B’Haram bombs bar, kills 60 in Adamawa
June 2, 2014 by Agency Reporter
| credits: Tsoule photo
Members
of the Boko Haram Islamic sect on Sunday bombed a bar and a brothel
located near a major military base in Mubi, Adamawa State and killed
over 60 people.
Sources told saharareporters
that explosion rocked the popularly bar located at Kaban, a few
kilometres to the headquarters of the Special Operations Battalion (SOB)
of the Nigerian army in Mubi.
It was gathered that the SOB was at the
centre of the Nigerian government’s counter-offensive against Boko
Haram’s increasingly daring attacks on military and civilian targets.
Saharareporters reported that the blast occurred around 6pm at the brothel where both military and civilians used to unwind.
The agency reported that one of its sources said none of the casualties was a soldier, but another source told saharareporters that it was too early to determine whether soldiers were among the casualties or not.
Saharareporters added that
soldiers based in Mubi “frequently join civilians to eat, drink and
dance at the watering hole. It, however, added that military commanders
had warned soldiers not to stay at the joint past 4 p.m.
In recent weeks, Boko Haram has carried
out deadly attacks in the northeast Nigerian states of Adamawa, Borno
and Yobe despite the Federal Government’s declaration of a state of
emergency in the three states.
Meanwhile, security forces in Cameroon
have killed about 40 Boko Haram militants in clashes in the country’s
far north on Sunday.
Cameroon’s state radio said this on
Sunday shortly after the release of two Italian priests and a Canadian
nun suspected to have been held by the Islamist group.
A government source in Yaounde was quoted by Reuters as having confirmed the clashes which took place west of the town of Kousseri, in the region bordering Nigeria and Chad.
Cameroon, which had been criticised by
Nigeria for not doing enough to fight the Boko Haram insurgents,
deployed some 1,000 troops in the far North last week.
The two Italian priests and a Canadian
nun kidnapped in northern Cameroon nearly two months ago by suspected
Boko Haram gunmen were released on Sunday, smiling and apparently in
good health as they arrived in Yaounde, the capital.
Reuters reported that Giampaolo
Marta and Gianantonio Allegri, missionaries from the diocese of Vicenza
in northeast Italy, and Canadian Gilberte Bissiere were seized on the
night of April 4 from the parish of Maroua, close to the border with
Nigeria.
There has been no claim of responsibility
for their kidnapping but Cameroonian officials have pointed the finger
at the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, which has become active in a
region that it had for some time used as a logistical base.
Reuters added that state
television in Cameroon showed images of the priests and the nun arriving
at Yaounde airport on Sunday in the company of heavily armed
Cameroonian special forces.
2015: Fashola condemns call for Christian successor
BY OLASUNKANMI AKONI & MONSUR OLOWOOPEJO
LAGOS—GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, condemned the demand by some Christian religious groups in the state that a Christian should be his successor in 2015, saying, “do they really believe in God? It is only God that can insist.”
The state chapter of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has recently called for a Christian to succeed the governor in 2015.
![From left: His Eminence Dr. [Rtd] Sunday Ola Makinde, Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Acbishop Georgr Amu, CAN Secretary, Chief Imam Ahmed Babatunde Yusuf and Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state, during the Lagos state Government, organize Inter-Faith Conference, Theme: Peace, Religious Harmony and Good Governance; Issue and Challenges, held at Golden Tulip Hotel, Festac Town, Lagos. on. 19/05/2014. Photo: Bunmi Azeez](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uHe0McaO2PdUCPPZ_8DNrYgM6JA12fqR_j3SzruyskEan1n8GSJrNzS2R7Y3Vl0x7_ESc1y5kpMAvpHgcBYwOF4I90C43KbVTwOaIFiDPEdH5AGcKaz9fW4Xn57Yio3TEKkDDhSvrCFzEtWQiG4cJjDu_M=s0-d)
Fashola, while declaring open an inter-faith conference
in Lagos, with the theme: ‘Peace, Religious Harmony and Good Governance:
Issues and Challenges’, argued that the insecurity in the nation would
reduce drastically if everyone embraced religious harmony.According
to him; “People have said that they want one particular governor and I
have ask myself two questions – the people who said that they want one
particular governor or said that there must be this particular governor,
are they still conscious that it is an election where a choice has to
be made? If there are two democrats, they should expect that citizens
must have a say in who is sworn-in as the governor of their state.
“Secondly; I wonder when I heard those things. You can insist, but can you insist that you will be alive in the next one hour. I know that things can rub off badly, you may be on the wrong side of the government policy, but we must trust ourselves.
“We have integrated more than 50 years ago rather than toying with what we are doing at the moment. The danger is too much, this cloth will not tear in one straight line; it will tear in shreds if we pull it too far and let us restrain the pull on the cloth. It is no longer a new cloth; it is a well worn cloth and when a well worn cloth tears, it doesn’t repair well.”
The governor insisted that religion should not be made as the yardstick to determine his successor, saying “Good governance means different things to us. It may mean that there are more religion institutions of one faith than the other in the state; that maybe good governance for some people. And for majority, good governance is just food, the ability to get a job and provision of social amenities. For those people, the faith of the governor is never their problem.”
LAGOS—GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, condemned the demand by some Christian religious groups in the state that a Christian should be his successor in 2015, saying, “do they really believe in God? It is only God that can insist.”
The state chapter of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has recently called for a Christian to succeed the governor in 2015.
From
left: His Eminence Dr. [Rtd] Sunday Ola Makinde, Prelate of the
Methodist Church Nigeria, Acbishop Georgr Amu, CAN Secretary, Chief Imam
Ahmed Babatunde Yusuf and Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state, during
the Lagos state Government, organize Inter-Faith Conference, Theme:
Peace, Religious Harmony and Good Governance; Issue and Challenges, held
at Golden Tulip Hotel, Festac Town, Lagos. on. 19/05/2014. Photo: Bunmi
Azeez
“Secondly; I wonder when I heard those things. You can insist, but can you insist that you will be alive in the next one hour. I know that things can rub off badly, you may be on the wrong side of the government policy, but we must trust ourselves.
“We have integrated more than 50 years ago rather than toying with what we are doing at the moment. The danger is too much, this cloth will not tear in one straight line; it will tear in shreds if we pull it too far and let us restrain the pull on the cloth. It is no longer a new cloth; it is a well worn cloth and when a well worn cloth tears, it doesn’t repair well.”
The governor insisted that religion should not be made as the yardstick to determine his successor, saying “Good governance means different things to us. It may mean that there are more religion institutions of one faith than the other in the state; that maybe good governance for some people. And for majority, good governance is just food, the ability to get a job and provision of social amenities. For those people, the faith of the governor is never their problem.”
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