Deadly bomb attacks rocked the capital Abuja and Borno State capital, Maiduguri last weekend.
Nigerian security agencies following the instructions of President Muhammadu Buhari have mounted surveillance across the country following multiple bomb blasts that hit Nyanya and Kuje, two satellite towns of the capital, Abuja on October 2, 2015 and Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in north eastern Nigeria.
Abuja Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ishayah Chonoko, This Day reported, said 59 people were affected by the blasts in the capital city, specifying that 18 persons lost their lives, while 41 others were injured. BBC further reported that five children, four girls and one boy, were behind a series of blasts in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Thursday, October 1, 2015. Fifteen people, including the bombers, died and more than 35 were injured in the attacks at a mosque and house of vigilante leader.
It is with the strong determination to face the mounting wave of bomb attacks and other attacks committed by suspected Boko Haram militants that President Buhari has ordered a nationwide surveillance. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in a statement quoted the president as directing the security services to raise their surveillance activities to meet the challenges of a retreating, desperate terrorist army and the general public to remain acutely aware of security in and around them.
"The defeat of Boko Haram insurgency is in sight, but to remove violence and make the country safe, we must tackle the prevalence of violent extremism,” Buhari is quoted as saying. President Buhari besides fighting insecurity, has also stepped up the fight against corruption, particularly in the oil sector. In this connection, Nigerian former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke has been arrested in London, BBC cited her family as saying. She is believed to be one of five people the United Kingdom National Crime Agency said it had arrested, but did not name, as part of an investigation into suspected bribery and money laundering.
