At Least 12 Killed in Suicide Blasts in North Nigeria

At least 12 people were killed on Wednesday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok where Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 girls almost two years ago, police and residents said.

Boko Haram has been waging a six-year armed campaign in Nigeria's remote north to build an Islamic state. Thousands have been killed and more than two million people displaced by the campaign, reports Reuters.

North Won’t Break Away From Nigeria – Arewa Consultative Forum

The pan-northern socio-political organisation, the Arewa Consultative Forum, has declared that the North has no plan to break out from Nigeria.

The forum also frowned at the constant unguarded comments by a former civilian governor of Kaduna State and a leader of the Conference of National Political Parties, Alhaji Balarabe Musa.

ACF called on the statesmen and others to employ civility and maturity in their utterances.

The ACF was reacting to an interview granted by Musa to one of the national dailies where he was quoted as saying that, “I have regarded Afenifere, ACF, Ohanaeze and surrogates, like the APC, as socialist secessionist groups in Nigeria, even though they talk about federalism.”