PICS OF TODAY's BOMBING AT THISDAY NEWSPAPER

A bomb blast near Thisday newspaper's
Kaduna office has killed at least 10 people.
The attack, a second one on the newspaper
today, occured along Kontagora road by
Ahmadu Bello way in Kaduna. The suspected
bomber was arrested.

Two die as blasts hit newspaper
offices in Abuja and Kaduna
At least people have been confirmed
dead in a bomb blast at the Thisday
newspaper office in Abuja, according
to Segun Adeniyi, Chairman of the
paper’s Editorial board, while a second
explosion that affected the same
company, the Sun and the Moment
newspaper offices went off in the city
of Kaduna.
The explosion in Abuja occurred around
11:30am on Thursday at the offices of
ThisDay.
Mr Adeniyi who confirmed that the
incidence in Abuja was a suicide
bombing said that two men disguised
as visitors had drove into the Thisday
premises in and and detonated the
bomb before the security officers could
suspect or stop them.
He said five other person who sustained
injuries from the incidence are been
treating in a hospital in Abuja.
An official of Nigeria’s National
Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)
said the explosion in Thisday office
Abuja was caused by a bomb planted
inside the newspaper’s office.
“It’s true there was an explosion at Jabi
(district),” NEMA official, Yushau Shuaib
said
“NEMA officials are on the ground,” said
he. “They are trying to move those
injured to the hospitals, but we don’t
have any information on casualties yet.”
The agency in an initial statement had
said that it did not believe it was a
suicide bombing.
Police and paramilitary were on the
scene and had surrounded the offices
where the blast had taken place. An
Associated Press new agency reporter
who heard the explosion said it was
very large.
Witnesses said another blast in the city
of Kaduna hit the Sun newspaper office
there.
Response from Government
The Deputy President of Senate, Ike
Ekweremadu has condemned in strong
terms the bomb attacks on Thisday and
Sun Offices in Abuja and Kaduna.
Mr Ekweremadu who described the
attack as a grievous affront on the
Nigerian people urged Nigerians to
unite in their resistance against all acts
of terror.
He said: “The Nigerian media industry
has distinguished itself in not only
fighting for and entrenching the current
democratic dispensation, even at very
high sacrifices, but has as well stood out
as a bastion of our unity and the moral
voice of our society.
“An attack on the media is therefore an
attack on the very fabric of the
conscience of our society and the
fulcrum of our unity, democracy, and
good governance which every Nigerian
must stand up against”
The Deputy President of Senate who
added that the attack was “dastardly,
anti-cultural, and anti-Nigeria”, urged
the media not to be cowed, but speak
up against all acts of terrorism as
Nigerians were in solidarity with them.