself as the deputy spokesperson of a radical Muslim sect says they are responsible for blasts in two northern Nigerian cities and one city near the capital that left at least 17 dead.
The BBC's Hausa service said on Tuesday that Abu Zaid told them by telephone that the group was also responsible for the killing on Monday of the brother of the Shehu of Borno, the second-highest Muslim leader in Nigeria.
The Associated Press could not immediately verify these claims.
Multiple blasts hit beer gardens in Bauchi, Zuba and Zaria hours after Nigeria inaugurated its president Sunday.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language, has targeted police and clerics in a string of killings over the last year.
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Bombs kill 10 at Nigerian barracks
2011-05-30 07:46
Abuja - Bomb blasts at a beer garden and eatery at a Nigerian military barracks killed at least 10 people on Sunday hours after President Goodluck Jonathan was inaugurated, an emergency source said.
Three bomb blasts hit a "mammy market" - commonly found at Nigerian military barracks and open to civilians - in the northern city of Bauchi, located in one of the states hard hit by post-poll riots last month.The attacks at the market were caused by "locally made devices", Bauchi state police commissioner Abdulkadir Indabawa said.
Authorities gave varying death tolls as is often the case in Nigeria, with officials frequently seeking to downplay the number of victims.
An emergency source who declined to be named said at least 10 people were killed, calling the incident "devastating", while Indabawa said four were dead and some 20 people wounded.
There was no indication of who was behind the blasts."There were lots of people since it's a Sunday evening," Indabawa said. "People were relaxing, eating and drinking.
The market is inside the barracks."The barracks commander told reporters that the three bombs went off at "exactly 20:00 when people were relaxing." He said two people were killed and seven wounded.
Deadly post-poll riots
"All victims were civilians," said Brigadier General Agbo Robinson. Civilians are allowed into such markets at military barracks.
Bauchi is located several hundred kilometres away from the capital Abuja, where Jonathan was sworn in.In a separate incident in Zuba on the outskirts of Abuja, an explosion hit a beer parlour, causing minor injuries, according to a spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
"NEMA officials report that there was no serious casualty at the beer parlour where it occurred as the three victims took themselves to hospital," said Yushau Shuaib.
Jonathan was sworn in on Sunday following an election seen as the fairest in nearly two decades in Africa's most populous nation, pledging in his inaugural address to transform a divided country hit by deadly post-poll riots.
He took the oath amid extremely tight security, with some 10 000 security personnel deployed, mobile phone services cut and helicopters flying overhead.
The 53-year-old southern Christian comfortably beat his main opponent, ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari from the mainly Muslim north, in the April 16 vote, but three days of rioting followed which killed more than 800 people.
The rioting and massacres spread across the north, with victims hacked, burned or shot to death.
Mobs torched churches and mosques, beat people after pulling them from cars and attacked shops.
Some two dozen African heads of state attended the inauguration at Abuja's Eagle Square.
Twin car bombs occurred near the same venue during October's independence day celebrations, killing at least 12 people.
Major flaws
"Together we'll unite our nation and improve the living standard of all our peoples, whether in the north or in the south, in the east or in the west," Jonathan said in his inaugural address.
"We will not allow anyone to exploit differences in creed or tongue, and set us one against another," he added later, drawing applause from the crowd of several thousand.
Jonathan also spoke of improving Nigeria's woeful electricity supply and unleashing the economic potential of the continent's largest oil producer, but suspicion remains in the north, poorer and less educated than the south.
Many from the region accuse Jonathan's ruling Peoples Democratic Party of vote rigging and reject observers' reports calling the election a step forward for Nigeria despite major flaws still to be addressed.
Jonathan also pledged in his address that he would make a priority of bringing peace to the troubled oil-producing Niger Delta, his home region.
The Niger Delta has seen relative peace after years of unrest thanks to a 2009 amnesty deal, but questions have been raised over how long it can last.
A deadly conflict between Christian and Muslim ethnic groups in the country's middle belt region also continues to simmer, while an Islamist sect has been blamed for dozens of killings in the northeast.
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Nigeria: Bomb Blasts Rock Bauchi
30 May 2011
No fewer than 12 people were killed and over 25 injured in 3 bomb explosions at the Shadawaka Army barracks in Bauchi, yesterday.
The blasts rocked the 23 Artillery Brigade headquarters at about 8.25 p.m yesterday.
The commissioner of Police, Muhammed Indabawa confirmed the casualties.
Major Etete , the Public Relations Officer of the Brigade,also confirmed the explosions.
However, another report says the blasts killed 4persons with 20 injured.
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