“In just over a week, suicide bombers have killed at least 47 people in attacks at crowded places, including a market and a popular bar, in towns in both Nigeria and neighboring Cameroon”, notes Al Jazeera.
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At least 50 people were killed and 52 others wounded Tuesday when a bomb went off at a market in the northeastern Nigerian town of Sabon Gari, authorities said.
A nurse at Biu hospital 25 miles away said the facility received more than 20 bodies burned beyond recognition, and is treating 41 survivors.
‘It was concealed in a knapsack used for spraying herbicides.
“We warned the leadership in my country, the Christian Association of Nigeria: ‘Let us listen to the Muslim leadership, because the leadership is not in support of Boko Haram'”.
Popular support for the Cameroonian government may be explained by the number of deathsw caused by Boko Haram in recent months.
“Boko Haram is decapitated”.
Nigeria’s neighbors which have all suffered attacks by Boko Haram set up a regional force earlier this year to end the conflict.
In the immediate aftermath, officials said 47 people had been killed but upped the toll by three overnight.
Last year, the militants seized a huge area of the north-east, before being beaten back by a regional coalition, including Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
The Borno Commissioner of police, Aderemi Opadokun, told journalists that his command can only make comments on such attacks after full investigations and verification of facts brought in from scenes of attacks.
But the archbishop said attitudes had now changed after so many lives had been killed.
Buhari’s victory triggered a wave of optimism for oil-rich Nigeria, which has Africa’s biggest population and economy but many deep and seemingly intractable problems.
Cummings said such acts of mass violence helped the jihadist group to over-inflate the public perception of its strength while undermining the legitimacy of the government as a guarantor of security.
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Nigerian military operations have seen blended results, with reports expressing that an absence of subsidizing has hampered endeavors to battle Boko Haram, and additionally low good among troops. “The insurgents are exhausted and they want true and honest negotiations, it is left to the Federal Government to accept or reject their advances, depending on the genuineness of their approach to this incessant insane massive killings and bombings in Nigeria”.
