Topic: Unites States warns of attacks on Lagos Sheratons  (Read 2288 times)

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Unites States warns of attacks on Lagos Sheratons
« on: May 05, 2014, 07:11:57 AM »
The State Department said on its website that those behind the plot were "groups associated with terrorism" but gave no details.

Two recent bomb attacks on the edge of the capital, Abuja, have heightened security concerns ahead of the World Economic Forum for Africa, which will be held there from Wednesday to Friday.

Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which is fighting to carve an Islamic theocracy out of religiously mixed Nigeria, has never before attacked Lagos but its leader, Abubakar Shekau, has threatened to do so.

The State Department said it was not known which of the two Sheraton Hotels in Lagos was the target, or the timing or method of the attack.

Lagos is more frequently visited by foreign business people than Abuja, though oil executives often cut deals in the capital.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/05/05/us-warns-of-attacks-on-lagos-sheratons

 

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