Boko Haram: Pupils shun schools in Borno, Adamawa

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl9-z3DGbQ5lbjl-6Z9AqieuH_BHzIuzU_sm5n3MpVBAjSxf3mLjQcKKrrXZu5SQ6momgVUUT0GzrlstSU7nBfY87Sr_7OutEG4UGBwviziJvE6DX2XP_Jz0zDn2If1WPLQyUP-v1bsXH1/s1600/school+attack+boko+haram.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl9-z3DGbQ5lbjl-6Z9AqieuH_BHzIuzU_sm5n3MpVBAjSxf3mLjQcKKrrXZu5SQ6momgVUUT0GzrlstSU7nBfY87Sr_7OutEG4UGBwviziJvE6DX2XP_Jz0zDn2If1WPLQyUP-v1bsXH1/s640/school+attack+boko+haram.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <b>About two weeks after schools across Nigeria resumed for studies following the Yuletide break, some primary and secondary school pupils in the North-East have been afraid to go to school for fear of attacks.</b><br /> <br /> Investigations revealed that schools have remained shut for about two years in local government areas in the region where people have been displaced because of the Boko Haram insurgency.<br /> <br /> But investigation showed that even while pupils have flooded the day schools that are open in a few local governments, there are many other pupils, particularly girls, who still dread returning to school.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> A Christian religious leader in the North-East, who spoke on condition of anonymity, blamed part of the problem on unsafe roads for residents to travel.<br /> <br /> He also said that the use of schools as IDP camps was affecting education in the region. The religious leader said, “There is still fear among the people over their safety. There are many roads up till now that are not safe for commuters and civilians. The road linking Maiduguri to Bama through Gwoza and Madagali in Adamawa State, I don’t think commuters can travel through the axis. The road is unsafe.<br /> <br /> “Anybody who wants to travel to Yola town in Adamawa State from Maiduguri will have to travel through Potiskum, then Gombe before Yola. The road linking Maiduguri to Biu is still not safe.<br /> <br /> “Also, anybody who travels now on Maiduguri-Chibok Road does so at his own peril. These are some of the signs that negate the fact that the insurgency has been defeated. If the insurgency has been defeated, then people should be able to travel freely and farmers should be able to return to their farms.<br /> <br /> “If the roads are not safe, where will the pupils pass to the school? In Maiduguri, only private schools have resumed before now. In some public schools in Maiduguri, there are IDPs there. So, how do you expect normal academic activities to run where there are IDPs?”<br /> <br /> Deputy National Chairman, Northern Elders Forum, Dr. Paul Nnongo, who also lamented the fear among pupils to return to schools, said many of them had yet to be convinced that their security would be guaranteed in their quest for education.<br /> <br /> He said, “Some of the children may have to be convinced on the need to return to school because of their harrowing experience in the hands of the Boko Haram insurgents.<br /> <br /> “The children were aware that the government was in place when their colleagues were being bombed and killed by the terrorists. They saw what their colleagues suffered. Some of the children are not sure that their safety will be guaranteed, even if they return to school. They are still wondering why the Chibok girls have not returned.<br /> <br /> “The Federal Government should pay more attention to the North-East to ensure that all the children return to the classrooms.”<br /> <br /> In Adamawa and Yobe states, the situation has been similar, particularly in the local government areas hardest hit by the insurgency.<br /> <br /> A resident of Adamawa, Mr. Ahmed Aliu, said people had deserted Wagga village in the state, which shares border with Gwoza, a principal town in Borno State.<br /> <br /> He said, “Therefore, schools cannot open to pupils in a place like Wagga and the entire Madagali Local Government Area in Adamawa State. In fact, no school is open in all the villages in Adamawa State that share borders with Borno State. No one can open any school there and no pupil can attend school because of the fear of attack by insurgents.”<br /> <br /> An official of the Borno State Universal Basic Education Board, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said some schools in the state, particularly boarding schools, have been closed down for about two years.<br /> <br /> The official said only day schools in a few local governments in the state are open to pupils as residents of other local governments have had to vacate their homes.<br /> <br /> “In Bama and Gwoza, schools are completely closed,” the official said, adding, “The private schools that are opened are the ones situated in local governments where people were displaced, which include Maiduguri, Biu, Kwaya Kusar, Hawul, Shani, Bayo and Jere.<br /> <br /> “Most of the day schools in those places are open, but the boarding schools are still closed, and they have been closed for about two years. Most of the local governments have been displaced and most of the pupils are internally displaced persons.<br /> <br /> “Boarding schools have not resumed because most of them are used as IDP camps. And until people vacate the IDP camps, the schools cannot reopen. The implication is that pupils from these schools have lost about two years; especially the ones who were supposed to take the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination and that of the National Examination Council.”<br /> <br /> The official said persons from more than 20 local governments in the state now reside in Maiduguri and a few other local governments, meaning that pupils from as many as 10 schools could be attached to one.<br /> <br /> “Some of the teachers in the local governments that were unsafe have joined the teachers in the schools that are open but a lot of them have been displaced too, so some of them are not really in the schools anymore.”<br /> <br /> The local government areas where schools have remained closed include Mafa, Konduga, Bama, Chibok, Gwoza, Monguno, Damboa.<br /> <br /> A member of the Civillian Joint Task Force, Abba Aji Kalli, who confirmed the situation, said schools have remained closed in local governments where people have been displaced.<br /> <br /> He said, “The schools have reopened after the holidays, except in local governments where people have vacated as a result of Boko Haram insurgency.<br /> <br /> “We have nine local governments in the southern part of Borno, but except Gwoza in that part, schools have resumed in others. Schools have not opened in places and local governments affected by insurgency like Mafa, Bama, Konduga and so on.”

