Pics: APC Governors visit Nyanya bomb blast victims.

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 APC Governors including Rochas Okorocha of Imo state, Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa, Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara and Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, today April 16th paid a stop by at Monday morning Nyanya blast victims at the Asokoro General Hospital in Abuja. 

They sympathized with the patients and condemned the incessant attacks going on in the country. During a brief press statement that followed their visit, the governors asked the federal Government to step up in its responsibilities as regards security of every citizen.

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Putin rules out "iron curtain" in Russia-West relations

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Russia is not going to pull down an iron curtain on the West, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

"The iron curtain was an invention of the Soviet times. This was an internal event. We are not going to close our country and our people, our public from anyone. No," Putin said during a hotline on Thursday.

Soldiers, hunters comb bushes for abducted girls

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Soldiers, policemen, local vigilantes, hunters and volunteers combed the bushes on Wednesday in search of over 100 schoolgirls abducted on Monday by Boko Haram Islamists in Chibok, Borno State.

The rescue teams, aided by surveillance helicopters, were said to have moved deeper into the vast forest that extends into neighbouring Cameroon and other states in the North-East.

A senator representing Borno South in the National Assembly, Ali Ndume, made this known to the Cable News Network just as President Goodluck Jonathan summoned military chiefs and governors to emergency security meetings on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Osaze to recoup money from a British Fraudster.

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Nigeria forward Osaze Odemwingie may have his stolen money, totalling around £22,000, refunded after the fraudster Claire Duke pledged in the Stafford Crown Court to pay for back over £80,000 to her victims.

According to Daily Mail, the 38-year-old mother of two, whose business offered concierge services and organised holidays and trips abroad, pleaded guilty to seven counts of fraud on Wednesday, including one concerning the Stoke City striker.

President Goodluck Jonathan & Patience Dance To Beyonce's Drunk In Love [Video]

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What Is Wrong With This Photo? [Security check version]

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This is very intrusive and indeed laughable. The Nigerian security officer is really “going in.” Is this a new kind of security check innovation or some sort of madness in display?

You Soiled Your Hands –INEC Officer Exposes Minister Obaniko

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A stakeholder meeting called by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Ondo State, almost degenerated into fisticuffs on Tuesday as the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Akin Orebiyi, hinted that the commission had a report which showed that the Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, had “his hands soiled” during the election.

[Graphic Pic] "Suicide Bomber Of Abuja Bomb Blast Identified" - CTU

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A body has been recovered by the Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU) of the Nigerian security forces suspected to be the suicide bomber responsible for the bomb blast which occurred at the Nyanya El’Rufai Motor Park, Abuja.

The charred body was recovered with charms and amulets, he must have used for protection, still strapped to his body.

Security sources also recovered useful leads with him, including a mobile phone.

Security Issues: GEJ summons governors and members of National Security Council

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Find the State House press release below...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has summoned members of the National Security Council to a meeting tomorrow at the Presidential Villa against the background of recent events and developments in the country.

The meeting which will be presided over by President Jonathan is scheduled for 1100 hours.

Those expected at the meeting include Vice President Namadi Sambo, the Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen Aliyu Gusau, the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.), the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, the Service Chiefs, the Inspector-General of Police, the Director-General of the State Security Services and the Director-General of National Intelligence Agency.

Nyanya Bomb Blast: Perpetrators are pigs - Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor

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Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has described the men who carried out the attack at Nyanya Motor Park on Monday  as pigs, whose corpses ought to be fed to pigs once they die. 

"I completely condemned the bomb attack on a motor park in Nyanya. This is very inhuman, ungodly and barbaric. I don’t even have the adjectives to describe what these mad people have done. As far as I am concerned, the perpetrators are not human beings and in my own opinion, when they finally die their corpses should be given to pigs because they are on the same level with pigs. How do you do this kind of thing to human beings? So definitely, they cannot be humans. It is so unfortunate. To make it worse, there are people who are sponsoring them. As the judgment of God comes upon them, the judgment will also come on those who are sponsoring them. Anybody who has given N1 to these people, whether they are local people or foreign financiers, the same judgment will come upon them and their children.” They will not escape it. So those are my words.” - Oritsejafor said in a statement released on Monday

Graphic photo: Woman stabs co-tenant over bathroom key

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A 32 year old woman named Rahman Raliat, residing at Prince Abolaji Avenue, Imolete, Alaga, Baba Adisa Village, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos, has been dragged before the Tinubu Magistrate Court for allegedly stabbing her co-tenant, Sulaimon Jamiu with a damaged bottle, PM News reports. 

She was charged with a one count charge of felony stabbing occasioning grievous bodily harm. 

