Members of the dreaded Islamic sect the Boko Haram yesterday launched a fresh attack on the Mandawari police station in Kano, scaring residents of the area with sporadic gunshots.
An eye witness told Leadership WEEKEND that the suspects stormed the area and in a large group and started shouting "Allahu Akbar", meaning Allah is Great before firing the first shot to scare people away apparently to ward off any resistance and headed to the premises to attack the policemen, the eye witness said.
As the attack continued, a reinforcement of security men was sent to man the area and bring normalcy. At the time of filing this there were no reports of deaths.
A large group of suspected armed robbers numbering over 30 have attacked traders in Batsri border town of Katsina state killing over 15 persons and injuring several others on Thursday morning.
Reliable sources told LEADERSHIP WEEKEND that the traders, most of whom are indigenes of Birnin Magaji local government area of Zamfara state were travelling to attend a market session in Batsari town of Katsina state when the hoodlums suddenly appeared from a bush, heavily armed with dangerous rifles and started shooting the traders killing 15 of them and later setting the bodies ablaze.
One of the survivors of the attack Malama Yargado from Birnin Magaji local government area of Zamfara state', who lost a 7-year old child Ni'ima to the attack narrated to LEADERSHIP that on reaching Rugu forest, after Shenshema village of Birnin Magaji local government of Zamfara state some people numbering about 30 came out from nowhere wearing a greenish uniform "and started shooting at us", adding that "in the ordeal they shot my little daughter who later died on my laps," she said amidst sobs.
"Malama Yargado further explained that the bandits spared my life on condition that I should go and tell the emir of Birnin Magaji and the leader of the vigilant group, Dankura Shamushalle, that they would still come for another major attack as a reprisal against an earlier insurgence by the members of the vigilante who organized from the village under the leadership of one in which several of their members were killed."
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The Nigerian newspapers have become boko haram advertisers. Their reportage systems are so appealing that I wander any paper will sale again with a bold head on these robbers.Our journalists make boko haram so big that every Nigerian is insignificant. I wish to say emphatically that boko haram is to least thing to fight in that country. Islam has ruined the country doubtlessly. Take it or reject it! Boko harams are muslims, a fact too clear. Muslims can never give muslims out to infidels. Since boko haram is faceless now, it simply means that we enough evil people in the ideology. Jonathan is a helpless ignorant person. The forces behind him are far stronger than all his thoughts, put together, can do. I wish I could make my case louder and hard-hit directly on the so-called people that matter in the so-called islamic possessed federal republic of Nigeria. A check of the Central Bank of Nigeria, MDAs, and other islamic engineered so-called federal programmes such as NEMA, FERMA, PTDF, ETF, and many countless ones: JUST TO EMPOWER THE NIGERIAN MUSLIMS AGAINST THE NON-MUSLIMS IN THE COUNTRY, are sore sights to visit. It will be seen how islam has reduced everyone except muslims to second class citizens. By Jonathan appointing Mr., Jihadist, Killer, Murderer, Alhaji Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, who will now act as IG pending confirmation by the Police Service Commission (PSC), which is equally founded on islamic agenda, the statutory body that deals with promotions and retirements in the force. well, his mere recognition alone only shows that NO REPORTS EVER TAKE ANY EFFECT IN NIGERIA and that the President is more confused than ever. Infact, this acknowledgement alone makes Jonathan funny. The country has decided to ignore why the muslims match on to destroy the non-muslims(even the President is never spared). Abubakar literally participated in all killings, murders, massacres, pogroms, looting, and massive destruction of the Plateau people. He openly gave all the necessary assistance that the muslims needed to reduce the indigenes to ashes. With absolute help from the Caliphate, Babangida, Dangote, Sanusi, etc., Plateau State was reduced to shreds when this man was at the helm of affairs. The same has become IG. Now, even when he was in Bauchi, we saw and heard the field day boko haram had in massive destruction of the non-muslims in particular. Now that Goodluck Jonathan has elevated him to the IG level, we can predict one of two things: either boko haram will calm down for a more heinous attacks on the innocuous Nigerian non-muslims OR the intensity of their acts will ramify. I often think that Jonathan's rulership is a censored one. It is too clear that behind the scene, top muslims guide his actions and in-actions, leading to so many acts we see, including the evil State of Emergency on the Plateau people, for instance. Why are non-muslims keeping quiet at the expense of their own? The muslims has succeeded already in pitching the non-muslim President against the non-muslims in Nigeria! THE YARDSTICK TO BE PROMOTED IN NIGERIA TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL SEEMS TO DEPEND ON HOW MANY NON-MUSLIMS HAVE BEEN KILLED. OTHERWISE, ABUBAKAR IS SUPPOSE TO BE INCARCERATED AND NEVER TO BE SEEN WALKING THE STREETS OF HUMAN BEINGS. BY DOING THIS, JONATHAN HAS SHOWN HOW HE IGNORANTLY HATES THE PLATEAU PEOPLE, OR THE NON-MUSLIMS AT THE EXPENSE OF...!
