Immediately after the blasts security men condoned the area while more people were seen helping the officials take control of the area.
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The blast struck a market after sunset in the northeastern city of Yola. Boko Haram pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State in March.
Usman said a closer look at the suspect showed he was number 28 among suspected Boko Haram terrorists declared wanted by the Nigerian Army last month. “The victims were taken to hospital and it was later confirmed that 15 people died, not including the suicide bombers”.
The Yola Federal Medical Centre received 37 injured people and four bodies, spokesperson Malam Adamu Dodo said, according to NAN.
He believes, however, that vigilance is a potential life saver, since security agents can not be everywhere to deter every planned attack.
No-one has said they are responsible but militant Islamist group Boko Haram has previously targeted Kano.
Left: Nigeria’s National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki.
Boko Haram on Wednesday was named the world’s most deadly extremist group in the Global Terrorism Index, published by the Institute for Economics and Peace.
President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the attacks, labelling them barbaric.
Founder of the social network, Mark Zuckerberg, made the announcement in a post on his account early yesterday. Even if the Nigerian military had acquired the equipment outlined in Dasuki’s alleged phantom contracts, Pham said Nigeria’s poorly trained military might not have known what to do with it.
Buhari ordered the arrest of Dasuki, a key adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan from 2012, and other unnamed high-ranking officials identified in an interim report by a presidential committee investigating arms procurement since 2007.
That is not to say that the Paris attack is any less tragic. “We’re now working quickly to develop criteria for the new policy and determine when and how this service can be most useful”, Zuckerberg said. In a statement attributed to him by local media he was quoted as saying he had always served Nigeria “with the best of intentions”.
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Others on Twitter, however, have noted that Facebook didn’t activate its flag filter for profile photos for Nigeria as it did for France.
