Updates: 91 killed in separate Boko Haram attacks in Borno

91 killed in separate Boko Haram attacks in Borno Bomb explosion rocks central Maiduguri 91 killed in separate Boko Haram attacks in Borno
Maiduguri Blast
Bomb Blast Attack
Maiduguri Blast


At least 39 persons were killed on Saturday night in the Borno state village of Mainok, 60km away from Maiduguri, the state capital, where a twin blast had killed at least 52 on the same day, security sources and witnesses said.
An officer at the Department Security Service, who asked not to be quoted as he was not authorized to speak said the attack on Mainok also left the farming community completely razed down.
Mansur Buba, a commercial cab driver in Mainok said he participated Sunday afternoon in the burial of those killed in the attack.
“I was so lucky to escape the attack because I had to convey passengers to Maiduguri and pass the night there; the attackers arrived Mainok less than an hour after I left, but sadly some of my cousins were not lucky. The gunmen rounded up the village and began to shoot, setting fire on buildings. Many people were injured as well; some are fleeing as I am talking to you now. I had to quickly leave Mainok for Maiduguri because there is fear everywhere”, said Mr. Buba.
Borno state Police Commissioner, Tanko Lawan, did not respond to calls to his phone.
Maiduguri blasts
Many travellers from Maiduguri are said to have shelved their journey as Mainok lies on the highway leading to Kano the largest city in northern Nigeria. It shares same Local government with Banisheik which is just 10km further.
Both Mainok and Benisheik, located West of Maiduguri have suffered several attacks by the Boko Haram insurgents especially within last year.
The attack on Mainok coincided with the twin blasts that rocked Ajilari suburb of Maiduguri on Saturday evening.
A PREMIUM TIMES reporter who visited the scene of the blasts was told by witnesses that 51 persons died as a result, while several others got injured.
A Red Cross official confirmed that children made the top list of the casualties.
A leader of the Civilian-JTF, Hassan Ali, said the bombs detonated from two different vehicles.
“The first blast came from a pickup van carrying firewood, and the second from a Volkswagen Golf Salon car,” he said.
Mr. Ali said the first driver drove into a street called Bintu-Suga and packed, and then hurriedly moved into one of the shops as if he was trying to buy something, then the pickup exploded. Few people including the driver died and many were injured.
“As we were trying to rescue injured persons, then boom, the second one went off but this time killing and injuring more people,” he said.
Close to the scene of the blast was a cinema where a DJ was also playing music for fun seekers at a wedding reception.
Some of the youth who laboured all night to rescue the victims trapped under rubble insisted that there were people under the fallen walls but have no facilities to dig under, Mr. Ali said.
Another eyewitness said the second bomber in the Volkswagen Golf was seen abandoning his car and snatching a tricycle from a spectator, with which he attempted fleeing.

“Everyone was confused thinking the man acted out of fear, but in less than 30 seconds after, the car he abandoned exploded, so we then saw him abandoning the tricycle and continued fleeing on foot. That was when some of us raised alarm and rounded him up,” said a Civilian-JTF member, who identified himself as Isa Adamu.
The Maiduguri blasts has angered the youth who now accuse the government of weakening the Civilian-JTF by training some of them and giving them uniforms under the government scheme called Borno Youth Empowerment Scheme (BOYES).
The angry youth argue that paying some few members of the Civilian-JTF stipend as BOYES officials, had dampened the spirit of the “real Civilian-JTF” who would in the past go after members of Boko-Haram.
More corpses under rubbles
Borno state deputy governor, Zannah Mustapha, visited the scene of the blasts amidst tight security to sympathize with the residents.
Briefing the deputy governor, spokesman for community, Bukar Modu, said the explosions had killed 46 persons on the spot, while six others died later in the hospital.
Mr. Modu added that “unspecified numbers of corpses were still under the rubbles of the destroyed buildings”.
The deputy governor who expressed his sympathy said he was directed to visit by Governor Kashim Shettima who was on an official assignment.
Mr. Mustapha instructed the caretaker Chairman of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, Mr. Kadiri Rahis, to “liaise with the people in order to compile comprehensive names of surviving victims currently being treated at various hospitals for immediate assistance”.
He also assured the people that “when the governor returns, a committee would be constituted to look into the issue and see how best government can assist everyone affected.
He also promised that “those involved in the search for more corpses would be provided with excavator to dig into the rubbles in order to make their work easier”.
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BREAKING: Bomb explosion rocks central Maiduguri


