Bomb Blast: Troops Arrest Mubi Car Bomb Suspect

A suspect said to have been identified with the car used in conveying the bomb device that exploded at Mubi in Adamawa State Sunday evening has been arrested by troops in the area,PRnigeria reported .

He is being interrogated while further investigation is ongoing. Meanwhile the Sunday evening occurred Kabang area of Mubi in Adamawa State.

Many reportedly killed and scores wounded in the series of attacks and bomb explosion that rock the state on Sunday. A bomb attack targeting fans at a football match in Nigeria’s restive northeast killed at least 40 people on Sunday.

(ENDLESS) BOKO HARAM CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS: Over 1,000 people are crossing into southern Niger every week fearing attacks by Boko Haram - UN refugee agency

“The Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, or People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad (commonly referred to as Boko Haram, Hausa for “Western education is forbidden”), continued to commit violent acts in its quest to overthrow the Nigerian government and impose its own religious and political beliefs throughout the country, especially in the North” (USDOS, 20 May 2013)

“Boko Haram, a militant group that espouses an extreme and violent interpretation of Islam, benefits from this culture of impunity and lawlessness as it exploits Muslim-Christian tensions to destabilize Nigeria. Boko Haram also justifies its attacks on churches by citing, among other things, state and federal government actions against Muslims.” (USCIRF, 30 April 2013, p. 8)

“The group has primarily targeted police and other government security agents, Christians, and Muslims working for or accused of cooperating with the government.” (HRW, 31 January 2013)

Boko Haram Kidnapping children for battle, from Uganda to Nigeria

By Mick Krever, CNN

They come in the night.

Armed militants take young children from their beds, as they sleep: Young recruits for extremist causes.

It happened this (last) week in Nigeria, when heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped 200 girls from their boarding school.

And it has been happening in northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and other neighbouring countries for decades – the work of Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour covered Kony’s sick work 16 years ago, for 60 Minutes, when she reported on the abduction of 139 girls from their school.

BOMB BLAST: CAN, President Jonathan Declared A Genocide On Northerners - USMAN JIMETA; You Deserved A Response -FANI-KAYODE

BOMB BLAST: CAN, President Jonathan Declared A Genocide On Northerners - USMAN JIMETA; You Deserved A Response -FANI-KAYODE

''All Northern Muslims must know that the killings in the North of Muslims is solely sponsored by President Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan agreed with his people of South East and South South that our population must be eliminated through massacres.

Those carrying out the massacres in the different States of the North are well trained Igbos and former Niger Delta militants who were trained in Israel and clandestinely in some Countries. President Jonathan, once told a Northern Elite that a revolution must be started in the North to pave the way for killing all our Elites.

Jonathan, assassinated Gen. Mohamme Shuwa, assassinated Jarman Katagum, attempted to eliminate Ado Bayero, Kwankwaso, Sultan of Sokoto, to mention but a few.

Over 43 Sleeping Students Killed in Yobe by Boko Haram Islamists

Dozens of Nigerian secondary school pupils have been killed by suspected Boko Haram Islamists as they slept in student housing.

Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed 43 people today when they attacked secondary school students as they slept in the latest school massacre to hit Nigeria's troubled northeast. The raid at 2:00 am (0630 IST) targeted the Federal Government College in the town of Buni Yadi in Yobe state and bore the hallmarks of a similar attack last September in which 40 died.

In the attack on the Federal Government College in the town of Buni Yadi in Yobe state, explosives were thrown into accommodation and rooms sprayed with gunfire. The attackers reportedly hurled explosives into student residential buildings, sprayed gunfire into rooms and hacked a number students to death. 

Boko Haram:Hundreds flee north Nigeria town fearing attack

Residents of a northeast Nigerian town said Saturday hundreds of them have fled their homes for fear of attacks by Boko Haram militants who killed 43 people this week in a nearby village.

About 400 men fled Bama on Friday to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, 35 kilometres away following warnings from residents of Gombale village, where Boko Haram Islamists gathered for a planned attack on Bama, Usman Adam, one of the fleeing residents said.

"All able-bodied men, around 400 in all, have fled to Maiduguri after we received warning from Gombale residents across the river that Boko Haram were converging in the town for an impending attack on Bama," Adam told AFP.