A BBC reporter has counted 100 bodies, mostly of militants, near the police headquarters in Maiduguri, Borno State, where hundreds are fleeing their homes.

Witnesses told the BBC a gun battle raged for hours in Potiskum, Yobe State and a police station was set on fire.

Some of the militants follow a preacher who campaigns against Western schools.

The corpses of civilians are scattered around the streets of Maiduguri, after being pulled from their cars and shot, eyewitnesses say.

The police and army are patrolling, firing into the air, apparently trying to clear civilians from the area.

A. Hundred. And. Fifty !!!

What kind of debased ideology would choose to attack educational attainment as its cause celebre in a country where their brothers down south are fighting for economic empowerment and fair treatment and the whole of Nigeria is trying hard to figure out how to survive. Yet these bastards are fighting to keep wallowing in stupidity, ignorance, and poverty. You know what Bleep these assholes.

THEY HAVE THE OIL, THEY RUN THE NNPC, THEY RUN THE GOVERMENT, THEY CONTROL THE ARMY , THEY CONTROL ABUJA,
LUKMAN IS BACK AGAIN AS PETRUOLEM OGA, THEY WANT PTI IN EFFURRUN MOVED TO THE NORTH

LOOK OH LOOK

NOW THEY WANT THE NATION

NA TODAY ONE DAY THE SOUTH WE WAKE UP, TO THE ISSUES THAT WE SWEEP UNDER THE CARPET AT HOME AND AT ABURI

ONE NIGERIA

i am not sure i really know what this is all about.

What out for 2morow dailies headline as someone said in a similar thread.

"Yaradua Laments Religious killings in Maiduguri and Bauchi"

He ll surely lament,after all his solutuion to Oshodi-Apapa road mess is lamentation.
Lamenting presido,kindy make lamentation ur best bible chapter.

THEY HAVE THE OIL, THEY RUN THE NNPC, THEY RUN THE GOVERMENT, THEY CONTROL THE ARMY , THEY CONTROL ABUJA,
LUKMAN IS BACK AGAIN AS PETRUOLEM OGA, THEY WANT PTI IN EFFURRUN MOVED TO THE NORTH

LOOK OH LOOK

NOW THEY WANT THE NATION

NA TODAY ONE DAY THE SOUTH WE WAKE UP, TO THE ISSUES THAT WE SWEEP UNDER THE CARPET AT HOME AND AT ABURI
ONE NIGERIA

Brilliant statement!

hmmmm
May God protect ordinary folks who reside in the north

nura_abi:

THEY HAVE THE OIL, THEY RUN THE NNPC, THEY RUN THE GOVERMENT, THEY CONTROL THE ARMY , THEY CONTROL ABUJA,
LUKMAN IS BACK AGAIN AS PETRUOLEM OGA, THEY WANT PTI IN EFFURRUN MOVED TO THE NORTH

LOOK OH LOOK

NOW THEY WANT THE NATION

NA TODAY ONE DAY THE SOUTH WE WAKE UP, TO THE ISSUES THAT WE SWEEP UNDER THE CARPET AT HOME AND AT ABURI

ONE NIGERIA

Why do you want aburi ressurrected now since a large section of nigeria do not want aburi accord?

Allah aku ba allah.

This no be police matter. We need JTF in the north, with fighter planes and grenade launchers to do some peace keeping.

