The Embassy of the United States, which is a few metres to the bombed UN building located on Diplomatic Road and its officials were seen responding to the terrorist attack with renewed tightening of security measures. Saturday Tribune noticed a sense of fear and apprehension at the Embassy, as vehicles were disallowed from packing opposite […]
No fewer than 18 people were feared dead and 48 injured when a suicide bomber attacked the United Nations office in Abuja on Friday. The attacker, reportedly drove through the exit and pulled down the first and second gates and entered the compound. According to a source, the attacker immediately alighted from a Honda Accord […]
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MEMBERS of the Boko Haram Islamic sect yesterday claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at the United Nations (UN) office in Abuja. In an interview, a spokesperson sect, Sheik Azzawahiri on Hamada Radio International monitored in Kaduna, said that, “the bomb blast that involved more than 20 people was certainly our work.” “We take full […]
BARELY two months after suspected members of Boko Haram sect threatened to attack Adamawa State, the group yesterday carried out the threat as its members attacked Gombi Local Council headquarters, allegedly killing 32 people, including a bank manager and several police officers. The incident occurred as more than15 suspected armed robbers allegedly swooped on two […]
GOVERNORS deplored yesterday’s bombing of the United Nations (UN) office in Abuja, describing the perpetrators of the heinous crime as enemies of Nigeria. The governors included Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, Theodore Orji (Abia) and Gabriel Suswam (Benue). Ajimobi, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Dr. Festus Adedayo, wondered what […]
UNITED Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is dispatching his deputy, the most senior UN official besides him, and other top officials of the UN to Abuja to find out details of yesterday’s attack on the UN building in Abuja. Speaking with reporters at the UN headquarters after the attack, Ban said: “I am asking the Deputy […]
UNITED States (US) President, Barack Obama, has condemned the bombing of the United Nations building in Abuja, saying that “the lasting bond” between the American people and Nigerians would only emerge stronger in the wake of the attack, which he described as a “murderous act.” In a release by the White House after the attack […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Friday “utterly” condemned the suicide attack on the United Nations’ Building in Abuja, describing it as “barbaric, senseless and cowardly.” The President said “the attack is a most despicable assault on the United Nations’ objectives of global peace and security, and the sanctity of human life to which Nigeria wholly subscribes.” […]
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