Maiduguri on Blast


Borno state capital Maiduguri, has come under attack from belligerent sect known to be members of the contumacious Boko Haram sect.
Two thunderous explosions, suspected to be from detonated bombs, were heard in the city at about 6:15 p.m.
The blast occurred at an area called Ngomari area of the capital.
It cannot be ascertained immediately if the blast was targeted at civilians.
No one could also say if there are casualties yet..
The Boko Haram sect has in the past months intensified attacks on the northeast states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, which are under emergency rule
It has been attacking security and military installations, including barracks and airbases at will. It has also been pummeling schools, towns and villages unchallenged and ransacking highways.
This week, it slaughtered more than 29 pupils at a government boarding school in Yobe.
As the litany of atrocities lengthened, President Goodluck Jonathan claimed the Nigerian government is winning the war against the insurgency.
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Jose Mourinho wants Fulham to stay in Premier League


Jose Mourinho
Jose Mourinho would accept defeat at Fulham on Saturday if it helped his London rivals avoid relegation, so long as Chelsea go on to win the title.
Fulham are bottom of the Premier League table and four points from safety.
Chelsea are top and manager Mourinho said: "I would take defeat [if it helps Fulham stay up], then 10 victories [for Chelsea] and the [league] title.
"I'd like the London teams to stay up. I have that emotional connection with Fulham, our neighbours and our rivals."
The Portuguese continued: "Rivals need each other. It is good for everybody, so hopefully they can keep their place in the division, but we have to try [and beat them]."
I have to praise Magath's honesty. He was the first one to say it's a different match because of our situation
Jose Mourinho
Mourinho had earlier criticised the scheduling of Saturday's match at Craven Cottage, which comes three days after their Champions League last-16 first-leg draw at Galatasaray.
The Blues only arrived back from Turkey in the early hours of Thursday morning and Mourinho said: "We didn't train on Thursday or Friday [morning].
"Playing Sunday would be difficult, but Saturday makes it even more difficult."
Fulham boss Felix Magath believes it may provide "a chance" for his side.
The German said: "It's an advantage yes, we are lucky Chelsea had such a long trip and played on Wednesday - it's a good situation for us.
"Travel bothers the players, but Chelsea are the favourites."
Mourinho has welcomed Magath's "honest" appraisal of the Blues' situation as his team bid to recover in time from their 1-1draw with Galatasaray.
The Portuguese said: "In a world where not many people are honest in the way they analyse things, I have to praise Magath because he was the first one to say it's a different match because Chelsea have this situation in midweek."
Mourinho also spoke of his respect for Magath's record, which includes three Bundesliga titles.
The former Real Madrid and Inter Milan boss said: "I know of him and from what he was as a player and a coach, but I don't know him personally.
"I don't know his training methods, I only know his CV. I try to be pragmatic and read the CV and it is very clear and I respect that."
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Why I rejected the Centenary award – Soyinka

Prof. Wole Soyinka

Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka, said he rejected Nigeria’s centenary award bestowed on him because of the inclusion on the honours list of the late Nigerian tyrant, General Sani Abacha and other known killers and looters of Nigeria’s treasury.
In a rejection note headlined ”The Canonisation of Terror”, Soyinka observed that the inclusion of Abacha on the list does not only show a failure of a moral rigour but it calls into question ”the entire ethical landscape into which this nation has been forced by insensate leadership”.
He reminded those who have forgotten so soon that General Sani Abacha was a vicious usurper under whose authority the lives of an elected president and his wife—M.K.O and Kudirat Abiola— were snuffed out.
It was under Abacha, he said, that assassinations became routine, that torture and other forms of barbarism were enthroned as the norm of governance.

”Nine Nigerian citizens, including the writer and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, were hanged after a trial that was stomach churning even by the most primitive of standards of judicial trial, and in defiance of the intervention of world leadership. We are speaking here of a man who placed this nation under siege during an unrelenting reign of terror that is barely different from the current rampage of Boko Haram. It is this very psychopath that was recently canonised by the government of Goodluck Jonathan in commemoration of one hundred years of Nigerian trauma”
Soyinka said that the refusal of successive governments to remove the signposts in the nation’s capital bearing Abacha’s name, the inability ”to muster the temerity to wipe out the memory of the nation’s tormentor from daily encounter” demonstrates national self-degradation and a patent lack of political courage.
Soyinka argued that: ”What the government of Goodluck Jonathan has done is to scoop up a century’s accumulated degeneracy in one pre-eminent symbol, then place it on a podium for the nation to admire, emulate and even–worship.
“There is a deplorable message for coming generations in this governance aberration that the entire world has been summoned to witness and indeed to celebrate.

The insertion of an embodiment of governance of terror into the company of committed democrats, professionals, humanists and human rights advocates in their own right, is a sordid effort to grant a certificate of health to a communicable disease that common sense demands should be isolated. It is a confidence trick that speaks volumes of the perpetrators of such a fraud”.
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