A 12-year-old suicide bombing suspect in the attack that rocked University of Maiduguri early Monday morning was reportedly gunned down before she could detonate her explosives.
“Everyone on the campus is advice to be vigilant, even though it is only God who gives ultimate protection,” the school management said in a statement.
Several killings across the country have been committed in the name of religion and the Nobel laureate has called for rational reasoning above extremism in religious practices.
The suicide bombers who killed scores of people in Sunday attack in Kaleri surburb of Maiduguri reportedly knocked on several doors begging for hot food or a place to sleep.
“As I enter the gate, I see a boy sieving beans from the sand; he has his way past the security to do this. I walk to him, go on one knee and ask him, what he wants to do with the beans and he says, he wants to take it to his mother because they do not have food. I am broken.”
