More than13 people have lost their lives in Potiskum, Yobe State, after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in an 18-seater bus.
An eye witness recounted his ordeal to BBC Hausa that the suicide bomber had waited until the bus was full before boarding the bus to accomplish the suicide mission.
The eye witness told BBC that he counted about 13 dead bodies.....
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Today, the National Defence Council presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan has given a nod for the extension of the state of emergency in the troubled north eastern states of Nigeria.
The affected northern states includes Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa state.
The news was made known today in Abuja after the meeting by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke. He said the President would forward the request to the National Assembly for approval.
Due to the unending deadly activities of the Boko Haram sect, the National Defence Council met at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa to decide if the state of emergency in some North Easters States of Nigeria would have to be extended or not.
The affected States are Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.
The 3rd phase of state of emergency imposed on these states by the president will expire on Thursday which may have prompted this meeting today to determine the next line of action.
Though there has been media speculations that the president may impose total military rule in the states since the partial imposition seems not to be yielding any Tangible result.
If the speculations works as thought, a military administrator will be appointed to take charge of the administration of the States.
Do you think that would be the best option for the president?
About 47 school children were killed today while 79 others sustained various degrees of injuries today Monday 10 after a suspected Boko
Haram suicide bomber attacked
students of Senior Science Secondary School, Potiskum, Yobe state.
An eyewitness who confirmed the incident said the sight was too horrific to behold as the school compound was littered with body parts of these children who were waiting to be addressed by the school principal before the suicide bomber who probably may have worn same uniform with the students been and finally blew them up in pieces.
Another survivor, Musa Ibrahim Yahaya, who spoke to the AP news agency from his hospital bed, while receiving treatment for head injuries said:
“We were waiting for the principal to address us, around 7:30 a.m., when we heard a deafening sound and I was blown off my feet, people started screaming and running, I saw blood all over my body.”
A hospital staff in where some of the victims were been treated told an AFP reporter that he counted 48 corpses and other injured victims of the blast who may need amputations and other surgical procedures but claimed their major challenge was space accommodate all.
The Nigeria Police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu confirmed the incident and gave the casualty figures.
