Highlights of Boko Haram Bombings in Nigeria between 2009 and 2014

Jonathan, Boko haram

July 26, 2009 – Police allegedly killed Boko Haram leader, Mohammed Yusuf, in police cell after soldiers, who arrested him, handed him over to the police alive
April 22, 2011 – Boko Haram attacked prison in Yola, Adamawa, freed 14 prisoners
May 29, 2011 – Boko Haram attacked several communities in northern Nigeria
June 16, 2011 – Boko Haram claimed responsibility for attack on Abuja police headquarters
June 26, 2011 – Boko Haram bombed beer garden in Maiduguri, 25 killed, 12 injured
July 11, 2011 – University of Maiduguri closed down over Boko Haram threats
August 26, 2011 – The Islamic sect bombed the UN Building, Abuja, killing workers and visitors
August 12, 2011 – Boko Haram shot dead Liman Bana, prominent Islamic cleric
December 25, 2011 – Sect bombed the Catholic Church, Madalla, killing several worshippers
Feb 8, 2012 – Boko Haram claims responsibility for Kaduna army headquarters bombing
March 8, 2012 – Efforts to free Italian, British captives abducted by the sect failed as they were killed before they could be rescued in Sokoto
April 26, 2012 – Bombers hit ThisDay office in Abuja
June 17, 2012 – Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked 3 Kaduna churches, 50 killed
Sept 19, 2012 – Nigerian army arrested insurgents and claimed it killed Abu Qaqa
March 5, 2013 – Sultan called for Amnesty for Boko Haram members
Mar 18, 2013 – Suicide bombers attacked Kano Bus stop, killed 22, 65 injured
Apr 17, 2013 – Jonathan set up Amnesty Implementation Committee to engage BH
July 6, 2013 – Boko Haram attacked Government Secondary School, Mamugu, killing 29 students
Sept 29, 2013 – BH attacked College of Agriculture in Gujba, killed 40 male students
April 24, 2013 – Jonathan set up Boko Haram amnesty committee
May 14, 2013 – Jonathan declared state of emergency in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa states over BH attacks
August 2013 – Abubakar Shekau said to have been shot and deposed by members Chief of Defence Staff said the military would wipe out Boko Haram by April, 2014 – Jan, 2014 April 14, 2014 – BH kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls at Govt. Sec. School, Chibok, Borno
April 14, 2014 – BH suicide bombers attacked Nyanya bus station in Abuja, 90 killed
May 1, 2014 – Car bomb attack in Nyanya area of Abuja, 19 killed, scores injured
May 18, 2014 – BH suicide bomb attack in Kano, five killed
May 20, 2014 – Twin bomb explosions in Jos, 118 killed
September 17, 2014 – Nigeria military claimed it killed Abubakar Shekau ‘again’
September 2014 – Australian Stephen Davis named some alleged ‘sponsors’ of Boko Haram
Sept 2014 – Boko Haram captured some towns –Damboa, Gwoza, Bama and most Nigeria’s border towns with Cameroon in Borno State and Mubi, Madagali and Michika in Adamawa State
Sept 2014 – Nigeria’s military fought back Boko Haram’s attack to retake Konduga, killing about 115 of the militants, several insurgents surrendered their weapons
September 2014 – The sect claimed it shot down a Nigeria military jet and captured one of the pilots alive. It released the video of how it beheaded one of the pilots
October 17, 2014 – VOA reports a meeting of a delegation of the Federal Government and Boko Haram members in the Chad November 10 2014- 47 killed by suicide bomber at Government Science College, Potiskum, Yobe State
After every attack, President Jonathan condemns the insurgents and promises to deal with them ruthlessly. He says they will never go unpunished. It is now easy to predict the the President’s reaction after any Boko Haram attack. He has refused to change. And the stronger his condemnation remarks, the more the insurgents kill Nigerians and the stronger they appear as reflected in the capturing of Nigerian towns, hoisting their flags and the purported renaming of these cities. The incidents quoted above point to one thing. The President should consider to talk less on Boko Haram and work more to end their terror on our polity.
Source: THEPUNCH