Buhari ordered the arrests of several former high-ranking officials allegedly linked to fraudulent and fictitious arms contracts totaling $5.4 billion, one of his advisers, Femi Adesina, said in a statement.
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At least 105 soldiers from the battalion and two senior officers were feared “missing” following the attack on Wednesday, security sources said.
Suicide-bomb attacks in the Nigerian cities of Yola and Kano Tuesday ought to serve as a reminder that the wholesale murder of innocents are being carried out all over. Boko Haram pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State in March. Nigeria’s military has reported killing and capturing possible suicide terrorists.
While no group has taken responsibility for the continued violence, the territory is recognised as operating ground for Boko Haram.
A more deadly attack in November 2014 killed more than 100 people at the central mosque.
Officers fired warning shots as a deterrent for people to stay back from the market, which is typically packed with traders and shoppers. “I helped to load 32 dead bodies into five vehicles”, Alhaji Ahmed, a witness to the tragedy, told Reuters.
It was said to have four other women in it.
“It is really tragic for us”, she said.
Two explosions, believed to be from improvised explosives devices, went off in the GSM market Wednesday evening.
Facebook activated its safety check feature for the first time in Nigeria, after the Yola attack. Fifteen were killed and at least 123 were injured, according to CNN.
“The enemies of humanity will never win”. “Hand in hand, we will rid our land of terrorism”. In April 2014, militants abducted 267 schoolgirls in Chibok, a primarily Christian village.
The government also accuses Dusaki of transferring $132 million to accounts in West Africa, Britain and the United States without explanation.
The Global Terrorism Index says deaths attributed to Boko Haram increased by 317 percent in 2014 to 6,644 compared to 6,073 blamed on Islamic State.
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There were 763 incidents which represents a 20 per cent increase from 2013, the report by Washington-based Institute for Economics and Peace said.
