Soldier Fighting Boko Haram In Borno State Allegedly Disarms A 'Bomb' With Hands
Soldier Fighting Boko Haram In Borno State Disarms A 'Bomb' With His Bare Hands Mixed reactions as soldier disarms an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) with his bare hands. During a patrol in Kafan, Ruwa town in Borno state, gallant officers of ‘Operation Tura Takai Bango’ discovered the 'bomb' buried in the ground. In a video making rounds online, it showed the moment an army who is believed to be an IED expert scraping up sand with his bare hands to bring out the explosive device reportedly buried by Boko
Punctuation marks in Hausa and Igbo
Its a well known fact that punctuation marks are very important when writing. Hence, almost every known language have names for them. This shows their importance to make the writing easier to comprehend, more beautiful and the message to be sent swiftly. In this article, I want to write the local names of some punctuation marks I know in the languages of Hausa and Igbo. Starting with Hausa, they are as below; Full stop (.) - Aya Comma (,) - Wakafi Colon (:) - Ruwa biyu Semi colon (;) - Wakafi mai ruwa Hyphe