A suicide bomber in Borno State has killed 29 people and injured several others in an explosion in a restaurant, police said Saturday.
The blast occurred in the Konduga area late Friday, police spokesperson Nahum Daso said.
The suicide bomber was able to slip through unnoticed because of a heavy downpour, said Ismail Ahmed, a resident of Konduga. The town is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state.
Media reported that those injured in the attacks have been taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. They also reported that the bomber was female.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which was the latest carried out by the Boko Haram group and its splinter, the Islamic State West Africa Province.
Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, claiming that Western education is evil and imposed their radical version of Islamic law. The conflict also has gone beyond the North-East geo-political zone, affecting Kano, Sokoto and Kaduna in the North-West zone of the country.
Some 35,000 civilians have been killed and more than 2 million displaced in the northeastern region, according to the U.N.
Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.
Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.
Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).
He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.
He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.
Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.
