- Nyanya bombing
According to Marcus Tullius Cicero, history is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.
History is an effective instrument for enhancing education and honing knowledge. Only those who really lived through it can adequately recount a society’s history. Nobody is more adept at recreating our own history than Nigerians. The past must be consciously recalled for the sake of education.
Nonetheless, two key events that happened on April 14 in Nigerian history had a big impact. These occasions are not just notable; they also have a big impact on Nigeria’s development, including both its happy and sad moments.
Nyanya bombing
On this day, April 14 in 2014, two bombs exploded at a crowded bus station in Nyanya, Nasarawa State, killing at least 88 people and injuring at least 200. The bus station is 8 km southwest of central Federal Capital Territory.
Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the bombing six days after it occurred. It occurred just hours before the Chibok kidnapping.
Explosives hidden inside vehicles detonated during morning rush hour in a bus station in Nyanya on the outskirts of Abuja. After the initial blast, further explosions occurred as fuel tanks in nearby vehicles ignited.
Abbas Idris, head of the Abuja Emergency Relief Agency, confirmed that 71 people had been killed and 124 injured. The bus station serves a poor, ethnically and religiously mixed community. Manzo Ezekiel, spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency, confirmed that numerous injured victims were undergoing treatment in the hospital.
By April 15, the death toll had increased to 75, as investigators continued to sift through the wreckage at the blast site. By April 18, the death toll had increased to 88, with more than 200 reported injured
