Gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram had laid siege on historic town of Old Maiduguri, neighbouring town to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, killing seven people between February 12 and Sunday morning.

The killings in old Maiduguri within Jere local government area of the state was followed by a deafening bomb blast and subsequent exchange of gunfire between members of the dreaded Islamic sect and soldiers around the popular Gamboru market within the Maiduguri metropolis.

It was gathered that the gunmen crept into old Maiduguri at about 9p.m. on Saturday and killed a Chadian, whose name remained a mystery as at the time of filing this report alongside with his wife.

The killer equally slaughtered another man, a Shuwa Arab, in the same neighbourhood just moments after the killing of the Chadian couple.

Just when the neighbourhood thought the last had been seen of the killers and they had gone to bed, they were visited again as they sent an Islamic scholar and three of his students to an early grave.

Eyewitnesses said the killers were in the neighbourhood at about 12midnight Saturday when the popular Islamic scholar and three of his teenage students were killed.

In the incident at the Gamboru market area, it was gathered that there was a deafening bomb blast at about 1am yesterday. The explosion was visited by sporadic exchange of gunfire between the sect members and the soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force (JTF).

The residents of the area[b] could not however disclosed [/b]the number of casualty, one of them insisted that those killed were evacuated before break of day.

Some of them who spoke anonymously to THISDAY said they got to known that the corpses were taken to the morgue of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH).

A source at the hospital who revealed that corpses were deposited by soldiers early morning Sunday, however, could not state the number of corpses deposited.

When confirmation was source from the spokesman of the JTF, Lt. Col Hassan Mohammed on the killings he advised that the police should be approached for information on the issue.

But on the bomb blast at the Gamboru market area, he said "no news like that has come to my knowledge so I cannot confirm anything.”

When the Borno State Police Commissioner, Simeon Midenda was called on his phone for confirmation by journalists, he said he was away in Abuja on official duty and advised that the Police Public Relations Officer, Samuel Tizhe, who was on ground should be approached for information.

But an attempt to get him proved abortive as his mobile was switched off when[b] call was placed on it last night[/b].

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/boko-haram-kills-7-in-borno/109181/

Boko haram has been slaughtering people for the last 7 days.Over 50 people were killed,the nigerian press is so useless

pinkymami:

This is sad indeed,just very pathetic.smh.

Very pathetic indeed.

pinkymami:

This is sad indeed,just very pathetic.smh.

Very pathetic indeed.

na wa oh

They promise to go after those that betrayed them and those that preach against them.

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See casualties mounting yet silence; but let there be one Ibgo or Christian victim and you will see the whole Nigerian press in overdrive with sensational headlines and the Ohaneze ppl running from pillar to post trying to claim Igbos are being targeted for whatever reasons (real and imagined).

hey Aboki, hold it there.
When clans in Ebonyi decided to decimate one another, nobody called the north into it.
But when you make ethnic cleansing trans-nationality, be sure people will cry out.
Life is precious across whatever borders. But don,t expect others to define its sanctity for you when you don't value yours.

Thisday journalists always killing Nigerians left right and centre!!!

cooked up news with plenty bullets, kpow kpow!!

Boko Haram Kills 7 In Borno: Were Thisday`s Editors And Proofreaders Too Killed

Dude. . .what's YOUR excuse?     

knotty:

hey Aboki, hold it there.
When clans in Ebonyi decided to decimate one another, nobody called the north into it.
But when you make ethnic cleansing trans-nationality, be sure people will cry out.
Life is precious across whatever borders. But don,t expect others to define its sanctity for you when you don't value yours.

So much big grammar yet no more different than the others in error before him.

The thread is clearly about Boko Haram killings in relation to the mainstream press seeming selective responsiveness to when only certain ethnicity and religious followers are affected.

Unfortunately, your reference to ethnic cleansing in the North (which still presupposes certain ethnic groups are being targeted) goes a long way to uphold the above view and to further suggest that the Nigerian press (which as we all know is primarily owned and dominated by the Christian South) is largely responsible for shaping the thoughts and minds of today's youths (such as yours) into bigots by feeding them distorted information in line with a political agenda - a.k.a. propaganda.