Suspected Islamist militants shot dead a traditional ruler in Nigeria's remote northeastern
Gombe state, as he left a mosque after last Friday prayers, witnesses and police said.

Alhaji Bello Kagarawal was walking out of the mosque after dark on Friday when the gunmen
sprang their attack, Gombe police spokesman Ahmed Gidaye Mohammed said.

He added that there was no known motive for the attack.

Islamist group Boko Haram has been waging a low level insurgency against Nigeria's government
since 2009, and has been blamed for hundreds of killings in gun and bomb attacks.

A movement styled on the Taliban, the sect says it wants to transform Nigeria, a country of
160 million people split evenly between Muslims and Christians, into an Islamic state.

Attacks usually target security forces, but authority figures, including traditional Islamic leaders
seen by the group as not sufficiently pious, are also frequently struck.

"The suspected Boko Haram sect members came and asked for the traditional ruler who was
about entering the mosque to say his prayers," said eyewitness Abubakar Abdulsalaw.

"When Alhaji heard them he turned and answered them and they pulled out their rifle and shot
him several times at close range. He slumped down and died."

A Briton and an Italian held hostage in Nigeria were killed by their captors on Thursday, after
being held for almost a year by what security officials said was a Boko Haram faction, although
a spokesman for the sect denied any involvement on Friday.

Boko Haram used to be confined to Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, but the sect, or
several factions of it, have spread out in the past six months to plague at least 10 states
across the north, and have struck the capital a few times.

A gun battle broke out on Friday between suspected Islamist militants and police in Nigeria's
biggest northern city of Kano, after gunmen opened fire on a police station.

http://news.yahoo.com/islamists-kill-traditional-ruler-nigerias-gombe-131021626.html

Our world is troubled can you guys sense it or its just me God help us

Oh God what our country turning into, GEJ is a serial failure. Let's be praying for our country pls.

Let's jez kip praying for our dear NATION

And what ve gej got to do wt it some stpidd ppl choose to kill them selves and someone is takin abt gej and failure abegi aboki kil aboki nobi news again.

Aboki kill aboki wetin I want make I talk? Haba mana!

"Let's call a spade a spade" is a statement used throughout the globe, but in nigeria what seems like a spade could be an axe.. This could well not be boko haram. Taking the words of the sky news west African correspondent "not all crimes associated with boko haram are perpetrated by the group because if you have an old score to settle or have a disagreement now is the time to use the boko haram problem to cover the crime."

which kind country be dis?

Na dir way....

Let dem kill demselves there. Aboki Kill Aboki, na cow dem be and na cow dem slaughter.

Suspected Islamist militants shot dead a traditional ruler in Nigeria's remote northeastern
Gombe state, as he left a mosque after last Friday prayers, witnesses and police said.

I am beginning to tire of the stu_pid reporting from Nigerian media houses. How can an article that includes above the above CONCLUDE that Boko haram did it?

princepee: And what ve gej got to do wt it some stpidd ppl choose to kill them selves and someone is takin abt gej and failure abegi aboki kil aboki nobi news again.

No offence,but when people like you comment,I get angry. It is not the president's duty to create & enforce a law-abiding & peaceful,violence-free environment? Do you know what government really means or have you been completely blinded by the failures of our leaders to give us basic provisions that you now think gej does not have any blame for being weak? It's funny that people like you would sycophantly defend Jonathan when there's trouble & claim there's nothing he can do but at parties & ceremonies & such eye-service occasions all of you would be worshipping the title "commander in chief", "president of the federal republic","chief security officer (CSO)""son of our land" etc. You think "commander in chief" or "chief security officer" is just a title for sycophants to idolize? You think those appointment titles are just for you to raise shoulders,toss your agbada & bounce? You think those appointment titles are only for good times? I now see why many blind people "voted gej & not pdp." Many of them don't know what true governance is. Every single president swears an oath of office on the day they assume office to protect the lives of ALL citizens regardless of religion,tribe,language,colour etc (or do you think swearing-in ceremonies are just to "come chop rice?" & Jonathan cannot even protect his own life Talkless of the whole nation. It's such a shame. Yes its true he cannot stop people from being killed a 100% but he can reduce & curb crime & terrorism drastically if he has sense. Jonathan would go into the history of forgotten people in the book of Nigeria if he doesn't wake up now. He's too dumb,weak & clueless. I don't have anything personal against Jonathan except for the fact that he doesn't have guts & leadership charisma/characteristics. He's a failure...I'm sorry to say.

Kobojunkie:

I am beginning to tire of the stu_pid reporting from Nigerian media houses. How can an article that includes above the above CONCLUDE that Boko haram did it?

Actually Boko Haram do kill muslims. All you need do as a muslim is tell them their ideology is misguided, you are dead!
This is one of the reasons people in the North don't speak against them so loudly. Americans can stand up to criminals because they know that the police will follow through on crimes, but not here in Nigeria