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hideouts of terrror suspects in Kano on Sunday. Picture 3: One of the 
razed buildings used as a hideout by the suspects.</span>

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Operatives of the  
Joint Task Force on Sunday averted another  major attack  by  
terrorists  in Kano by raiding  their  hideouts  at  Unguwa Uku area of 
the ancient city.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The operatives, acting 
on a tip off,  were said to have raced to the area around 4am  and 
intercepted a Volkswagen Golf, primed with explosives, which  some 
terrorists had wanted to use and wreck havoc during the Easter 
celebration in the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Residents of the area  
said  the soldiers thereafter  invaded a compound housing the suspected 
terrorists but were greeted with  explosions.They added that the 
operatives who were not deterred exchanged gunfire with the terrorists 
for about four hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The spokesperson of JTF 
in Kano, Ikedi Iweha, was quoted as saying that the task force killed 14
 Boko Haram suspects in the raid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  One of the residents 
said   it was unclear if most of the terrorists were killed by the 
Improvised Explosive Devices  detonated by them or by the operatives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He added that bodies  
were seen being  carried out of  one of the   buildings in the compound 
raided by the operatives while 14 AK 47 rifles, 10 peak milk-size  IEDs,
 four drums of 50- litre  primed explosives  and   51 other items  in 
small drums were recovered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The houses  were  thereafter  demolished while the corpses were  taken  to a morgue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Security operatives  said that one of the terrorists’ top commanders  whose  name was not given was later  arrested .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Brigade Commander 3 motorised Brigade, Bukavu Barracks, Kano, Brig.-Gen.Iliyasu  Abba,  confirmed the incident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> “My men on search 
operations in the wee hours of this(Sunday) morning at Layin Yan’awaki, 
Ungwa –Uku general area   suddenly came   under fire from  terrorists 
that triggered a gunfire,” he  said while conducting journalists round 
the scene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> “It was an opportunity 
to demonstrate our superior fire power, and the gallant  officers and 
men gave a good account of themselves but unfortuanately we lost one of 
our soldiers and another one  was injured.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As of 4pm on Sunday,  the area was still  cordoned off  by security operatives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  Many panic-stricken 
Christians  could  not summon courage to attend Easter  service in their
 churches  despite the  high  presence of security operatives in the 
metropolis </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Churches like  Our Lady of Fatima,   St Louis,    St Thomases’,  St Stephen’s, St </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Georges and Holy Trinity had  low turn out of worshippers while those in   Hotoro, Mariri and Badawa areas did not open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before the raid,   JTF 
operatives and  policemen   had been  deployed  in  strategic locations 
in the city.  Armoured Personnel Carriers  were also seen  patrolling  
the flash points.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Jos, Plateau State, 
the much-advertised   rally   to mark the end of the  Easter festivities
 did not hold  as  church leaders  advised their followers to go back to
 their homes and celebrate quietly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of them had  
gathered in front of the headquarters of the Church Of Christ In Nigeria
 to begin the procession that would have terminated at the Rwang Pam 
Stadium when  they were given the advice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rally, which was 
organised by the state branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria, 
was abandoned after the police  warned against it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There had been clashes in the suburbs of the  city , which had necessitated a high security alert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However,  in his Sunday 
Easter message at the Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, Archbishop of 
Jos, Most Rev. Ignatius  Kaigama, urged Christians not to see the end of
 the Lenten period as a time to go back to their old ways, but to 
continue to allow the spirit of   Christ to be in them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He admonished them to imbibe the spirit of forgiveness, which the period signifies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“All the troubles we 
have in Nigeria is because we have not allowed the spirit of Christ to 
take charge of our lives. Therefore, as we celebrate Easter, we should 
look up at that Cross of Calvary, where Christ hung more than 2,000 
years ago and reflect on the essence of that sacrifice,” the cleric 
said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, the   
Commissioner of Police in the state,    Mr. Chris Olakpe,  has called on
 warring parties to shun hatred and to come  out  for genuine dialogue 
in order to  curb  the growing insecurity in the state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Olakpe   stated this on Sunday  in Jos when   Isoko people living  in Jos hosted him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Earlier,the President of
 Isoko Development Union    in  Plateau State, Mr. Ezekiel Udubrae,  had
 said the  Isoko  would  avail the commissioner  with any information 
that would  enable him succeed   in the state.</span></div>
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Pictures 1 & 2: AK 47 rifles and bomb making materials recovered from the hideouts of terrror suspects in Kano on Sunday. Picture 3:...