At least 20 separate blasts went off on Friday in Kano city, Nigeria’s second largest commercial city.

Residents said the bombs exploded simultaneously after the first one went off around five in the evening, causing panic all over the city. Thick smoke could also be seen rising in many parts as the whole town was suddenly shut down.

The Federal Police headquarters in the city was hit in one of the attacks, blowing off the roof while a number of other police stations including the ones at Naibawa, Dakata Farm Centre and BUK Road were also hit.

The State Security Service offices and the Immigration Service were also hit in the bomb attacks.

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A series of explosions has rocked Kano, the biggest city in northern Nigeria.

One of the blasts killed two police officers at the federal police headquarters in the city, AFP reports. Attacks have been reported on at least three other police stations.

The authorities in Kano state have imposed an immediate 24-hour curfew.

The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility. The group has been behind a recent campaign of violence in the mainly Muslim north.

The BBC's Yusuf Yakasai in Kano says there was panic in the city as plumes of smoke rose into the sky.

Our reporter says that besides the police headquarters in the west of the city, police stations in near the centre and the south were targeted.

There has also been a shoot-out at another important police building in the east of the city.

A resident near the city centre told the BBC that he had seen bodies being carried out of a police station near the city centre, but did not know if they were injured or dead.

A reporter for the AP news agency said one of the explosions was powerful enough to shake his car several miles away.

Claim of responsibility
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden", has said it carried out the attacks.

A spokesman for the group, Abul Qaqa, told journalists in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, the group's base, that it had carried out the attacks because the authorities had refused to release members arrested in Kano.

The group wants to establish Islamic law in Nigeria. It started to stage drive-by shootings in 2010 on government targets in Maiduguri.

Analysts say this is one of Boko Haram's largest simultaneous attacks, and certainly its largest assault on Kano.

It stepped up its attacks in 2011, targeting police headquarters and the UN in the capital Abuja.

In recent weeks, southerners, who are mostly Christians or animists, living in the north have been the targets of deadly attacks.

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the ignorance,hate and blindness of a fanatical christian missionary:

boko haram,the criminals causing destrcution are representatives of Islam,but the Muslims who fall victims to boko haram are not "muslim"!!!

they do anything and say anything just to preach against Islam!!!

read reply to "frosbel":

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-850902.160.html#msg10010493

LagosShia:

the ignorance,hate and blindness of a fanatical christian missionary:

boko haram,the criminals causing destrcution are representatives of Islam,but the Muslims who fall victims to boko haram are not "muslim"!!!

they do anything and say anything just to preach against Islam!!!

read reply to "frosbel":

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-850902.160.html#msg10010493

Why are you playing the ostrich? Is it not a muslim sect that has the ideology,"western education is bad"(boko haram)?

5solas:

Why are you playing the ostrich? Is it not a muslim sect that has the ideology,"western education is bad"(boko haram)?

they are stu.pid because in essence there is nothing like "western education".when has reading,writing,research and knowledge of sciences become "western" and "eastern"?

and you are stu.pid like them for condoling their stupidity which is killing innocent muslims in the north as well as innocent christians.the fanatical propagandist christian missionaries are unbelievably happy and overjoyed by the reality of boko haram and its menace.they see it as business as usual just like their fake miracles lied on the name of God.they happily want to make boko haram (which is evil and un-islamic in its methods) to look more islamic than islam itself and all the world's muslims.they want to make evil islam.they want the wrong things which islam opposes quite clearly look as if it is islam.they want to make everyone hallucinate that it is boko haram is that practicing islam while the overwhelming majority of muslims are not"true muslims".

i just have to say that such assumptions are not what islam teaches and what muslims are taught to believe.such assumptions about islam are what christianity teaches its own people to hate muslims and islam.so what you are preaching against islam is not what we believe but what you believe.those are your own fake,missionary and distorted "islamic" beliefs.they got nothing to do with islam and the overwhelming majority of muslims.

LagosShia , you have all it takes to become a terrorist.

It is people like you that they want to recruit.

You have all the traits of a Boko Haram supporter.

LagosShia:

i just have to say that such assumptions are not what islam teaches and what muslims are taught to believe.such assumptions about islam are what christianity teaches its own people to hate muslims and islam.so what you are preaching against islam is not what we believe but what you believe.those are your own fake,missionary and distorted "islamic" beliefs.they got nothing to do with islam and the overwhelming majority of muslims.

What a load of trash ,

Islam in it's true form is = Death

frosbel:

LagosShia , you have all it takes to become a terrorist.

It is people like you that they want to recruit.

You have all the traits of a Boko Haram supporter.

christians like you are no different from boko haram.

you still have the time and energy to mislead and deceive people.by the time your tricks are no longer working,you'd be exactly like boko haram.the only difference between you and them is that you are dormant awaiting activation.

as for me,far from it.i follow Islam and not the desires of men.Islam makes me what it is and i dont make Islam what i am.