Showing posts with label kano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kano. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Nigeria: One Person Killed In Fresh Gunfight Between Boko Haram And The JTF In Kano

The Joint Task Force and islamist militants of the Boko Haram sect have been engaging is sustained gun battle since 3AM Nigerian time in the town of Sherada and Sabo Wuar-Gwandu in Kumbotso local government area in Kano State according to police sources.
Saharareporters learns that the security forces rsaided the neighborhood in search of militants suspected to have participated in las Sunday's  attacks on christian fellowships at the Bayero university in Kano .
Police said they recovered unexploded IEDs, guns and ammunitions from the militants. Some of the militants and theirs wives were arrested, A few others were injured during that raid by security forces.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

UPDATED: Two Professors, and many killed in Nigeria church attack Kano


Twenty persons were killed yesterday, including two university professors with several others injured when gunmen armed with bombs attacked St Stephen Catholic Chaplain, Bayero University, Kano. The attack occurred at Theatre Two, near Sports Complex, at the old Campus of the institution as Christian worshippers were holding Sunday services. Vanguard gathered that two professors, one identified as Prof. Ayodele of the Chemistry Department and Andrew Leo of the Library Department, were among the dead. The university’s Public Relations Officer, Malam Zaharadeen, confirmed the death of the professors.

Bomb blast in Nigeria's Bayero university in Kano


At least 15 people have been killed in a gun and bomb attack at a university in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, witnesses and police said.
Bodies were lying around Bayero University campus where Christian worshippers were holding a service.
A bomb squad and military units are searching for the gunmen.
No group has said it launched the attack, but the violent Islamist Boko Haram group is active in Kano. It has recently attacked churches.