Boko Haram Bombs Kano Islamic College For Legal Studies

Suspected members of the dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram, have reportedly bombed Kano Islamic Legal Studies college.

Leadership reports that the explosion happened at about 2.45pm on July 30, 2014,Wednesday.

According to Vanguard, a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the school premises, while students were checking their results on the notice board. This is the forth time in a week the young women ended their lives by blowing themselves in the city.

Directior General of the National Orientation Agency, Mike Omerri, informed the newsmen that six persons were killed by the blast. About seven people have been wounded. At the same time, Nigeria Police Force put the number of the deceased to three.

The college was established in 1976 as a training centre under Kano state judiciary in order to train middle level personnel for the Area Courts (now Shari’a courts). It was located within the school for Arabic Studies (SAS), Kano as its temporary site with only four teaching staff and twenty students.

The college found itself under the Kano state Polytechnic in 1987. In 2012 the approval was granted to the college by the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) to run the NCE programme.

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The Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, in Hausa language means "Western education is sin”. The terrorist group which has its stronghold in the northeastern part of Nigeria has killed thousands of innocent citizens in its quest to Islamise the country and stop what it termed ‘westernisation’.

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Boko Haram, which was designated a terrorist group by the US in 2013, became very violent after the extrajudicial killing of its founder, Mohammed Yusuf, in police custody in 2009. The sect’s activities are yet to be fully curtailed by the Nigerian security operatives. On July 28, the sect successfully carried out a bomb attack in Kano State, while on Tuesday, July 29, 2014, the terrorist group also reportedly bombed a mosque in Yobe State close to the palace of the Emir of Potiskum. 

Meanwhile, as part of reaction to insurgents’ incessant bombings and maiming, the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday July 27, 2014, advised the Federal Government to apologise to Boko Haram over the murder of their leader, Mohammed Yusuf.