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Biafra agitation is hopeless – Obasanjo

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaZKoP4GkyZdl028lnvJj5Efp-wHQyWs_rzuM8nBbh7JmuGNYWz0eBiRT_j6NYp9BC27lcdXHnlHkg5ncs8HdNabiHvGDoxg7x4nx7FKTGS0z6Vu4p2lKQQ667RRmS11Sq8vetdhIa_L1m/s1600/obasanjo+%25281%2529+obj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaZKoP4GkyZdl028lnvJj5Efp-wHQyWs_rzuM8nBbh7JmuGNYWz0eBiRT_j6NYp9BC27lcdXHnlHkg5ncs8HdNabiHvGDoxg7x4nx7FKTGS0z6Vu4p2lKQQ667RRmS11Sq8vetdhIa_L1m/s640/obasanjo+%25281%2529+obj.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday dismissed the current agitation for the resurrection of the Biafra secessionist agenda as a hopeless and futile exercise.<br /> <br /> Obasanjo said this while presenting a paper entitled: “Resurgent Biafra agitation: Born in error, ignorance and frustration” at a public discussion on Biafra organised by Nextier Advisory in Abuja.<br /> <br /> He advised Nigerians especially the people of the South- East, not to take the secessionist agitation or agitators seriously as doing so would only lead to disaster.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> According to him, Biafra as a secession issue is dead and nobody should tread that path.<br /> <br /> He, however, said he considers the current agitation as more of a cry for attention, amelioration and improvement of socio-economic conditions and situations, especially of the youth in Nigeria in general, but in the South East in particular.<br /> <br /> The retired army general-turned-politician said, “No right-thinking person who has experienced the horror or war will ever agitate for more war.”<br /> <br /> Obasanjo said, “Biafra agitation as a means of calling for secession or severance from Nigeria is a hopeless and futile exercise on which nobody in seriousness should embark.<br /> <br /> “However, I see it as a symbol of desperation, despair and frustration of the youth being expressed by them for all to hear and redress in the South East and elsewhere in the county. But Biafra, never again! And we must avoid the coalition of the unwilling but forced by circumstances.”<br /> <br /> He explained that the country currently had enough problems, saying, “Nigeria cannot afford to go from Boko Haram insurgency to any other insurgency under any guise. And on no account should we wittingly or unwittingly allow this to happen again.”<br /> <br /> The former President maintained that the solution to the current agitation lies in a collaborative effort between genuine leaders and elders in the South East and a purpose driven leadership at all levels of governance.<br /> <br /> He explained that Nigeria must consider youth education, welfare, well-being, empowerment and employment as a lifelong collective duty, obligation and responsibility.<br /> <br /> Obasanjo noted that much as the youth have rights to express their frustration, such rights do not include embarking on wanton and wicked acts of destruction of the property ordinary men and women in the markets to make the situation even worse for poor and helpless citizens.<br /> <br /> “Bitterness, anger, destruction and wickedness can only worsen an already bad socio-economic situation. That will be unwise,” he said.<br /> <br />

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New Ebola death crushes victory celebration

