Female Suicide Bomber in Lagos.

Fresh reports indicate that the Wednesday car
explosion in Apapa, Lagos was a car bombing not a
gasoline tanker explosion as earlier claimed by Lagos
State officials.
It was also learnt that explosion was carried out by
by a female suicide bomber who aimed at igniting
several gasoline depots in the area.
The explosion occurred on Creek Road near the
Burma Road junction.
A security source revealed to Sahara Reporters that
the explosion could have triggered a massive inferno
and inflicted a horrifying scale of casualties as well
as damage to properties in the Apapa area, which is
both a residential area as well as the hub of economic
activities, including shipping, manufacturing, and
storage of petrochemical products.
Our source said the suicide
bomber apparently sought to ignite
a series of gas distribution plants
and gasoline depots owned by
Folawiyo Energy some 150 meters
away from the site of the
explosion.
Some four persons were killed by
the explosion, among them the
female suicide bomber who drove
a Mercedes Benz car that caused
the explosion.Eyewitnesses said
the head of the female driver lay
on the ground next to the
Mercedes Benz used in the
bombing.
The Public Relations Officer of the
Lagos State Emergency
Management Agency (LASEMA),
Mr. Kehinde Adebayo, had told
reporters that the explosion was
from a gasoline tanker. On their
part, officials of the National
Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA) told SaharaReporters that
there was a major fire outbreak on
Commercial Road in Apapa on
Tuesday morning. One official said
the fire raged between 4 a.m. and
8 a.m. before it was contained by
firefighters, adding that one federal
firefighter was injured as he fought
the fire.
The Federal emergency officials
said they were denied entry to the
scene of the car bomb and were
excluded by Lagos officials from
participating in the rescue and
recovery process, in an apparent
move to hush up the news of the
bombing.
Even though LASEMA claimed that
the explosion was a gas cylinder
explosion at a facility owned by
Folawiyo Energy Limited (FEL), the
management of the company
issued a statement dissociating
itself from the claim. A statement
signed by the company’s media
consultant, Muyiwa Adekeye, said
the explosion did not happen on its
premises.
An account by Vanguard
newspaper that first pointed to
evidence of a car bombing
suggested that Boko Haram
militants might have targeted the
farm tank with highly inflammable
material packed in a Mercedes
Benz car in order to avoid
detection and cause grave
damage.
Although the car exploded beside
a loaded gasoline tanker, the
tanker did not catch fire.
The apparent car bomb will be the
first in Lagos since the Boko
Haram insurgency entered its
most violent stage in 2009.