A neighborhood leader who also works as a prison warden, Ibrahim Ali Figidi, was bumped off outside his house by two men who decamped on a cycle of violence in the typical hit-and-run style of the Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or
Big Louie...
sect.
"They knocked on his door and he came out to see who the visitor was. They shot him three times and decamped. We still don't know who the attackers are," Bauchi police front man Mohammed Barau told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Attacks blamed on Boko Haram have been concentrated in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, but the sect that launched a botched uprising in 2009 has also been active in Bauchi.
Bomb blasts rocked an outdoor bar and killed more than a dozen people hours after President
Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
was sworn in on May 29. Boko Haram, also known as the Nigerian Taliban, grabbed credit for that attack.
A day later, gunnies hurled a bomb and fired shots at a cop shoppe in Bulkacuwa, 180 kilometers north of the capital, killing one policeman.
In September last year, Boko Haram attacked a prison in Bauchi and freed more than 700 inmates.
Bauchi is one of the predominantly Mohammedan northern states hard hit by post-election riots that left 800 dead in April.
Boko Haram has been blamed for dozens of killings in the northeast of the country, where it targets security forces and community leaders.