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzqNk6GLf_DQO8y_QM2acDbz-D4mzmC5HFdUPSOfevZYTH-edJZQAqUqbfwirRSsH0dQD3q4bF3Ej9fYXwLEN1TihpJ92qsa-eS7RuFlN4fiRatUIsQ-BO5bWSQjjfL49NNs2GPlqQ72v/s1600/Ebola-patient.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzqNk6GLf_DQO8y_QM2acDbz-D4mzmC5HFdUPSOfevZYTH-edJZQAqUqbfwirRSsH0dQD3q4bF3Ej9fYXwLEN1TihpJ92qsa-eS7RuFlN4fiRatUIsQ-BO5bWSQjjfL49NNs2GPlqQ72v/s640/Ebola-patient.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> The World Health Organisation confirmed Friday a new death from Ebola in Sierra Leone just a day after West Africa celebrated the end of an outbreak which killed 11,000 people.<br /> <br /> A 22-year-old woman was taken ill near the Guinean border on Thursday last week and died on Tuesday, local health officials said as the WHO issued a statement from Geneva confirming she was killed by Ebola.<br /> <br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> The chief local medical officer, Augustine Junisa, told reporters the student became ill while on holiday in the village of Bamoi Luma and was taken by relatives to hospital.<br /> <br /> The official said the woman “died at home” but did not say why she had been released from the hospital in Magburaka, the capital of the northern Tonkolili district.<br /> <br /> “The swab test on the victim after her death was done three times and all proved positive,” Langoba Kelly of Sierra Leone’s office of national security told reporters in Freetown, appealing for calm.<br /> <br /> Kelly said investigators were fanning out across Tonkolili to track down anyone who may have had contact with the victim and family members had been placed in isolation.<br /> <br /> The WHO had said Thursday a two-year Ebola outbreak that killed 11,315 people and triggered a global health alert was over, with Liberia the last country to get the all-clear.<br /> <br /> However, the organisation also warned there could be “possible flare-ups” of the disease.<br /> <br /> UN chief Ban Ki-moon cautioned that the region could expect sporadic cases in the coming year but added “we also expect the potential and frequency of those flare-ups to decrease over time”.<br /> <br /> Residents in Magburaka, a town of around 40,000 people, voiced shock and distress over the announcement.<br /> <br /> “It was not expected and came at a time when we had thought that the virus is nowhere within our land,” groundnut farmer Allieu Kamara told AFP.<br /> <br /> “We are really worried that death has resulted from the case but we are hopeful that the huge presence of the various key players will bring back confidence to all of us.”<br /> <br /> The deadliest outbreak in the history of the feared tropical virus wrecked the economies and health systems of the three worst-hit West African nations after it emerged in southern Guinea in December 2013.<br /> <br /> Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola transmission on November 7 last year and Guinea on December 29.<br /> <br /> The agency said the 42-day countdown to Sierra Leone being declared free of transmission once more would begin from the date of the latest victim’s burial if no more cases were uncovered.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile investigators are likely to focus on whether she had sexual contact with an Ebola survivor, only recently recognised as a possible source of infection, and if she crossed the border to Guinea in the days before becoming sick.<br /> <br /> Rumours have circulated in Sierra Leone media over the resumption of the practice of eating bush meat, banned because bats and other jungle-dwelling mammals are thought to be natural reservoirs for the Ebola virus.<br /> <br /> But an associate professor of virology at the University of Queensland, Ian Mackay, said the practice had been in existence long before the outbreak and a relaxation of hygiene precautions like handwashing was more of a worry.<br /> <br /> “That seems to have dropped down a little bit. The WHO was mentioning that yesterday, that handwashing has just become just a little bit more lax and that really needs to pick up to help combat the return of this and other infections,” he told Britain’s BBC Five Live radio station.<br /> <br /> At its peak, it devastated Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, with bodies piling up in the streets and overwhelmed hospitals recording hundreds of new cases a week.<br /> <br /> Liberia, the country worst hit by the outbreak with 4,800 deaths, discharged its last two patients from hospital – the father and younger brother of a 15-year-old victim – on December 3, 2015.<br /> <br /> Africa’s oldest republic was the last country still afflicted by the outbreak that infected almost 29,000 people and claimed 11,315 lives, according to official data.<br /> <br /> The real toll is suspected to be much higher, with many Ebola deaths believed to have gone unreported.<br /> <br /> Ebola causes severe fever and muscle pain, weakness, vomiting and diarrhoea. In many cases it shuts down organs and causes unstoppable internal bleeding. Patients often succumb within days.<br /> <br /> From a Guinean infant who was the first victim, the epidemic quickly spread into neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone, notching up more deaths than all other Ebola outbreaks combined.<br /> <br /> Liberia was first to be declared free of human-to-human Ebola transmission in May, only to see the virus resurface six weeks later.<br /> <br /> It was officially credited with beating the epidemic for a second time in September before another small cluster of cases emerged.<br /> <br /> AFP