 

According to reports, both Raliat and Sulainmon live in a compound where the tenants share a single bathroom and toilet. Raliat had gone to Sulaimon's room to ask for the keys to the bathroom but was challenged by Sulaimon for coming to monitor his female guest. Continue...but *viewer discretion advised*

15 out of the 103 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram men escape

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In accordance with reports, 15 out of the 100+ girls kidnapped Monday night by Boko Haram men, at Girls Government School, Chibok, Borno state, have escaped.

 

The girls were said to have made their escape when one of the lorries used in transporting them broke down along the road. The girls jumped down from the lorry and ran to the bush around them.

 

Among the girls who fled told AFP that they escaped once the men were trying to repair the vehicle.

"They tried to fix it. It was at this moment that some of us jumped out of the vehicle and ran into the bush". Continue...

The 11 Effective Ways That Nigeria Can Employ To Fight And Defeat Boko Haram (Add yours)

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(I). Monitor the movement of all persons and goods across your heavily porous land and sea borders effectively and with all the modern technological gadgets.

(ii). Create a database of all the bomb making materials, such as, fertilizers, corrosive and explosive chemicals that are imported into Nigeria and then sold in Nigeria.

Kano rally: Ango Abdullahi, Junaid blast President

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Some northern groups on Tuesday described President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to Kano on Monday, as the height of insensitivity and callousness.

In separate telephone interviews with The PUNCH, spokesperson for the Northern Elders Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, and Dr. Junaid Mohammed, a member of the National Conference, said the President had only demonstrated his disdain for human lives.

Abdullahi said this was not the first time when the President would continue with festivities during a national tragedy.

British International Terrorist, ‘White Widow’ Linked With Nyanya Blast

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British International Terrorist, ‘White Widow’ Linked With Nyanya Blast

More than 48 hours after the terrifying bomb attacks on Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.

However, reports making rounds has it that a British international terrorist, Samantha Lewthwaite popularly known as ‘white widow’ may have been the person behind the attack. UK security sources believe ‘White Widow’ may have masterminded that attack for vengeance sake over the killing of her mentor, Shabaab terror chief Makaburi, A. K. A. Sheikh Abubakar Shariff Ahmed a fortnight ago.

19-yr-old Pakistani nabbed with ₦228m worth of heroin at MMIA

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A 19 year old Pakistani student named Iftikihar Muhammed Arslan, (pictured above) has been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA) for possession and attempted smuggling of 25.400kg of heroin considered worth N228m into Nigeria, Vanguard reports

Arslan was apprehended at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport during inward screening on passengers aboard a Qatar Airways flight. 25 parcels containing the hard drugs were discovered in his luggage.

 

The suspect thought to be in a drug cartel through his passport showed he left Lahore, Pakistan with the drugs to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, then Doha, in Qatar, from where he attached to Lagos. Continue...

293 vanished as South Korea ferry conveying people sinks

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293 people, mostly students who have been on a senior high school trip, are missing after having a ferry capsized & sank in dense fog off South Korea's coast yesterday, local media reports.

A South Korean government spokesman told reporters today that there have been 459 people aboard the ferry, including 325 students, 15 teachers, 89 other passengers and a staff of 30.

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One Dies & Several Injured In A Cult Clash Over Girlfriend In Lagos

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A 33-year-old man has been killed within a feud between two cult groups around Iba new site. 

Trouble, as gathered, started on Monday, April 14, at about 8pm, between two cult groups from Aratomi and Chemist, after having a cult member from Aratomi reportedly snatched a lady lover from the person in another group.

 

This unfortunately generated a struggle that lasted a long time causing the death of a person simply identified as Hamburger, while several others were injured.

Vanguard gathered at the scene of the incident that for the timely intervention of policemen from the Ojo Police division it could have degenerated.

Helen Ukpabio could possibly be banned from the UK over fears she's a risk to youngsters

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The UK is considering banning the founder of Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries and movie producer, Evang. Helen Ukpabio, from the UK over fears she is a risk to young people in the country.

From UK Daily Mail 

A Nigerian ‘witch-hunter’ who claims any child who cries is a ‘servant of Satan’ could be banned from the UK following calls to Home Secretary Theresa May that she is a risk to youngsters.

Campaigners are urging for Helen Ukpabio, known as ‘Lady Apostle’, to be deported and banned from returning to the UK on the grounds her preaches are harmful to the public.

Photo: President GEJ in Kano and Ibadan today.

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 President Jonathan was in Kano today for a PDP rally, then later visited the Olubadan of Ibadan to felicitate with him as he celebrated his 100th birthday. See more pics after the  break....