Gov Calls For Meeting In Accordance To Maiduguri Explosion Which Leaves Several Injured

The National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA) has confirmed an explosion in Maiduguri near Monday market this morning.

The explosive was said to be detonated by a male and female suicide bombers.

The statement by the Agency says only the suicide bombers lost their lives while 17 persons were injured and evacuated to the Specialist Hospital Maiguduri .Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has Called on to officials of all markets, motor parks, shopping complexes, football fields and other places of public gatherings in Maiduguri, for an emergency security meeting with heads of security agencies and the civilian JTF.

The meeting, which is expected to take place on Monday at the Government House in Maiduguri, was in response to twin suicide attacks at the Maiduguri Monday market on Sunday morning which resulted in the death of three and 18 persons sustaining various degrees of injuries.

Governor Shettima visited the scene of ‎the suicide attacks around the market and was at the accident and emergency ward of the Maiduguri Specialist Hospital where he met each of the survivors out of which 3 were undergoing emergency surgery at the hospital’s theater.

The Boko Haram insurgents had repeatedly targeted the Maiduguri Monday markets using persons who conceal bombs and pretend to be buyers of goods services, targeting traders and customers before blowing themselves up.