Bauchi - Bauchi, the capital city of Bauchi State, was awash with bloodbath early morning yesterday as scores of religious fundamentalists were killed after a failed attack on a police station.
Official estimates put the death toll at 32, but the figure is not less than 150, according to correspondents who said they counted the bodies.
A group called "Boko Haram" ("education is sin", which has been campaigning for the imposition of Sharia'h (Islamic law) on the 36 states of the Nigerian federation, was said to have sparked off the crisis when its members launched an attack on the station.
Reuters news agency quoted a member of the group, who was wounded during the initial attack on the station, as saying the group wanted to "clean the (Nigerian) system which is polluted by western education and uphold Sharia'h all over the country".
"The police has (have) been arresting our leaders; that is why we decided to retaliate," said the man, who gave his name only as Abdullah, according to the news agency.
Meanwhile, the state Governor, Mallam Isa Yuguda, has described the fundamentalists as militants, urging Nigerians to see it as a national issue.
Daily Trust
Arrested Sect Members in Bauchi, Nigeria.
"Their plan is to attack everybody," he said, while announcing a curfew from 9pm to 6am. "Governors should brace up and clean their states of this rubbish."
THISDAY gathered that the sect struck around the Federal Low-cost Housing Estate and Dutsen Tanshi areas in the early hours of yesterday.
They were said to be reacting to the refusal of the Bauchi State government to allow a free atmosphere to publicly practise their religion as well as win more souls to the sect.
The newspaper learnt that members of the sect had been planning a demonstration in Bauchi for a long time now but were not given the chance because of the fear by government that their doctrine, if allowed to be preached publicly, could cause a religious crisis.
Their teachings are regarded as completely out of tune with the teachings of other Islamic sects, especially regarding peaceful co-existence.
The sect members, in their hundreds, trooped to the Dutsen Tanshi Police Station in the early hours of the day and attacked it, chasing away the few policemen on duty and forcing themselves into the station before destroying anything they could lay their hands on.
But they could not break into the armoury which was under lock and key.
After a distress call by the policemen to the Command headquarters, a reinforcement of armed policemen, including men from the mobile unit, was drafted to the area to ward off the fundamentalists during which some of them were killed and several others injured.
The Bauchi State Police Command, through the PPRO, Mohammed Barau, confirmed the incident, saying more policemen had been drafted to the area to maintain order and security.
He said other security measures had been taken to ensure that the crisis did not spread beyond the area, adding that as soon as the state command got clearance from the Police Headquarters in Abuja, it would officially make a pronouncement.
As at the time of this report, the combined military and police patrol teams had gone round the villages in Bauchi to fish out some of the fundamentalists who had escaped from their Bauchi base.
In his reaction, Minister of Police Affairs, Ibrahim Yakubu Lame, declared that the Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Ogbonnaya Onovo, had been ordered to ensure peace and security of lives and properties of citizens across the country.
He said inasmuch as the government was committed to freedom of religion, it would not condone any fundamentalist who would bring about breakdown of law and order in the country.
Though the Director of Press Affairs to the Governor, Mohammed Maigari Khanna, and other top government functionaries were seen at the Police Command Headquarters, they refused to make any comment on the development, but promised that as soon as the situation was properly studied, government would make its position known.
The Nigerian Taliban, according to an AFP report, made its debut in 2004 when it set up a base - dubbed Afghanistan - in Kanamma village in northern Yobe State, on the border with Niger, from where it attacked police outposts and killed police officers.
Its membership is mainly drawn from university dropouts.
Religious clashes between Muslims and Christians in Bauchi State led to the death of five people in February.

asha 80:

Why do you want aburi ressurrected now since a large section of nigeria do not want aburi accord?

maybe in the north. In the south people are gradually waking up to the fact that the civil war was an opportunity lost to free ourselves from the grip of animals.

davidylan:

maybe in the north. In the south people are gradually waking up to the fact that the civil war was an opportunity lost to free ourselves from the grip of animals.

I don't believe this broda. Some still see the civil war as Igbo/Biafra greediness. I think many more incidence like this that will touch many need to occur b4 they see the reality.

Southern People zombie past the northern zombies.
Zombie will not lead person wey sabi pass am.
Zombie can only lead person wey zombie pass am
Therefor South Zombie pass North.
Because North d lead South and south obeys what ever north says.

I can't believe this!
Mayhem in northern nigeria again?!?
What in the world caused it this time?

A HUNDRED AND FIFTY!!!!! :oAH AH, NA WA O, I TIRE FOR THIS COUNTRY!!!

This no be police matter. We need JTF in the north, with fighter planes and grenade launchers to do some peace keeping.

JTF comprises of ~80% islamic militants,  this' why they're ruthless to the Niger Delta people. The main agenda of these militants is to return the country back to military rule, hence sharia law nation-wide, and the Niger Delta people will then be subdued, and their crude proceeds subverted with impunity. "Waffi, Sapele, PH, Shine your eye o!"