Boko Haram leader, wife killed in 5-hour gunfight •Slain leader, 2002 BUK graduate •Security agents arrest son
  Security agents on Tuesday killed Uzairu  Abba Abdullahi, a textile merchant suspected to be a leader of the  violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, during a five-hour gun duel.   His pregnant wife, who was at his  residence in Hotoro, Nassarawa Local Government Area when the team  stormed the building, was also shot dead. After the battle, the security  men reportedly arrested one of the late businessman’s sons.   A family source described Abdullahi as a  2002 Mass Communication graduate of Bayero University, Kano, but  security sources described him as one of the planners and executors of  last Friday’s multiple bomb blasts and attacks on Kano.   Our correspondent gathered that the team  that killed him comprised soldiers, policemen and security personnel  drawn from other forces. The team reportedly stormed the suburb at about  midnight following a tip-off that members of the sect were there in  large numbers.   we learnt that on  reaching the house, Abdulllahi and his men opened fire ...
