Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will today, on November 17, decide whether or not to extend the emergency rule in the three north-eastern states: Adamawa, Yobe and Borno, worst hit by Boko Haram violence.
There have been thoughts that President Goodluck Jonathan may enforce “total emergency rule” on the states by employing military administrators to take over from the state governors.
A top government official, said that the decision on whether to renew the emergency rule or not would be taken at a meeting of the National Defence Council holding on Monday (today).
Earlier on Sunday, the Nigerian army said it retook and protected the northeastern town of Chibok, where Boko Haram rebels kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in April.
At least 10 people were killed and some 60 others wounded Sunday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a busy mobile phone market in Azare area of Bauchi State.