48 killed and 79 injured in suicide attack in all-boys school in Nigeria

48 students were killed and 79 injured in a suicide attack on an all-boys school in Yobe district of north Nigeria – the school followed a western curriculum and the local police suspect that Boko Haram is behind this terror attack. The death toll could rise.
The suicide bomber was dressed in school uniform and detonated the bomb during morning assembly. He had gained entry through the schoolyard in Potiskum, Yobe state, before carrying out the attack among the students.
The students of the Government Comprehensive Senior Science Secondary School in Potiskum were waiting to hear the principal's daily address when the suicide bomber struck just before 8am. The attack happened a day after the release of a new Boko Haram video in which the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, had once again rejected the claims of the Nigerian government about a ceasefire and peace talks.
The most high profile attack by Boko Haram on a school was in April, when fighters kidnapped 276 teenage girls from the town of Chibok in Borno state, also in northeast Nigeria. Even now, over six months later, 219 of the girls are still being held prisoners.

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen attack Nigerian College – at least 15 killed and 35 injured

Gunmen suspected to belong to the Boko Haram Islamist group have reportedly stormed a higher education college in northern Nigeria and fired on fleeing students and set off an explosion in an attack that killed at least 15 people and left another 35 wounded 35 dailymail.co.uk. The college was the Federal College of Education in Kano.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack in the region's main city of Kano, but the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, had been repeatedly targeting civilians in the north and is likely to be a prime suspect. Police that arrived at the scene have killed two of the attackers.
Incidentally, members of Boko Haram, whose name means 'Western education is forbidden', are fighting to carve out an Islamic state in Nigeria and keep targeting western-style schools. Their attacks have been involved in several secondary school massacres and the abduction of 200 school girls in April from the village of Chibok.
Of course, they do not attack schools that teach Islamic doctrines.
The administration of President Goodluck Jonathan along with the armed forces face of Nigeria have been criticized for their inability to counter the threats of Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram militants seize Bama town in Borno, Nigeria

Boko Haram, the dreaded militant Islamist group of Nigeria has seized the key north-eastern town of Bama after fierce fighting with government forces and thousands of civilians have fled the town.
It seems Boko Haram captured Bama – as per the 2006 census, its population was about 270,000.
The militants had apparently arrived in tanks and armored trucks and first seized the military barracks in the town. Many of the residents fled on foot, some of them walked all the way to Maiduguri.,br> The Military sources have said that the army was still in control of Bama which is the second biggest town in Borno state. As per reports of Nigerian security sources, the assault had been repelled and about 70 militants had been killed. Borno state had been in the news because, in April, the militants had captured more than 200 teenage girls from a boarding school in the town of Chibok.
Boko Haram had recently declared that it had established an Islamic state in the towns and villages it controls in north-eastern Nigeria.
The capture of Bama by Boko Haram is seen by observers as an extremely significant development because it would raise concerns that the next target of the militants will be Maiduguri, the state capital about 70-Km away.
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