The Nigerian newspapers have become boko haram advertisers. Their reportage systems are so appealing that I wander any paper will sale again without a bold head on these robbers.Our journalists make boko haram so big that everything else is insignificant. I wish to say emphatically that boko haram is the least thing to deal in that country. Islam has ruined the country doubtlessly. Take it or reject it! Boko harams are muslims, a fact too clear. Muslims can never give muslims out to infidels. Since boko haram is faceless now, it simply means that we enough evil people in the ideology who will deal badly with the country. Jonathan is a helpless ignorant person, which he is yet to realize. The forces behind him are far stronger than all his thoughts put together can do. I wish I could make my case louder and hard-hit directly on the so-called people that matter in the so-called islamic possessed federal republic of Nigeria. A check of the Central Bank of Nigeria, MDAs, and other islamic engineered so-called federal programmes such as NEMA, FERMA, PTDF, ETF, and many countless ones: JUST TO EMPOWER THE NIGERIAN MUSLIMS AGAINST THE NON-MUSLIMS IN THE COUNTRY, are sore areas to visit. It will be seen how islam has reduced everyone except muslims to second class citizens. By Jonathan appointing Mr., Jihadist, Killer, Murderer, Alhaji Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, who will now act as IG pending confirmation by the Police Service Commission (PSC), which is equally founded on islamic agenda, the statutory body that deals with promotions and retirements in the force. Islamist Rukayattu, so-called education minister, who cannot speak English effectively because her words have been arabinised, is another obvious fail Jonathan has done in the Education sector.Well, his mere recognition alone only shows that NO REPORTS EVER TAKE ANY EFFECT IN NIGERIA or that he could be unaware of who this wicked man is. But how could this be? I think Mr. President is sleeping. Infact, this acknowledgement alone makes Jonathan funny. The country has decided to ignore why the muslims match on to destroy the non-muslims(even as the President he is not spared). Abubakar literally participated in all killings, murders, massacres, pogroms, looting, and massive destruction of the Plateau people. He openly gave all the necessary assistance that the muslims needed to reduce the indigenes to ashes. With absolute help from the Caliphate, Babangida, Dangote, Sanusi, etc., Plateau State was reduced to shreds when this man was at the helm of affairs. The same has become IG. Now, even when he was in Bauchi, we saw and heard the field day boko haram had in massive destruction of the non-muslims in particular. Now that Goodluck Jonathan has elevated him to the IG level, we can predict one of two things: either boko haram will calm down for a more heinous attacks on the innocuous Nigerian non-muslims OR the intensity of their acts will ramify. I often think that Jonathan's rulership is a censored one. It is too clear that behind the scene, top muslims guide his actions and in-actions, leading to so many acts we see, including the evil State of Emergency on the Plateau people, for instance. Why are non-muslims keeping quiet at the expense of their own? The muslims has succeeded already in pitching the non-muslim President against the non-muslims in Nigeria! THE YARDSTICK TO BE PROMOTED IN NIGERIA TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL SEEMS TO DEPEND ON HOW MANY NON-MUSLIMS HAVE BEEN KILLED. OTHERWISE, ABUBAKAR IS SUPPOSE TO BE INCARCERATED AND NEVER TO BE SEEN WALKING THE STREETS OF HUMAN BEINGS. BY DOING THIS, JONATHAN HAS SHOWN HOW HE IGNORANTLY HATES THE PLATEAU PEOPLE, OR THE NON-MUSLIMS AT THE EXPENSE OF...!
Dear Sir, Your comments on President Jonathan et.al are rather confusing and non-linear. May you please cool down and break the Mumbo-Jumbo into manageable parts? Yrs PKowi
@Owi (Prof)
Isn't his point on the appointment of an indicted police officer, a man recommended for dismisal, as IGP clear enough to you? No one understand Jonathan's logic in that appointment. Read carefully and you'll find other examples. Jonathan is indeed sleep-walking Nigeria into disaster. He is wasting the opportunity for a southern president. We pray he doesn't continue that way. Immediate reversal of the appointment of that Terrorist would be one good sign.
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