Boko Haram Attacks Power Station in Maidugiri Leaves People in Total Darkness

Date: 21-07-2014 10:34 am (9 years ago) | Author: Bayo Nelson
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For three weeks running, Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, and its neighbourhoods have been plunged into total darkness following the reported damaging of major electricity installments around Damboa town by Boko Haram terrorists, security sources said.

For about 21 days now, the entire city of Maiduguri has not enjoyed electricity coming from the national grid.


A military person who spoke to Leadership in Maiduguri confirmed that the Boko Haram insurgents had detonated bombs that affected the high-tension installations around Damboa and has since left the about two million residents of Maiduguri in total blackout.

Many residents now have to depend on power plants while major business outfits and even government offices depend solely on generators throughout the days.

The power outage has since caused residents some serious economic hardship as most businesses that depend on electricity now hike the prices of their products.

Many households that used to depend on the few hours of electricity supply from the national grid to produce their iced blocks needed for the Ramadan fasting period now have to buy from hawkers at expensive prices.

We now buy iced sachet water for N25 but before it used to be sold for N10 each or, in some cases, two sachets of iced block for N15,” said Bashir Mustapha, a resident of Maiduguri.

Boko Haram has, in the past three years, vandalized public infrastructure like telecommunication masts that had hitherto cut off various parts of Borno State from the rest of the world. The group had also used bombs and fire to destroy schools, hospitals, police offices, barracks and even cratering of roads. Their most recent attack on public infrastructure was the bombing of an ultra-modern drilling rig procured by Borno State at the cost of over N300 million at the site where it was mobilized to drill water for rural dwellers of the northern part of Borno State.


Posted: at 21-07-2014 10:34 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- dareper at 21-07-2014 11:04 AM (9 years ago)
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Oh! Nigeria is doomed
Posted: at 21-07-2014 11:04 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
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- elmatado at 21-07-2014 11:25 AM (9 years ago)
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Gegen gegen elmatado is back ur God Fada
Posted: at 21-07-2014 11:25 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- seveneleven at 21-07-2014 11:31 AM (9 years ago)
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everyday bad news for naija.. so annoying
Posted: at 21-07-2014 11:31 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- dareper at 21-07-2014 12:09 PM (9 years ago)
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Quote from: elmatado on 21-07-2014 11:25 AM
Gegen gegen elmatado is back ur God Fada
see as u be like sickle cell
Posted: at 21-07-2014 12:09 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
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- chicent2k3 at 21-07-2014 01:09 PM (9 years ago)
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Quote from: dareper on 21-07-2014 12:09 PM
see as u be like sickle cell
Dareper, why change your former picture? I prefer to see those big kpomo lips than this illuminati shit.
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- elmatado at 21-07-2014 01:31 PM (9 years ago)
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Quote from: chicent2k3 on 21-07-2014 01:09 PM
Dareper, why change your former picture? I prefer to see those big kpomo lips than this illuminati sh*t.
lol  oboy dat dareper lips na die, him lips na heavy weight
Posted: at 21-07-2014 01:31 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Freshlycrazy at 21-07-2014 02:06 PM (9 years ago)
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boko haram lyk lantern & candle...
Posted: at 21-07-2014 02:06 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- winace at 21-07-2014 02:11 PM (9 years ago)
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Dats wat u pple want. Do somethg abt those foolish boko.
Posted: at 21-07-2014 02:11 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- bucknx at 21-07-2014 03:29 PM (9 years ago)
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dis boko men have really given nigerians enough prayer points,i think enough is enough
Posted: at 21-07-2014 03:29 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie
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- cocoeni at 21-07-2014 04:00 PM (9 years ago)
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may God help his people
Posted: at 21-07-2014 04:00 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
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- seveneleven at 21-07-2014 04:02 PM (9 years ago)
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Quote from: elmatado on 21-07-2014 01:31 PM
lol  oboy dat dareper lips na die, him lips na heavy weight

no matter how him lips ugly.. him still better pass agbero like you
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- raybenzino at 21-07-2014 05:25 PM (9 years ago)
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Ok
Posted: at 21-07-2014 05:25 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Triumphant5 at 21-07-2014 05:44 PM (9 years ago)
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am frm naija noting spoil.
Posted: at 21-07-2014 05:44 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie
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- felaman at 21-07-2014 06:31 PM (9 years ago)
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foolish dickman2
Posted: at 21-07-2014 06:31 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- zeigbo at 21-07-2014 07:01 PM (9 years ago)
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i shake my head pass

Posted: at 21-07-2014 07:01 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- benbellabiz at 21-07-2014 07:34 PM (9 years ago)
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them like am so na. they are not complaining.
Posted: at 21-07-2014 07:34 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- poss4love at 21-07-2014 08:06 PM (9 years ago)
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Muslims are nothing but darkness...
Posted: at 21-07-2014 08:06 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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- summerboyonline at 21-07-2014 08:40 PM (9 years ago)
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How sad. And yet we keep hoping and praying for them to be brought to justice. God, we're in your hands.
Posted: at 21-07-2014 08:40 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie
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- lexebony at 21-07-2014 09:29 PM (9 years ago)
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Na wa for you ooooo, see as u dey talk like person wey no get sense.......Who started the first world war? Not Muslims!!!!! Who started the second world war ? Not Muslims!!!!! Who killed about 20 millions of Aborigines in Australia ? Not Muslims!!!!! Who sent the nuclear bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ?Not Muslims!!!!! Who killed more than 100 millions of Indians in North America ? Not Muslims!!!!! Who killed more than 50 million of Indians in south America? Not Muslims!!!!! Who took about 180 millions of African people as slaves and 88% of them died and were thrown in Atlantic ocean ? Not Muslims!
Posted: at 21-07-2014 09:29 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie
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