Police foil attempt to bomb PDP secretariat

 POLICE, on Wednesday, foiled the attempt to bomb the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Sokoto with improvised explosive device (IED).

Informed police sources told the Nigerian Tribune that at 11.00 a.m on Wednesday, the state police command got a report that an unknown person riding unregistered motorcycle dropped a black cellophane bag near the PDP secretariat.

It was reported that the suspect, while trying to hand over the cellophane bag to the policeman guarding the secretariat, was heard saying in Hausa Ga kayan gwari nan, meaning “here are perishables.”

The policeman, the Nigerian Tribune learnt, became suspicious and alerted the state police command to the development.According to the sources, a combined team of detectives from Zone 10 headquarters and the state command moved to the scene to avert disaster.

Also, a combined team of bomb experts from the zonal headquarters and the state command joined the team on the orders of Assistant Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Muktar.The police found out that a high calibre IED was inside the cellophane bag, while the anti-bomb unit carried out a controlled detonation of the explosive.

The source further told the Nigerian Tribune that no casualty was recorded.The Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, confirmed the development and lauded the partnership between the police and the public.

Also reacting, the state deputy chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe, thanked God that the anti-bomb disposal squad was able to defuse the IED successfully.

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Nine injured in another late night explosion

Yet to be identified assailants detonated an explosive device in an uncompleted building in Bayan Gari at Tudun Wadan dan Iya in Bauchi State injuring nine people around 10pm on Sunday.

There were hotels and brothels in the area where the blast occurred and it is a popular relaxation spot for many.

Bauchi State Police Commissioner Mohammed confirmed the incident to Daily Trust in a telephone interview that “some hoodlum’s detonated explosives in an uncompleted building in Bayan Gari. Nine people were injured and we have taken all the injured people to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital”

A security source in Bauchi state said “all the injured people were not affected by the blast they were injured when they heard the blast. They panicked and were injured in the resulting stampede. There was nobody in the building where the blast occured but it is a place we raid often for Indian hemp smokers."

An eye witnesses who spoke to Daily Trust said “the blast occurred near a hotel where we were dancing. We heard a loud sound explosion and the blast shattered  the glasses of our cars. We all panicked before soldiers came to our rescue. I counted at least 10 injured people. We were all trapped but God saved us."

On Friday, an explosive device was detonated near a popular night club in Abuja close to midnight. 

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Bomb Blasts In Maiduguri Police HQ kills five

A suicide car bomb outside police headquarters in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri has killed at least five people, police say.

Following the blast, security forces in the city stormed a suspected hideout of the Islamist Boko Haram group, prompting a fierce gun battle, police sources told the BBC.

There is a huge security presence in Maiduguri, which is the stronghold of Boko Haram.

No group has yet claimed the attack.

However, Boko Haram - whose name means "No to Western education" - has targeted police stations, schools and other government buildings in the last 21 months.

The group wants to impose Sharia law across Nigeria.

"Many people, mostly members of the police which include men and women were killed in the explosion," eyewitness Ali Alhaji told Reuters.

Security sources said the death toll may rise.

Five people were killed - the bomber, one policeman and three civilians, a police spokesman in Maiduguri told the BBC.

Twelve people were injured, five of them police, he added.

Boko Haram first came to prominence in 2009 when hundreds of its followers were killed when they attacked police stations in Maiduguri.

Its founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was arrested but died in police custody.

In 2010 the group started to stage drive-by shootings on government targets in revenge for his killing.

Last year, it carried out suicide bombings on high-profile targets such as the headquarters of the UN and police in the capital, Abuja.

Boko Haram said it carried out a suicide bomb attack last Sunday on a church in Bauchi city which killed 12 people, the BBC's Will Ross in Lagos reports.

A spokesman for the group issued a statement this week rejecting the idea of peace talks with the government, he adds.

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Explosions rock two primary schools in Kano

Multiple explosions Wednesday night, hit two primary schools in Jayin and Hotoro Arewa in Kumbotso and Nasarawa local government areas respectively in Kano municipal. An eyewitness told Vanguard that the attackers who came on a motorbike ordered watchmen at both schools out of the premises before attacking the schools. 

 The source further explained that the attack triggered pandemonium and forced night life to a halt as residents scampered to safety. However, at Jayin primary school, a newly renovated building was damged while no fewer than ten cars parked within the premises of the school were badly damged. 

 The midweek attack on the two pro-western educational institutions is the first of such attacks in the city since Kano came under attack on January 20, 2012. Meanwhile, no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks but authorities said; “investigations have commenced to unravel the perpetrators”. 

 Confirming the incident in a telephone conversation with Vanguard, JTF spokesman in Kano Lt Iweha Ikediche explained that “some IED’s went off within the premises of two primary schools last night” Iweha disclosed that “counter terrorism personnels were deployed to the scene for necessary actions.” He however, refused to divulge further details regarding the extent of damages. 

 Also confirming the incident, the outgoing spokesman of the Kano State police command, ASP Magaji Musa Majia revealed that “few cars parked within the premises of Jayin primary school lost their windscreens.” He however, assured that the Command will in due course issue a comprehensive details about the incident.

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Exclusive Pictures From PH Explosion

While conflicting reports fly around as to the real cause of the explosion this morning.,what cannot be contradicted is the actual explosion as captured here..The number of casualties and real cause of the explosion that has been alleged involved a fully loaded passenger bus in the first picture is still

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Heavy Explosions In Port Harcourt, Two Confirmed Dead

Multiple explosions have rocked Port Harcourt the capital of Rivers State, killing two persons and wounding many others, eyewitnesses told coolgists.com.

 Although the real cause of the explosions could not be ascertained as at the time of posting but our source say the impact was massive.

 Search and rescue personnel have been mobilised to the area, even though local residents have taken over the area, some helping and others causing more troubles. More details coming on coolgists.com

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