[An Nahar] An kaboom went off outside a nightclub in the Nigerian capital Abuja, breaking windows and damaging cars, but no casualties were reported, the country's emergency agency said on Saturday."No human casualty," Yushau Shuaib, front man for the National Emergency Management Agency, said of the blast late Friday. "The explosives were suspected to have been planted on a tree opposite Kryxtal Lounge."
| They killed a tree?!? The bastards!! |
Nigeria has been hit by scores of bombings blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
, including some in and around Abuja.
A suicide kaboom on U.N. headquarters in Abuja in August killed at least 25 people, while another at the Abuja office of one of the country's most prominent newspapers left at least four dead.
On Friday, 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...
fired his national security adviser and defense minister as fears mounted over spiraling unrest in the country's north, where Boko Haram's insurgency has been based.