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Pastor Adeboye bags OAU doctoral award

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkqYWaI4wG-JRaOqtLDucZasJpopnJICyiFFya6UCBOK5mPdaW2RVN3OqliSVevWcGayN1IBxN_NkXvogyaoAUG0FjOulUnqWWr83TxJxANqJzmJQ-7_gkrKOQ6cOaLJMtKFoozj5Hq3w/s1600/Adeboye1-604x330.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkqYWaI4wG-JRaOqtLDucZasJpopnJICyiFFya6UCBOK5mPdaW2RVN3OqliSVevWcGayN1IBxN_NkXvogyaoAUG0FjOulUnqWWr83TxJxANqJzmJQ-7_gkrKOQ6cOaLJMtKFoozj5Hq3w/s400/Adeboye1-604x330.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> The General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Friday said one of his dreams had come to pass with the Honorary Doctorate award conferred on him by the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.<br /> <br /> Adeboye, who is an alumnus of OAU, said this during a special 41st convocation event held to confer an award on him at the Oduduwa Hall of the university.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> According to him, the award should serve as a lesson to everyone not to look down on anybody.<br /> <br /> While narrating how he had a dream about being honoured by the university, he said, “Today, I will talk to you about the mathematics of dreams or mathematics of fulfillment of dreams. With it, dreams can be related to linear equation. What is impossible for men is possible for God. That is why you should never write off anybody. When late Oba Adesoji Aderemi was given honorary award by this university, I said to my friend that one day, I too would like to get a honorary award from this university. My friend laughed and said if it was something that could be worked for; he had no doubt that I would get it because I am hardworking and brilliant. He said honorary award of this kind is only given to people of high class.

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We’re excited about arms scandal probe –BBOG

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiJ1PeYBW6S1lIz1SMv4yrvmLgMmKWVNIwx4umjNVctFbdtFaAitWfuNvRNoatWHasVdPvgDI5e36mcPUNhjLpkbL-CF_PrJX5bQ1L773rbNnSw37sZ-bK74isn8qrp_9zHhj-9Khyau5m/s1600/Ezekwesili.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiJ1PeYBW6S1lIz1SMv4yrvmLgMmKWVNIwx4umjNVctFbdtFaAitWfuNvRNoatWHasVdPvgDI5e36mcPUNhjLpkbL-CF_PrJX5bQ1L773rbNnSw37sZ-bK74isn8qrp_9zHhj-9Khyau5m/s400/Ezekwesili.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> The BringBackOurGirls coalition has expressed excitement over President Buhari’s directive to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe how funds meant for equipping the military was misappropriated.<br /> <br /> The BBOG spokesman, Tunji Olanrewaju, called on the government to bring the full weight of the law to bear on anyone indicted for diversion of the arms fund.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> He stated that the group had just rounded off a candle light procession in honour of fallen soldiers, adding that BBOG members also participated in an event commemorating the Armed Forces Remembrance Day organised by retired and serving soldiers in Abuja.<br /> <br /> Olanrewaju stated that in the light of the revelation that some former senior military chiefs diverted money meant for arming the military, the government should therefore pardon the soldiers convicted for mutiny.<br /> <br /> He called on President Buhari to exercise his prerogative of mercy and pardon the convicted soldiers whose conviction had been commuted to 10 years in prison.<br /> <br /> He argued that the convicted soldiers were right not to go and engage Boko Haram insurgents with bare hands, describing this as a suicide mission.<br /> <br /> He said, “On the directive of the president, everybody in the BBOG was excited. The people that misappropriated the money meant for purchase of the arms should not only be made to refund it, they should also serve prison terms. The full weight of the law should be brought upon them.<br /> <br /> “On the soldiers convicted for mutiny, we are appealing to the government to exercise discretion; the president should exercise his prerogative of mercy and pardon those soldiers who were convicted for mutiny, whose sentences were commuted to 10 years.<br /> <br /> “In the light of the revelation of the diversion of money meant for resourcing and equipping the military, we expect that the president would consider this and overlook the offence the soldiers may have committed. We feel that the officers were right–they were under-armed, they were sent to go and die.”

