90 reportedly diedd as war rages in Benue and Boko hits Borno market

The weekend deadly andseparate attaks in Benue and Borno States claimed at least 90 people with many others injured.

Reports has it that 55 persons were killed in Benue state,  yesterday, in one of the bloodiest clashes between Tiv youths and suspected Fulani mercenaries at Gbajimba, the headquarters of Guma Local Government Area of the state, while another 35 persons died when Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by Boko Haram terrorists exploded at a market square in Ngurosoye village of Bama council area of Borno State.

Boko Haram’s massacre: Women to Organise Mourning Protest in Nigeria Major Cities Wearing Black

Thousands of women are gearing up for mass protest in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Benin and Abuja following Boko Haram’s massacre of school children and others in Yobe and other northern states.

‘Mother of all Protests’ will see the women wearing black, which symbolises mourning, and they will march on the streets of Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Benin in a peaceful protest to call for an end to the endless gorry killings in the north.

Borno State: 18 Killed in Alau Ngawo Fate Village

Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect have killed 18 people in an attack on Alau Ngawo Fate village in Jere local government area of Borno state. The Chief of Alau Ngawo village, Bulama Ibrahim said he counted 18 bodies after the shooting adding that most of those who survived the attack have fled the village.

The spokesman for Nigerian Army, 7 Division, Mohammed Dole and Borno state Police Commissioner, Lawal Tanko who confirmed the incident, stated that they were yet to get detailed information on the number of casualties. A former local councilor, Mustapha Galtimare, who was on the scene after the attack, concurred with the numbers of dead.

“They had been in the village for nearly two hours without any security personnel coming to the aid of the villagers,” Ibrahim said. Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the northeast last May and ordered in extra troops and air strikes on Islamist bases.

On December 2 Boko Haram gunmen stormed the Air Force Base and military barracks around the airport of the northeastern city of Maiduguri. 

The group was also blamed for a car bomb in the city this week that killed 29 people.