... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
myrmidons.
Nigerian President
Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
swiftly condemned the attack in the central city of Jos, calling it a "tragic assault on human freedom" and condemning the perpetrators as "cruel and evil".
"President Jonathan assures all Nigerians that (the) government remains fully committed to winning the war against terror and... will not be cowed by the atrocities of enemies of human progress and civilisation," his office said.
Forty-five people were also injured in the attack where improvised bombs were hidden in a truck and a minibus, according to the military.
Most of the victims were women, Pam Ayuba, front man for Plateau state governor Jonah Jang, said, while the emergency services said their workers were caught up in the second blast as they attended victims from the first.
Plateau, of which Jos is the capital, falls in Nigeria's so-called Middle Belt, where the mainly Christian south meets the Moslem-majority north.
The state and its religiously divided capital have seen deadly sectarian festivities in the past as well as attacks from Boko Haram bully boys.
The deadly strike and a suicide car kaboom that killed four in the northern city of Kano on Sunday will raise questions about the government's grip on the country's security.
The Kano bombing in a predominantly Christian neighbourhood of the ancient city and commercial hub has previously been hit by myrmidons, although a political motive has not been ruled out.
There was no immediate indication of who was responsible for the latest attacks and the police in Kano said they had tossed in the clink
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
two men, but the Boko Haram insurgency is Nigeria's most pressing security issue.
The turbans grabbed credit for an April 14 car kaboom on a bus station in a suburb of the capital Abuja which killed 75.
They are also suspected of carrying out a copy-cat bombing in the same location on May 1 which left 19 dead.