At least 11 persons have been confirmed dead after two suicide bombers detonated their explosives at a GSM market in Kano.
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The development came as 32 people were killed and 80 wounded in an explosion at a market in the northeastern city of Yola on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the death toll from Tuesday night’s suicide bomb attack in Yola, the Adamawa State capital has risen to 34, with 85 other people seriously injured and undergoing treatment in different hospitals in the state.
The group that’s now been named the world’s most deadly extremist organization has struck again today in Nigeria.
Nobody immediately claimed responsibility, but the incident bears the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which is attempting to create an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria.
Initials reports said five people had been killed.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who called the attacks “barbaric” and “cowardly”, has given his military until next month to defeat Boko Haram.
He extended his condolences to the affected families of the victim and to the Nigerian Government and People.
“President Buhari reassures Nigerians that his administration is very much determined to wipe out Boko Haram in Nigeria and bring all perpetrators of this heinous crime against humanity to justice”, said presidency spokesman Garba Shehu.
The lull suggests the military’s strategy of cutting off Boko Haram’s supply routes and targeting its camps is working, forcing the Isis affiliate to revert to guerrilla tactics.
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg yesterday said the social network has activated its “Safety Check” feature for the first time in Nigeria after the blast to allow users to check whether friends are safe. Buhari accused his predecessor’s national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, of stealing billions of dollars meant to buy weapons to fight Boko Haram, when soldiers were short on ammunition for their rifles and the extremists were rampaging across northeast Nigeria. It has forced at least 2.6 million people from their homes, killing at least 17,000 people and abducting hundreds, including the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in Chibok village in April previous year that prompted an global outcry.
