ARTICLES RELATING TO
CHURCH BOMBINGS
The Police Command in Kano State promised to provide adequate security to ensure hitch-free Christmas and New Year celebrations.
This Christmas, the police and military are expecting more trouble in the north and ordered security to be tightened and churches to be guarded.
Reports say two suicide bombs have killed at least 11 people and injured about 30 at a church in a barracks in Kaduna.
Conveners and members of Inter-faith Activities and Partners for Peace (IFAPP), said the bombing of a church in Kaduna was a fundamentally criminal act.
The church bombing attack in Kaduna has killed eight people, wounded 100 and triggered reprisal attacks that killed at least two more.
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has condemned the bomb explosion at the St. John’s Catholic Cathedral in Bauchi.
A suicide bomber has attacked a Catholic church in the northern region and numerous people have been injured or killed in the blast.
The Nigerian Army has distributed a new anti-bombing device to churches in an effort to stop church bombings.
The Police in Kaduna State said they had arrested 147 youths for alleged involvement in reprisal attacks in Kaduna.
Kaduna State Governor says the state government has no plan to compensate victims of recent unrest in the state.
Bayelsa State Governor has directed that steps should be taken to safeguard the lives of Bayelsa students in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
The Kaduna State Government has relaxed the 24-hour curfew imposed on the state following a gradual return of peace to the state.
Kaduna residents have replenished their foodstuff and other essential items, following the relaxing of the 24-hour curfew in the state.
Children in Kaduna have now turned some of the streets in the metropolis to football pitches because of the curfew in the area.
Gov. Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State has relaxed the 24-hour curfew imposed on the state by four hours.
