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Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

Xinhua, February 18, 2017 Adjust font size:

The following are news highlights of leading Nigerian media outlets on Saturday.

-- In what would have been one of the most audacious attacks by Boko Haram insurgents meant to cause maximum damage, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said eight suspected suicide bombers in a Volkswagen Golf laden with explosives, attacked the eastern flank of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital late Thursday into early Friday.

NEMA's spokesman Sani Datti, who disclosed this in a statement in Maiduguri, Friday, said the blasts killed two civilians and injured seven Civilian Joint Task Force members. (The Guardian)

-- Three lifeless bodies were recovered while 23 others sustained injuries after a luxury bus plunged into a lagoon in the Mile 12 area of Nigeria's southwestern state of Lagos early Friday.

A spokesperson for the Lagos State Emergency Management Authority (LASEMA) Adebayo Kehinde, who confirmed this, said the ill-fated bus was returning to Lagos from the southeastern state of Abia when the incident occurred. (Vanguard) Endit