United States condemns Abuja bomb blasts

According to a release from the embassy of the United States in Abuja, the U.S. Government has condemned Friday’s bomb blasts in Abuja, the Nigerian capital.

A statement by Sean McIntosh of American Embassy in Abuja, said the U.S. government strongly condemned the multiple explosions in the Nyanya and Kuje areas of Abuja on October 2, as well as the suicide bombings and militant attacks in Maiduguri and Adamawa on October 1, Nigeria’s independence anniversary.

“We extend our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those killed and injured,” the statement said.

Senate President Saraki Condemns Abuja Bomb Blasts, Advocates Increased Intelligence Gathering

Senate President Bukola Saraki

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Saturday condemned the bomb explosions in the satellite towns of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kuje and Nyanya, while calling on Security agencies to step up intelligence gathering activities.

Saraki in a statement Signed by his Media Office in Abuja, urged Nigerians not to panic, as the renewed attacks are signs that the days of Boko Haram are numbered.

He commended the security agencies for their quick response to the incidents in Nyanya and Kuje, especially the prompt evacuation of both the dead and injured to medical facilities where they are receiving needed for medical attention.

Buhari Condoles with Victims of Bomb Blast, Sends Delegates to the scene, hospital (Photo)

The Nigerian Presidential delegation comprising of Chief of Staff Abba Kyari, Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir David Lawal and others visited the scenes of the bomb blast and hospitals where the injured are undergoing treatment.

Aside sending the delegation to the scene of the Abuja bomb blast and Hospital, President Muhammedu Buhari has also through his Twitter hand "@MBuhari" identified with the victims of the dastardic Boko Haram acts.

Why Boko Haram Terrorists Detonate Bomb In Abuja

Multiple bomb explosion hit the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Abuja  last night. the release of prisoners in Kuje prison was reported to be the motive behind Kuje, Nyanya bombing’.

The  Bombing explosions were said to have been carried out by a female suicide bomber who attempted hitting the Kuje police station at about 9:51pm and a second blast from a suicide bomber on a motorcycle who detonated explosives in front of the Kuje market, killing dozens of people 15 minutes later while the last was detonated at the Nyanya  near Abuja .

According to the reports, the target of the bombing was the freeing of some Boko Haram prisoners that were incarcerated at the Kuje prisons, alluding to the fact that the Nyanya bombing which occurred was meant to be a decoy.

Kuje Bombing was said to have shaken several buildings and sent many residents scampering for cover and several people reported dead.

Abuja Shopping Mall Bombing, Many Died as Soldiers Arrest One Suspect

The explosion which occurred at a major shopping mall, Emab Plaza, in Wuse 2, Abuja claimed many lives.
A witness said the explosion ‎occurred at about 4p.m at Emab Plaza, a busy shopping mall in the highbrow area of Nigeria’s capital city, on Aminu Kano Crescent.

This is the third deadly explosion in the Nigerian capital in two months. The extremist Boko Haram sect claimed responsibility for the two explosions in April and May in Nyanya, a suburb of the capital.

Reports has it that the Nigerian soldiers have killed one of the suspected bombers and arrested another. 

State Of The Nation: Nigeria On Auto Pilot, Let's Rally To Save her! - by Chief Bisi Akande

Being text of a World Press Conference addressed by the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, in Lagos on May 11th 2014 on Boko Haram and Nigeria's security situation

Good morning gentlemen! Today is Sunday May 11th 2014.....exactly 26 days after over 200 of our daughters in Chibok, Borno State, were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents. Twenty six days later, we neither know where they are nor are we any close to knowing it, going by available information. Yet, 11 more girls have been abducted in Warabe.

Abuja kidnap rumour: Stolen school bus recovered – Official

Two men found in the bus were also arrested by security operatives.

Security agencies have recovered a school bus stolen in Nyanya, Abuja, on Tuesday morning, an official has said.

Nosike Ogbuenyi, the Special Assistant to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, said the bus that was snatched from a Vines International Academy driver has been recovered.

Mr. Ogbuenyi, in a statement, said the vehicle with registration number: XG 246 GWA was recovered Tuesday afternoon in Lafia, Nasarawa State capital.

He also said that two men found in the bus were arrested by security operatives.

The Nigerian Police had earlier said that no pupil was taken away in the Nyanya school bus incident.

The Police, on their Facebook page, said the driver reported the incident at the Nyanya police station at about 7.48 a.m.

