Gunmen bomb Ekiti Federal Prisons, free prisoners

Gunmen whose identities still remain unknown have attacked the Federal Prisons, Ado Ekiti on Sunday night and killed one person suspected to be a prison official.

The assailants who were said to be about 60,had stormed the prisons located at Afao Ekiti Road,Ado Ekiti on Sunday night at about 10.30pm

The gang were said to have employed the use of dynamite to bomb the main gate before they can gain entrance into the prisons yard

They equally killed all the 20 sniffer dogs tied in front of the gate.

The gang were said to have came to the prison premises with about seven Hilux trucks, brandishing dangerous weapons such as cudgels, cutlasses, AK 47 rifles , charms and chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they shot sporadically into the air .

Another attempt to bomb Gombe bus station foiled

It took the alertness of people and security arrangement at Gombe State Transport Service (Gombe Line) to thwart another attempt to bomb the motor park on Tuesday.

The same motor park was bombed precisely on October 31 with nine people killed and scores injured in the process.

An eyewitness at the scene said the man that brought the bag containing the improved explosive device to the motor park resisted attempts to be searched.

He said the suspect dropped the bag and tried to walk out of the park when an irate onlooker took the bag to him outside the motor park where a search was conducted and the explosives revealed.

He said the crowed at that juncture pounced on the suspect and found another explosive concealed in his clothing.

The angry mob set him ablaze, while the explosive on his body went off in the process.

Gombe State Commissioner of Police, Kudu Abdullahi Nma, who confirmed the incident at the scene, said it occurred at about 1:00pm.

60 feared killed Potiskum as bomb blast hit school assembly

No fewer than 60 students are believed to have died in a bomb blast that ripped through a school in northeast Nigeria on Monday, as students gathered for morning assembly before classes began.

In a bomb blast believed to have been detonated by a suicide bomber who had come in as a student, the incident happened at the Government Comprehensive Senior Science Secondary School in Potiskum, Yobe state, as students waited to hear the principal’s daily address.

 “The students had gathered for the morning assembly when something exploded in their midst with a thunderous sound at exactly 7:50 am (0650 GMT),” said one teacher, who asked not to be identified.

“The explosion has affected many students but I can’t say how many because we are now evacuating the victims to the hospital which is just 100 metres (yards) away,” the teacher added, sobbing.

A medic at the Potiskum General Hospital where the victims were taken said scores of students had been admitted.

“We are still receiving casualties from the school which is a stone’s throw from here,” the medic said.

“Our priority now is to save the injured, so we have not started a headcount of the victims.”

A local resident, Adamu Alkassim, said there was confusion in and around the school but the scene was a mass of abandoned footwear and blood.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but Boko Haram militants are likely to be the prime suspects.