Friday, 28 November 2014 – Boko Haram detonated three bombs and opened fire on worshippers at Kano’s Grand Central Mosque. The assault left at least 130 dead and more than 135 injured, making it one of the deadliest attacks in the group’s campaign of violence.
Inside the mosque, bullet‑scarred pillars and blood‑stained walls bear the grim imprint of the assault; a suicide bomber drove a car into the crowded sanctuary, scattering debris and body parts across the dome.
Earlier, on Friday April 13, 2007, assassins entered the Dorayi Juma’at Mosque, Kano during the morning prayer of Subhi and killed the Imam, Sheikh Ja’afar Mahmud Adam, a Kano-based Islamic scholar and founder of Usman Bin Affan Centre, and two other worshippers. The attack on Sheikh Adam which also injured many other worshippers at the Mosque horrified the whole Muslim community of Kano State and beyond.
Since that Day of the Kano Bombings
– Boko Haram and affiliated armed groups have continued to strike mosques, churches, schools and government facilities across northern Nigeria.
– Women and girls remain vulnerable to abduction, sexual slavery and rape.
The impact of that November day still echoes, and the demand for accountability endures. The Nigerian authorities must intensify efforts to protect all citizens and ensure that the perpetrators of this and similar atrocities, and their sponsors, are identified and brought to justice.
