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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica Apr 2

    Boko Haram attack: More than a dozen dead in Maidugurihttps://bbc.in/2H3bMEU 

    2:08 AM - 2 Apr 2018
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    • Linus Unah Jessica Thomas 💜 ROY Kelvinbagwell® 💎Swagger👑Daddy💎 🦅🇳🇬 Tomtom Beleges Snr Adedimejidami Kwabena Boateng Asiedu ™️ Wilson Chege
    19 replies 176 retweets 61 likes
      1. SpicyDicedWaterMelon‏ @bisola285 Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        This is full scale war! And baba is busy re-commissioning already commissioned projects,strolling with super models on the beach,receiving fake awards,attending weddings...

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      2. James Udoh‏ @drjamieudoh Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        This is just a reminder :Boko Haram has been decimated. What you see or hear are just pockets of futile resistance. Yet 15 people are gone.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Amaka Ufondu-Ojure‏ @AmakaOjure Apr 2
        Replying to @drjamieudoh @BBCAfrica

        Another name for it is 'soft target' ... While people are dying, APC is playing dirty politics.

        0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
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      1. integrity‏ @twitmexy Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        If you want to end boko haram, end buhari's presidency. He provides them the oxygen to breathe. He wants to give them amnesty.

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      1. Tycoon‏ @Asmailafiya Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        pic.twitter.com/GJtw15BpFK

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      1. Tycoon‏ @Asmailafiya Apr 2
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        pic.twitter.com/7UHhilqYlA

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      1. Tycoon‏ @Asmailafiya Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Over 50 were killed in Zamfara yesterday by gunmen. Buhari is busy attending wedding and parties in Lagospic.twitter.com/DueHl4ABFz

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      1. Tycoon‏ @Asmailafiya Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Buhari was in Lagos dancing for someone's birthday when funeral of Nigerian soldiers dead on duty taking place in Kaduna state at the same time.pic.twitter.com/PGkgo6Kaaw

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      1. itsmiephilip‏ @PhilipLiani Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Are this killings or sacrifices! #HumanBloodSacrifice, #scarerredland

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      1. Notorious_City_Fan‏ @uselessPogba Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        After hailing boko haram weeks ago

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      1. Milenam‏ @Milenamnam Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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      1. Ogbeni smozu‏ @smozu Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @Oddy4real

        You see this headlines again in nigeria.....

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      1. ◄▲ ♥▲Godship☆★►‏ @Godship_1 Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        chai

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      1. Chronic‏ @charly2time Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        This govt has failed it wasnt like this during GEJ tenure in office

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      1. GERALD‏ @GWRECKK Apr 2
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @MBuhari is a monumental scam.

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