KANO IN TROUBLE AGAIN.

A suicide bomber
targeted students at a technical
college in Nigeria's second city
of Kano on Wednesday as the
campus reopened following a
Muslim holiday, witnesses said.
Details on casualties were not
immediately known after the
sixth attack in the key northern
city in the last week, with the
violence blamed on Boko
Haram members who are
waging a brutal five-year
insurgency.
The bomber targeted students
who had crammed around a
notice board to check their
assignments for a mandatory
government programme
known as the National Youth
Service Corps (NYSC).
"It was a huge crowd and
people were jostling to go
through the lists," said witness
Isyaku Adamu.
"A huge explosion" by a
bomber who was embedded
within the crowd caused
casualties, he said, but the
scene was too chaotic for him
to assess any loss of life.
Accounting student Kabir
Muazu said he was sitting in a
nearby lecture hall when a
massive blast rang out.
"We all rushed to find out what
it was," and saw the damage of
the latest suicide attack in the
embattled city, he said.
Kano has been hit by Boko
Haram repeatedly through the
group's uprising aimed at
creating a strict Islamic state in
the mainly Muslim country.
But the city saw a clear decline
in violence earlier this year, as
the insurgents appeared to be
concentrating on their
stronghold in the remote
northeast.
But the militants have since
April carried out waves of
strikes in major cities across
the north and centre of the
country, underscoring the
grave threat they pose to
Nigeria, Africa's most populous
country and top oil producer.