innocent souls were lost in act of bombing.

Monday morning rush hour, when thousands of commuters were queuing to board buses at Nyanya, nine miles south of Abuja city centre.

Dozens were killed in the initial blast, and then more died as fuel tanks in waiting vehicles ignited, triggering several secondary explosions and sending a plume of thick black smoke hundreds of feet into the air. The issue of Boko Haram is quite an ugly history within this period of our own development,” he told reporters at the bus station. “Government is doing everything to make sure that we move our country forward. But the issue of Boko Haram is temporary. Surely, we will get over it.” It was only the second major attack on Abuja blamed on Boko Haram, a fundamentalist  growing in strength that is fighting for strict Islamic law to be introduced across Nigeria’s north.
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