The driver told the police that while cleaning the bus at the gate of the school, after he had dropped off the pupils, three armed men accosted and ordered him to surrender the keys to the bus.

He complied.

The police also said that details of the vehicle were immediately relayed to all police units for recovery and arrest of suspects.

They also confirmed an earlier PREMIUM TIMES report that nobody was kidnapped or injured during the incident.

There was panic in communities on the outskirt of Abuja on Tuesday morning amidst reports that some students were kidnapped during the bus hijack.

Nyanya is the community where two recent, separate bomb explosions in three weeks killed at least 95 people.

When the rumours of the kidnap spread on Tuesday morning, parents were seen rushing to schools in Nyanya, Kurudu and other adjoining communities to pick their wards.

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CHIMAMANDA COUNSELS PRESIDENT JONATHAN AND COS........"The President I Want" - By Chimamanda Adichie

Some of my relatives lived for decades in the North, in Kano and Bornu. They spoke fluent Hausa. (One relative taught me, at the age of eight, to count in Hausa.) They made planned visits to Anambra only a few times a year, at Christmas and to attend weddings and funerals.

But sometimes, in the wake of violence, they made unplanned visits. I remember the word ‘Maitatsine’ – to my young ears, it had a striking lyricism – and I remember the influx of relatives who had packed a few bags and fled the killings. What struck me about those hasty returns to the East was that my relatives always went back to the North. Until two years ago when my uncle packed up his life of thirty years in Maiduguri and moved to Awka. He was not going back. This time, he felt, was different.

My uncle’s return illustrates a feeling shared by many Nigerians about Boko Haram: a lack of hope, a lack of confidence in our leadership.

We are experiencing what is, apart from the Biafran war, the most violent period in our nation’s existence. Like many Nigerians, I am distressed about the students murdered in their school, about the people whose bodies were spattered in Nyanya, about the girls abducted in Chibok.

A NATION IN DISTRESS; THE URGENT NECESSITY TO IMPEACH THIS INCOMPETENT TREASURY LOOTING RULING CLASS - JAYE GASKIA,

A NATION IN DISTRESS; THE URGENT NECESSITY TO IMPEACH THIS INCOMPETENT TREASURY LOOTING RULING CLASS

Our nation is in state of paralyzing distress as we are pushed further and further to the edge of a cataclysmic precipice, by the bungling incompetence of a congenitally inept light fingered ruling class.

Agents of irrational violence, unperturbed by the spilling of the blood of children let alone fazed by their abduction rampage across the land.

Armed insurgent child molesters and rapists have laid siege to our schools, and converted the learning environment into the butcher’s slab and a place to shop for virgins. And they do this while their civilian cohorts, the political child rapists and child molesters perpetrate and perpetuate actions that further enhance the vulnerability of our children.

Alaafin Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi Blames Jonathan’s Political Foes For Boko Haram Attacks

ALAAFIN of Oyo, Oba Lamidi   Adeyemi, has flayed the activities of the Boko Haram sect, saying that the group is being sponsored by enemies of President Goodluck Jonathan to achieve political goals.

The Alafin in a letter of sympathy to the president following the Nyanya, Abuja bomb blast, said the group’s alleged links to Islam was unfounded as he said that Boko Haram’s activities were against the injunctions of the religion.
In the letter dated April 16, 2014, the monarch urged the president to seek international cooperation from neighbouring countries towards stemming the activities of the insurgents.

He said: “With the influx of mercenary fighters, grenades and rocket launchers, the Boko Haram’s senseless and unreasonable warfare has taken an international dimension and the time is ripe now for Your Excellency to seek for support and cooperation of the international communities, most especially our neighbours, Cameroon, Niger Republic and Chad Republic, to put an end to this threat on the Sovereignty and Security of Nigeria.”

Breaking News : Nigerian Federal Lawmakers evacuated over bomb scare

Nigerian authorities ordered an immediate evacuation of the National Assembly Tuesday a day after a massive car bomb killed at least 71 people and wounded 124 more at a car station near the capital, Abuja.

Security agents asked lawmakers and other staffers to leave the sprawling complex in central Abuja after reports that an explosive material had been planted in the building. The claims were not immediately confirmed.

The National Assembly is located within the Three Arms Zone, Nigeria’s most fortified district, which lies a short distance from Nyanya, the scene of Monday’s bombing.

More Details coming…

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