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APC threatens to sue Governor Ayade

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGdJfYVTbqT_W6kk6Y4VLlFx2kcDrZXsPM6rZmFjnsWRdtJn7AZizo4xCi63biOAe0ab61tsy4PwGrqw2yj4OtPjpMk6gcnn-S0nEPRl7iPhp_vu0HI1g_TTXBu1S82ue9alL_-nYEr-AJ/s1600/ben-ayade-390x336.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGdJfYVTbqT_W6kk6Y4VLlFx2kcDrZXsPM6rZmFjnsWRdtJn7AZizo4xCi63biOAe0ab61tsy4PwGrqw2yj4OtPjpMk6gcnn-S0nEPRl7iPhp_vu0HI1g_TTXBu1S82ue9alL_-nYEr-AJ/s400/ben-ayade-390x336.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> The All Progressives Congress in Cross River State has threatened to sue Governor Ben Ayade for failing to constitute the board of the State Independent Electoral Commission ahead of the October local government election.<br /> <br /> The Vice-Chairman of APC in the state’s Central Senatorial District, Mr. Cletus Obun, said in an interview in Calabar that the party had given the governor a 30-day ultimatum to constitute the CROSIEC board.<br /> <br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> Obun said it was sad that with less than three months to the announcement for conduct of local government election, the governor had not deemed it necessary to constitute the board.<br /> <br /> He said, “The Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission is expected to conduct election between August and November, unfortunately, in the hurry of Governor Ben Ayade to create small enclave for himself while a fundamental issue like local government election has been neglected.<br /> <br /> “The constitution stipulates that elections are conducted 90 days before the expiration of the tenure of local government chairmen which is December. If it is so, it means election should be conducted around October while notice of election ought to come out in April.<br /> <br /> “This is almost the middle of January and you do not have a commission, how do they prepare themselves? A budget has been passed for the election, so, there is no excuse why that election must not hold. We are giving the governor notice that in the next 30 days, if he is not ready, we will take him to court.<br /> <br /> “The APC will take him to court to ensure that he abides with everything that the law says he should do under Section 7 of the Nigerian Constitution. In the history of Cross River State, we have always had elected officials at the local government councils. Therefore Governor Ayade should not drag the state backward through dictatorship by bringing interim members.”<br /> <br /> But reacting to the complaint, the state Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. John Okon, said it was too early to make case for the local government election slated for the last quarter of the year.<br /> <br /> Okon said Ayade was working on constituting befitting board members and urged the APC to be patient.<br /> <br /> He said, “A board like CROSIEC is not something you rush to create. I believe the governor is working on it. It is too early to start making noise about the conduct of the local government election. Even in some many APC states, there had not been local government elections.”

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REVEALED: Boko Haram hides explosives inside vegetables

<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt2bcVtRwmJHkr2UmntvLqcXLYVj62gQ4mLZUnYBulaOu6-DZjK-Kp2b852AiY3Jn3epVdViQsSSXb9uU8Ujl5gP6edAEW9yE5QY03LGzvf0Mvjv2zZs86LAfTUaZXJcMfV37SKeDxkgO5/s1600/Boko-Haram+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt2bcVtRwmJHkr2UmntvLqcXLYVj62gQ4mLZUnYBulaOu6-DZjK-Kp2b852AiY3Jn3epVdViQsSSXb9uU8Ujl5gP6edAEW9yE5QY03LGzvf0Mvjv2zZs86LAfTUaZXJcMfV37SKeDxkgO5/s640/Boko-Haram+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> The Nigerian Army said on Friday that Boko Haram insurgents now hide explosives inside fruits and vegetables to carry out their deadly activities, warning citizens to report any suspicious person to the nearest security agency.<br /> <br /> This disclosure by the military was contained in a statement on its website. The army wrote, “In continuation with the sensitisation of our citizens on the devilish strategy of the terrorists, the Nigerian military authorities have discovered that the Boko Haram terrorists are determined to continue letting off bombs and have resorted to masquerading as fruits and vegetable vendors wheeling Improvised Explosive Devices as groceries into crowded areas.<br /> <a id="more" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> “The terrorists now hide IEDs under vegetable wares in carts and wheelbarrows and move to crowded places where they detonate them for maximum casualties. The recent terrorists attack in the North-East is a case in point.<br /> <br /> “Having been effectively dislodged and decimated, the Boko Haram terror group has begun some systematic isolated attacks mainly on soft targets in its desperation to remain relevant.<br /> <br /> “The Defence Headquarters hereby advises the general public to constantly be alert to this latest terrorist tactic and to report promptly any suspicious persons or objects to the nearest security agency.”

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