– Feb 19 (Reuters) – An explosion struck the Nigerian town of Suleja, on the edge of the capital Abuja, on Sunday, a security source and a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said.
“NEMA has alerted other response agencies to an explosion reported in Morocco area of Suleja. Public are strongly advised to desist from getting close to explosion and allow rescue workers access to site,” the spokesman said in a text message. He added that the casualty toll was not yet known.
The security source said the blast struck near the Christ Embassy Church, on the main Morocco Road, but officials did not immediately confirm this.
Nigerian officials say Suleja and surrounding Niger state have been infiltrated by militants from the Boko Haram Islamist sect which is waging an insurgency against the Nigerian government, usually concentrated in the largely Muslim far north and northeast.
Since last year, the group has radiated from its northern heartlands and struck in or around the capital a few times.
On Christmas Day, a bomb blast claimed by Boko Haram against a Catholic Church in Madala, just outside Abuja, killed 37 people and wounded 57.
That attack heightened sectarian tensions in the country of 160 million, split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims.
On Wednesday, gunmen stormed a prison in Kogi state in central Nigeria, killing one warden and freeing 119 prisoners, the prison authorities said.
Although the majority of Boko Haram’s attacks occur in its home base in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, its threat has spread. At least 178 people were killed in the sect’s most deadly attack last month in Nigeria’s largest northern city, Kano.
(Reporting by Tim Cocks, Editing by Mark Trevelyan). REUTERS.
Guys just pray & take it very easy
Praying for peace in Nigeria from America.
that is terrible
wat is all this nonscence , and who are those behind this? walahi if na government they will surely rot in hell, this is very unfair nigerians we need to wake up and fight against this rubbish
One day monkey go go market e no go return. Boko haram is going too far. When the reaction they expect comes, make they no run. Remember Zango Kataf
@ Eje.
Thanks a lot. Those curses to me
and generation was uncalled for,
and most inappropriate.
I was avoiding to curse the chaps
cos i know the consequences being an elderly person.
In my own sober militant orientation, i just reviewed how
they have dealt with themselves
in the public.
But, if you insist that i tender
appology,
I hereby tender my unreserved
appology to all.
May God forgive, in Jesus Name, Amen.
Alex may God have mercy on u
Let us not be distracted by people
who are even ashamed of answering thier names
and that of the family they misrepresent.
Jama a Nasur Islam (JNI). Can you
make statement about the bombing under reference.
Is it Great Guy and his friend that have done it to discredit your
Boko Haram,?
it is expected that your highly placed forum would be careful
while making comments on burning religious issues.
The same is expected of our own
CAN.
Kindly speak straight to BoKo Harams to stop wasting innocent
lifes and resources.
Like Gowon tried to move federal capital to Jos when Ojukwu’s forces captured Midwest and besieged Ore in 1967, I advise Jonathan to consider temporarily moving the capital to Yenagoa or PortHarcourt. The reason these guys keep bombing Abuja environs is a deliberate statement to Southerners that Abuja is in the North and therefore theirs to bomb anyhow. But if you move capital to South, they won’t dare. And I fear that if this thing degenerates to a hand to hand war, Jonathan cannot trust Kogi or Nasarawa to give him escape route to the South, considering that a lot of these Bokos are from Kogi and hiding away in Nasaarawa
@Great Guy & Edobaking — I think you two misunderstood Alex. When he referred to pastor Chris, he was only making jest of Muslim leaders that claimed few days ago that it’s Christians that disguise as Muslims to bomb churches. The story went viral and it is also on this site. Check it out. In other words, Alex is merely expressing his utter disbelief of the Muslim (JNI) leaders tales, not casting aspersion and accusation on pastor Chris. Yet, Alex, you shouldn’t have been too hard on the guys, you should just have explained yourself. I think mutual apologies will be in order. Easy guys, because there’s a common enemy and it’s looming larger by the day
@ 2 nameless guys.
When you cant read between the
lines, you dont jump up in the
public like that.
You cant understand common
english.
I know you are school drop outs.
It is not late for you to study englsh and literature an know about metaphor and figures of
speed. Your dad has waisted
money on you. He should have
bought a dog with the money used to pay school fees for dullants like you.
I was refering to JNI that said
that christians are bombing
churches and crediting the BH.
If you are well breed, you can
know now where you belong,
eratic, rabble rousing, debased
unintelligent little mind.
I am sorry, God forgive You in your ignorance
and illitracy.
@alex u are very stupid
@alex odemena, you are a bastard….it is your father and your dead grand and great grand parents that bombed the church…..I’m sure u r so illiterate and you are among the problems we have in Nigeria….fuck you and your family and may you perish in hell fire all your life….how dare you say it’s pastor Chris that did that……may you father mother and your ancestors rot in the hottest part of hell…..
See n if you have nothing important to say, just shut up…….
This tin just dey complex
JNI, Maybe you will help us to
explain this one.
Could it be pastor Chris that bombed the area to implicate your Boko Haram?
Make una talk true and restrain these guys for Gods sake!