[size=13pt]Panic as bomb is discovered in Lagos[/size]

By Evelyn Usman and Ifeanyin Okolie




Ikeja area of Lagos was, Wednesday, thrown into panic following report of the discovery of substance suspected to a bomb, in one of the offices in Ikeja Local Government.

Staff and those who came for different transactions, rushed out of the building with some car owners abandoning their vehicles as they fled for dear life.

A multiple auto crash was also averted as motorists including commercial motorcyclists plying the route hurriedly made u-turn.

Traders were not left out as some of them managed to lock up their shops and vacated the area.

Report said the combustive substance was planted and connected to an air conditioner behind the councils’ doctor’s office. It was reportedly discovered by one of the staff who was at the verge of putting on the air conditioner.

Unconfirmed reports said bomb experts who arrived the scene later stated that the substance would have exploded if the air conditioner was put on.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Yakubu Alkali, who was having a security meeting with his senior officers at the time of the incident, reportedly drafted some policemen to the scene.

Policemen from the Bomb Disposal Unit who promptly arrived the local government, directed that all vehicles be removed from the premises as they went about their search for the combustive substance which they later discovered.

The Council Secretary who gave his name as Hon. Ayodele told Vanguard that the policemen from bomb squad promised to take the substance to the laboratory to ascertain whether it was an explosive or not.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Samuel Jinadu, who was also at the scene, told journalists that the substance was not an explosive . But he did not state what exactly it was.

Jinadu disclosed that prior to the bomb scare, policemen from Bomb Disposal Unit had gone on awareness campaign on bombs round many institutions in the state.

However, despite assurances by the police that the substance was not bomb, none of the local government staff dared to go inside as they all stayed out of the area for fear of another explosive material. As at the time of going to press, story of the bomb scare had spread all over the city heightening earlier fears that the dreaded Boko Haram group may have finally focused attention in Lagos.

It would be recalled that in the past weeks, rumors of threats by the group to bomb the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos has been on the air with security agents assuring that there was no truth in it.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/panic-as-alleged-bomb-found-at-ikeja-lg/

Na Wa O. wat is going on?

Gen gen

Looks like an hoax

if they try bomb lagos,which i doubt,but if they try it biko! many mallam life go lost! Because my ppl no dey joke for lagos.

Looks like two huge loafs of bread wrapped in orange bags to me. . . .

[size=15pt]Lord have mercy.[/size]

May God save lagos frm BH.

seedord247:

Gen gen

Action Film,

Boko Haram in Action!  

Some people are already implicating Boko haram. Is it every bombing act is BH? I dont think so.

I highly doubt the involvement of BH in this because if they want to bomb lagos why go to a local govt house in Ikeja? why not start with MMA or other national/international installation instead of a local area?

I think it is a Yoruba man that have issues with the LGA chairman plain and simple, This is not BH abeggi

Panic every where. Too bad, a nation without security.

lord have mercy plssssssssssssssss

i   can't   beleive   you   actually   find   this   funny,   innocent   lives   could   have   been   lost  and   for  what   reason?   The  government  needs   to  take   some proactive  measures   to   stem  this   ugly   trend  of bombings.   We  are  not  at  war  fo   christ  sake.

££VICTOR££:

Action Film,

Boko Haram in Action!  

igbo boy:

Some people are already implicating Boko haram. Is it every bombing act is BH? I dont think so.

I highly doubt the involvement of BH in this because if they want to bomb lagos why go to a local govt house in Ikeja? why not start with MMA or other national/international installation instead of a local area?

I think it is a Yoruba man that have issues with the LGA chairman plain and simple, This is not BH abeggi

You don start again Authentic Eediot.

just answer the question below.

what's the capital of Igbo

A) crime.

B) Blood money

C) Drug Dealer

D) All of the above

Kobojunkie:

Looks like two huge loafs of bread wrapped in orange bags to me. . . .

igbo boy:

Some people are already implicating Boko haram. Is it every bombing act is BH? I dont think so.

I highly doubt the involvement of BH in this because if they want to bomb lagos why go to a local govt house in Ikeja? why not start with MMA or other national/international installation instead of a local area?

I think it is a [b]Yoruba [/b]man that have issues with the LGA chairman plain and simple, This is not BH abeggi

didn't know Nigeria had a [b]Yoruba [/b]tribe

na wa ooo!!!!! wat r dis security agents doing

People pls this is no joking matter, and this ia no time for fighting. the boko haram want to stike fear into lagosians to make them know they are not immune to bombing but we have to fight back against this fiends. corruption, bribes and partiality are what caused all this enough is enough i say nigeria should go foward ever and backward never, don't blame other tribes we have to stike this boko haram once and for all.

This is a wake up call that the treat is real. The government can't fight it alone! we all have to help the government to put an end to it. it was tried in Lagos in the past and it worked, the solution is we set dem on fire before dey bomb us. Same punishment that apply to thief will be apply to dem!

Kobojunkie:

Looks like two huge loafs of bread wrapped in orange bags to me. . . .

If thats what they look like, then they are all yours.

@OP----I also dont think Boko Haram has anything to do with this. It makes no sense bombing a LGA in lagos

mr_man:

i   can't   beleive   you   actually   find   this   funny,   innocent   lives   could   have   been   lost  and   for  what   reason?   The  government  needs   to  take   some proactive  measures   to   stem  this   ugly   trend  of bombings.   We  are  not  at  war  fo   christ  sake.

It's not funny to you, But might be funny to others,

Nigerians beware any piece of Akara you see on the floor, dont step on it, It might explode,

When they came for the Russian, I kept quite because I was not Russian,

When they came for the Jew, I kept quiet, I was not Jewish,

When they came for my neighbour, I kept quiet, it was not me.

When they came for me, no one was left to speak for me.

Vanguard sef!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

see disjointed news article!

The headline: Bomb discovered in Lagos

The link address: alleged bomb discovered in Lagos

In the report: The Council Secretary who gave his name as Hon. Ayodele told Vanguard that the policemen from bomb squad promised to take the substance to the laboratory to ascertain whether it was an explosive or not.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Samuel Jinadu, who was also at the scene, t[b]old journalists that the substance was not an explosive[/b] . But he did not state what exactly it was.

However, despite assurances by the police that the substance was not bomb, none of the local government staff dared to go inside as they all stayed out of the area for fear of another explosive material.

So Vanguard has in house bomb squad that can tell definitely a bomb from all else. Boko Haram Journalist!

Was only a matter of time. God help us now.

Kobojunkie:

Looks like two huge loafs of bread wrapped in orange bags to me. . . .

Not funny. May be you are safely hiding in that hole in Ohio, please do give others whose life is at risk and the ones who lost theirs in Nigeria through these bombeRHarams some respect.

Kobojunkie:

Looks like two huge loafs of bread wrapped in orange bags to me. . . .

Funny enough, the stuff had a funny looking label like agege bread

Lol @ "Mr Samuel Jinadu, who was also at the scene, told journalists that the substance was not an explosive . But he did not state what exactly it was."

Only in Lagos do people run when nothing or nobody's pursueing. Eko for show.

May God almighty save the helpless in this country and may he expose all this blood tasty people.

executinal:

Please people do u think if it was a real bomb we would be here talking all this. We would have been counting our lost. Lagosians please whether it was BH or not, please bring down all the BH look alike as Hitler did to d Jews. Later, we go complete d yarns.