... 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...
suicide kaboom of a secondary school in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
has risen to 58, a school official told AFP on Wednesday.
"From records at our disposal, the corpse count now stands at 58 while the number of those injured has soared to 117," said the official at the school in Potiskum, Yobe state.
A bomber disguised in school uniform went
kaboom!as students gathered for morning assembly at the Government Comprehensive Senior Science Secondary School before classes began on Monday.
Federal police previously gave the corpse count as 47 with 79 injured and said that Boko Haram, which is opposed to so-called Western or secular education, was believed to be responsible.
The attack was one of the worst against a state-run school in Boko Haram's bloody five-year insurgency, which has seen boarding school students killed in their beds.
The group was also responsible for the mass kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from the northeastern town of Chibok in Borno state in April. More than six months on, 219 are still being held.
The school official asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorised to talk to the media.
He said the higher toll was because many of the dead and injured were taken straight home rather than to hospital until an appeal was made by the state government.
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...
, announcing his bid for re-election on Tuesday, described the Potiskum attack as "a dark cloud on our nation" but vowed to defeat the holy warriors.