A female suicide bomber killed six people at a college campus in Kano city today, the fourth time Boko Haram Islamists were suspected of using a female attacker in as many days.
The latest violence came as the government announced the arrest of a 10-year-old girl with explosives strapped to her chest in a neighbouring area.
Boko Haram is blamed for killing more than 10,000 people since 2009 and their extreme tactics have been denounced worldwide, including on some jihadi websites.
But what appears to be a new tactic of deploying young women and girls as bombers will spur further outrage, as Nigeria seems unable to contain the violence.
At about 2:30 pm (1330 GMT) on Wednesday, an assailant blew herself up at a noticeboard on the campus of the Kano Polytechnic College, where students had crammed to check their assignments for a mandatory youth civil service programme.
Witness Isyaku Adamu said the explosion came from within the crush of students and left blood splattered on the ground, as soldiers and police scrambled to secure the area.
Government spokesman Mike Omeri put the casualties at six dead and six wounded and confirmed that a female, whose age was not immediately known, was responsible for the bloodshed.
It was the fourth attack by a female bomber in Nigeria’s second city since the weekend.
On Sunday, a young woman injured five police officers as she blew herself up at a another campus in the city.
The next day, two young women believed to be in their late teens or early 20s separately attacked a petrol station and a shopping centre, suicide blasts that killed at least three people and injured 13 others.
I am SORRY 4 NORTHERN NIGERIA, their RAW MATERIALS - ALMAJIRIS are being put in2 USE.
ReplyDeleteThese people are just action war film they watch on television thinking they are having fun. Why kill innocent people? Wake up cos this is' nt film cos u are fighting without a course
ReplyDeleteThese people are just action war film they watch on television thinking they are having fun. Why kill innocent people? Wake up cos this is' nt film cos u are fighting without a course
ReplyDeleteEl matosky and d like, i am sorry for yu. It is better yu kept quiet than to say rubbish. Nigeria is in trouble and yu think it is hausaman problem. Those behind this menace doesnt have time for yu xtain, PDP or southerners. Their target is to provoke the north to rise up against GEJ then turn around to support both to actualise their dream of Nigeria extintion by 2015. Anyway GOD pass them
ReplyDeleteWhat do u expect 4rm a fool,always reasoning like a fool dat he is.
DeleteBoko Haram is beginning to put Chibok girls to full use. Every minute; every hour that passes, the hope of ever rescuing the girls fade away. The Federal Government seems to have lost the initiative. And to make things much worse, the powers that be have silenced SiriusBlack, an anonymous army officer who doing a very brilliant social media propaganda on behalf of the Armed Forces. Instead of encouraging him, they silenced the brilliant voice who single-handedly restored the dignity and prestige of the armed forces in the eyes of Nigerians. And now, I wonder whether this country has a future at all.
ReplyDeleteStop wondering. There is no future for one Nigeria and that is becoming clearer each day and the national conference proves it where the northern elite said no to all key issues.
DeleteSo,they will release them and put bomb on them a bi? Let people think before they talk.
DeleteIslam,a Religion of Peace. hahahahahaahaahahaha.....Shame to all worshippers of this Terrorist Religion called Islam
ReplyDeleteWhat an idiot,only if you know what i think of you,hypocrite.
DeleteI quite agree that these new female suicide bombers might be chibok girls forced into killing themselves! What a pity! The govt of Nigeria has failed these girls n their families, has failed the Nigeria populace! Shekahu! You're so ruthless! God is watching.......
ReplyDeletewhen males do the suicide bombing thing they are promised some good numbers of virgins. have u imagined the reward for these ladies. lol . na die dem dey.
ReplyDeleteDis Islam is truly a peaceful religion judging on how they waste (infidels???) lifes, LWKMD! May God help us!
ReplyDeleteHoly Moses! What play of destiny in the first place brought us close to this (moslem) savaged cursed tribes???
ReplyDeleteThis new trend suggests we have tout get more serious about this insurgency. I hope our security operatives will capitalize on the 10yrs girl that was arrested with explosive devices strapped to her chest. They got to interrogate her seriously to extract as much useful information as possible.
ReplyDeleteit sooo sad that nigerian focus on the wrong things. While other nations are putting every effort to forge unity, we are cursing and arguing over religion and ethnicity.
ReplyDelete