Nigeria gas depot blast was suicide bombing


July 10, 2014
By Robin Dixon

Nigeria's nightmare scenario has been this: Islamist militias waging terror in the country's northeast launch attacks in distant Lagos, a chaotic megacity of about 20 million in the southeast and the country's economic engine.
Two weeks ago, Islamic extremists from Boko Haram, or an offshoot group, did attack Lagos, according to security analysts who believe the government and security forces hid the truth.
A female suicide bomber parked her car next to a gasoline tanker in Lagos' Apapa district beside a fuel depot and blew herself up June 25, said security analysts who viewed photographs of the aftermath. Moments earlier, an improvised bomb was thrown over a nearby fence, the analysts said.

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NDLEA arrests 4 suspects for trafficking 4.58kg of narcotics
August 20, 2010

A drug trafficking suspect who said he needed money to bury his late father, ran into trouble as he was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, with 62 wraps of 750 grammes of narcotics, which he swallowed in Benin City.
The suspect, Tony Ubebe, based in Italy, travelled from Benin to catch a flight to Europe when he was caught.

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Kalashnikov rifles seized in Nigeria
August 19, 2010

Maiduguri, Nigeria - Officials with Nigeria's security services say they have intercepted 52 Kalashnikov rifles and more than 1 700 rounds of ammunition heading for an area that has been the scene of religious violence.
The Borno state director of the Nigeria State Security Service says five men were arrested for trying to bring the weapons from neighboring Chad.

Director Abdullahi Ahmed told reporters on Wednesday that the men hid the rifles, ammunition and about $32 000 underneath vegetables and dried fish in two cars. Ahmed says the weapons were heading for Jos, the epicenter of religious violence in Nigeria's "middle belt", where dozens of ethnic groups vie for control of fertile lands.Hundreds of Christians and Muslims have died in fighting there this year alone. - Sapa-AP

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