The Presidency on Thursday deplore at a newspaper columnist, Akin Oshuntokun, over his false claim that a bomb blast had gone off in Maiduguri, Borno, on August 21, killing about 88 people.
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The upper chamber also urged the National Emergency Management Agency to provide relief materials to the affected areas.
The former Vice President had last year endowed the Fund with N10 million for indigent patients to have access to the money when receiving medical treatment at the Federal Medical Centre in Yola, Adamawa State
In a statement issued on his behalf by his media office, the former Vice President expressed his deepest grief and regret over such heartless disregard for human life by terrorists, and explainedthat indiscriminate mass murderers should not be allowed to defeat humanity and impose their reign of terror on the people
According to an eyewitness, no fewer than eight others are said to have sustained injuries
The bomb explosion occurred at Malkohi camp in Yola
At least five persons have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a police checkpoint in Damaturu, the capital…
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a hospital in Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, shortly after Vice President…
Malam Usaini Jibril, a driver who conveyed the injured to Sani Abatcha Hospital, Damaturu, told Daily Trust that he counted 10 dead people on the spot and over 30 injured
Witnesses told newsmen that a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated explosives at the police headquarters, located just metres from the presidential palace and the French embassy
A statement issued in Yola by DSP Othman Abubakar, the spokesman of the Police Command in the state, said that the ban was with immediate effect and for an initial period of one month
Abubakar said further that the recent spate of bomb attacks is a wake-up call on the need for improved vigilance on the part of the people and intelligence on the part of the security agencies to forestall such heinous attacks
The explosion was said to have ripped through a branch of First Bank Nigeria Plc in the town
The bomb exploded at a motor park owned by the Gombe State Government.
There have been two deadly explosions in Jos in the last one week
The suicide bomber was one of those killed in Saturday’s explosion
The state Police Commissioner, Chris Olakpe, confirmed more than 75 killed and over 100 others injured following the blasts that went off in an interval of 14 minutes
The commissioner advised the general public not go near the two areas until clearance was given by the police
So far, no individual or group has claimed responsibility for the bomb explosions
The Chairman of the forum and Governor of Niger State, Dr Babangida Aliyu while expressing the forum’s deepest condolences to the families of the victims, said there was no basis for what the perpetrators did