[size=14pt]QUIT ORDER: Boko Haram kills 30 southerners[/size]

By Emma Amaize and Umar Yusuf, Yola

The Boko Haram Islamic sect has made good its threat to attack Southerners living in the North as no fewer than 20 people from both the Igbo and Yoruba extractions were murdered in Mubi, Adamawa State between Thursday night and yesterday.

Eight other people, including six Christian worshippers, were killed and several others wounded in a Deeper Life Church in Gombe State just as an 80 year- old father, Musa Darkuwa and his son, Usman were killed in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State on Thursday night, bringing the number of those killed by suspected members of the sect in the two states within the period to about 30.

Wife of the Pastor Johnson Jauro of the Deeper Life Church was among those killed in the attack, even as two other victims in the state were killed in a hotel in the metropolis.Governor Ibrahaim Hassan Dankwambo of Gombe has always expressed shock over the mayhem unleashed on the Deeper Life Church.

The governor who visited the church yesterday in company of the State CAN Chairman, Reverend Abare Kalla, and many other state dignitaries, directed security agents to fish out the perpetrators of the crime, noting that the development was alien to Gombe.

In Delta State, the police also confirmed that five people, including two policemen; an Assistant Superintendent and Inspector were killed by armed robbers in military camouflage. The others were a couple and their salesgirl in a jewellery shop in Warri.

Also, in what looked like a reprisal attack over the killings of Southerners by Boko Haram, enraged youths numbering about 2000 and armed with axes, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons yesterday went on rampage in Sapele, sacking and inflicting injuries on about 50 Muslims at the Hausa Quarters in the local government.

A purported spokesman for Islamist sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a Christmas Day explosion near a church outside the Nigerian capital on December 25, 2011. "We are responsible for all the attacks in the past few days, including today's bombing of the church in Madalla," Abul Qaqa told AFP by phone. "We will continue to launch such attacks throughout the north in the next few days." AFP PHOTO

Two mosques were torched during the crises, as the Chief Imam of Sapele Central Mosque, Alhaji Mohammed Usman condemned the incident. Two persons suspected to have carried out the attacks were however arrested by the police in Sapele.

Saturday Vanguard gathered that the killing in Mubi started Thursday night when gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram killed three southerners.

It was learnt that while relatives of those killed the previous day gathered yesterday to discuss modalities for conveying their corpses to their respective states for burials, the same gunmen swooped on them and started shooting sporadically killing 12 people on the spot and wounding over 30 others, thus bringing the number of those killed in Mubi alone to 15.

Those wounded were said to be receiving treatment in various hospitals in the state. An Information Officer in Mubi told Saturday Vanguard that tension was seriously mounting in the town as Igbo traders had closed their shops in solidarity with their slain colleagues. He said attempts by the Igbo to retaliate the killings of their kits and kins was being hampered by the heavy security presence in the town.

However, Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo who visited the church in company of the State CAN Chairman, Reverend Abare Kalla and many other state dignitaries, directed security agents to make sure that they fish out the perpetrators of the crime and the cause which he said was alien to Gombe.

The Governor who condemned the attack of a place of worship and the killing of worshippers however stated that the incident has challenged the government to step up measures for the continued peaceful co-existence of the people in the state, even as he tasked the people to henceforth seek security help and advise before embarking on an overnight church activity.

He acknowledged that the location of the church was known to be a den for criminals and hoodlums also promised free medical treatment for those still receiving treatment while also promising that Government would take care of the burial rites of those that lost their lives in the attack.

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A screen grab made on October 21, 2010 in an undisclosed location from a video allegedly showing members of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram

OP, maybe you want to change your heading. A lot of you are trying your darndest to drag the Yorubas into this your bullish*iyyt Southern Solidarity nonsense. Im pretty sure when the Gun-Men ran up in the church they didn't say "YORUBA, IGBO, STAND OVER THERE. . . . the rest of you can go home" before dropping everyone in a hail of bullets.

If you cannot see that this is all:

A. Govt pitting us against one another (to divert attention from the relevant issues at hand) A la 9/11 when George W Bush kept messing with us everyday with the  "They're going to attack if we don't take away your rights" line then I don't know what to tell you.

B. GEJ's enemies trying to start a war----If we can't rule then everywhere burns down.


c. 5th Columnists (Internal & External)

Like I said in an earlier post, some dude whom we've never heard of will finally turn up and claim to be "Spokesman". This is the only Group I've ever heard of that has a different spokesman after every bombing. Let them keep fooling y'all, they can't fool me.

Mr.President says he knows  who sponsors Boko Haram, yet he won't tell us or do anything about it.

He claims he knew who bombed on Oct, 1st (don't forget MEND implicated GEJ as the person that orchestrated the bombing), yet he won't say anything. . . .  Yeah right!

Ol' boi abeg change that title, people are not interested in getting into any skirmishes. Theres Marches going on all over the country against subsidy/corruption, yet some people refuse to join because "Nah our pikin e be". When hunger wire everyone, and people start getting forced to eat their kids, maybe then tribalism and bigotry go clear for all of una eyes. Until then, please dont try to create where it doesn't exist.

Please be honest with your posting. The people that were killed in Mudi were Igbo traders. There is no need to add Yoruba. A simple google search shows that BBC and other credible news agencies say that the victims were Igbo. I am sure that many want to take vengance but the hausa led military will be watching their moves as they allow more Igbos to be harmed. There is no doubt in my mind that certain northern elites and Boko haram sympathizers in the military are aiding in these attacks.

This is very worrisome. They should please stop this dastardly act.

u guy up top are dummies . even if its just igbos killed , shouldnt you be outraged !!!!!!!!!1

u guys need to shut up. u think boko haram cares if u are igbo or yoruba
if they see ur yoruba self, they will slaughter you same as anybody else.

for several years now igbos have clamored to have their own country.  boko is the new govt in nigeria.  gej govt is fvckd up and finished. . . bokoharam control the street and the security of this country.  now, this new govt told you to go back home and take your country and your destiny in your own hand and do what you want but your leader Uwazuruike say no, you should not re-congregate at home for the new country.  i dont understand it!

this is your opportunity to run with what you have when everything else is lost to chaos and gej is a sitting duck waiting for military boots to come kick his a s s out.  if military get in there before you formulate your new biafra in peace, it will be hard afterwards and you might then need force and warto actualize your dream.

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u guy up top are dummies . even if its just igbos killed , shouldnt you be outraged !!!!!!!!!1

u guys need to shut up. u think boko haram cares if u are igbo or yoruba
if they see your yoruba self, they will slaughter you same as anybody else.

No, docile goat, YOU ARE THE DUMMY!!!

The title is misleading and is clearly aimed at inflaming an already tense situation. Its only "Southern Nigeria" when you want to rile up the polity. Talk about tribalism and extreme bigotry at its finest. Reread my post at least, before passing rash judgements. If bad is going to be condemned let it be condemned all the way, but if the condemnation is going to be done half way, I'm not for it. Either the deaths are condemned totally or they aren't. Either corruption is going to be condemned totally by[b] EVERYONE[/b], or it won't. But, a situation where everyone condemns the atrocities of Boko-Haram, but now it comes time to fight the injustice of corruption, some choose to sit on the fence because "Na our pikin make we support am even if e dey buy 2 Mercedes Benz for N250million, while giving 175million people 1,600 buses . . . ." .  Man, count me out of it. I call it as I see it. And, as I see it right now some people are being fake as hell, and that doesn't sit well with me.

Unfortunate

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God save as in our country nigeria

Boko haram kills anybody they see in the church..hausa, igbo or yoruba..