Suicide Bombers Hit Maiduguri …As Mubi Poly Reopens, Begins Lecture,Today

Three people have been confirmed dead and 16 others injured after two suicide bombers, yesterday, attacked a hospital in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State.
The suicide bombers, both women, tried to get into a hospital but were stopped by security guards at the gate, and blew themselves up, our sources quoted witnesses as saying.
“We evacuated the charred bodies of the two security guards, another civilian and the two bombers,” said Auwal Mohammed, a member of the community in Molai, where the hospital is situated.
A source at the mortuary of Borno State Hospital in Maiduguri told newsmen that it had received three corpses after the blast.
Another hospital source said 16 people injured in the attack had been brought in.
It would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered the military hierarchy to move the military command centre to the troubled north-eastern town in order to curb the Boko Haram menace after his inauguration last month.
However, more than 100 people have reportedly been killed in the past few weeks in a spate of bombings, mostly in Maiduguri.
Meanwhile, the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa, closed in October, 2014, in the wake of Boko Haram invasion of the town, has re-opened for academic work, the Director of Information and Protocol, Mr Philip Ndalamu, has said.
Ndalamu made the fact known to newsmen in Yola yesterday, saying lectures would commenced Monday.
“We re-opened three weeks ago and the staff have equally resumed work. Arrangements have been put in place for students who have been returning to commence lectures on Monday,” Ndalamu said.
Ndalamu said major repair works of structures damaged by the insurgents had been concluded.
The College of Health Technology, Mubi, similarly closed during the insurgency re-opened three months ago but Adamawa State University also located in the town has yet to resume.
Although workers of the university have resumed, repair work on damaged infrastructure is still on.
The insurgents had damaged basic infrastructure in the university.