Twenty-four hours after former president Olusegun Obasanjo and military president General Ibrahim Babangida raised the alarm over growing insecurity in the country, gunmen yesterday attacked the Zaria residence of the vice president, Namadi Sambo, and injured two police guards.
The development came just as multiple bombs rocked Sokoto, the capital of the Caliphate, for the first time, with attacks on the AIG's office and two police stations. A total of five people died in the attacks.
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