By Bala Ajiya

Despite President  Muhammadu  Buhari’s vow that his “administration will fight and subdue Boko Haram  militants”, attacks on villages and towns as well as suicide bombings among other dastardly acts continue unabated in Yobe State.

File: People gather around the Redeemed Christian Church of God, after a bomb blast in Potiskum, Nigeria, Sunday, July 5, 2015. A woman suicide bomber blew up in the midst of a crowded evangelical Christian church service in northeast Nigeria on Sunday and killed at least five people, witnesses said. Photo: Adamu Adamu Damaturu, AP

Shortly after the handing over of power to Buhari by the Jonathan administration, the Boko Haram terrorist group attacked Ngalda and Fika  burning part of the local government secretariat, the magistrate court in the area as well as a church while  food items and beverages were looted  from shops in Ngalda.

This was followed  by another attack on the College of Administrative and Business  Studies (CABS), Potiskum where a  suicide bomber    attacked students.

The attacker came as students and lecturers  arrived  for lectures and detonated his explosives, injuring seven  students who were  hospitalised at the Federal Medical Center, Azare, Bauchi State. One of the students  died while receiving treatment. On the heels of that was the attack by two female suicide bombers at a motor park in Damaturu, the state capital, which killed  ten people.

Three days after, security forces were reported to have launched an attack on  insurgents in their hide-out around Sasawa and Mafa villages in Tarmuwa local government area of the state.

The insurgents retaliated by attacking Babangida, the headquarters of the local government. In the attack, the Divisional Police Station, the emir’s palace, among many other structures were touched. An attack on Nanawaji village in Gujba local government area of the state came next. 20 persons were killed.

The most recent attack in Yobe was the one unleashed by a suicide bomber on the Redeemed Christain Church in Jigawa area of Potiskum which claimed six lives. In that attack, the bomber was reported to have attended the church service with worshippers before detonating his improvised explosive devices .