Nyanya, Abuja bomb blast: Hospitals reject victims

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The series of explosions that rocked the Federal Capital Territory in the last two weeks appear to have taken toll on its health facilities as some of the hospitals in the territory  rejected victims of  Thursday’s  bomb blast at Nyanya, a satellite community within the FCT, which left 30 people dead and many others injured. 

The blast, which was believed to be a suicide attack, occurred around 8:45pm when a bomb-laden car exploded at the Karshi Taxi Park, a few metres from where the April 14, 2014 explosion took place.

The tragic May Day blast was the second in the nation’s capital in 17 days. The first one, which occurred on April 14, killed 75 people while hundreds were injured and admitted in various hospitals in Abuja. The explosion rocked the Nyanya Motor Park.

Outcome of Pres. Jonathan's security council meeting.

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The 7 hour extraordinary meeting President Jonathan ordered with the Service Chiefs has ended in the state house. Briefing newsmen after the meeting, the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku said the meeting was dedicated to the missing Chibok girls and yesterday's bomb blast.


According to Maku, President Jonathan, while addressing the issue of the missing schoolgirls, said "wherever the girls are in the world, we will get them back, apprehend and punish the culprits."  

"On the unfortunate kidnap of the Chibok girls, the security chiefs briefed the meeting on efforts so far made to locate and rescue the girls, and bring the perpetrators to justice. Extensive and intensive aerial surveillance by the Air Force has been carried out in all the routes leading into and out of Chibok up to the Chad and Cameroun borders. Other parts of Borno and Adamawa states are also under the searchlight. Every information relayed to security agencies has so far been investigated, including the search of all places suspected as a possible hide-away of the kidnapped girls", Maku said. .......

PhotoNews: See more photos from Mayday's Nyanya blast

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MayDay Nyanya, Abuja Blast: Nine dead, 66 critically injured– Live Updates #‎NyanyaExplosion‬

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UPDATE: MayDay ‪#‎NyanyaExplosion‬ Sixty-six injured persons taken to various hospitals out of which six were treated and discharged, nineteen persons killed. Investigators are processing the scene (gathering evidence)  - Nigeria Police Force

Aftermath of Workers Day bombing: Pres. GEJ summons Security Chiefs

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President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned Service Chiefs to an exceptional security meeting after yesterdays bombing in Nyanya Abuja killing 19 people and leaving several injured. The meeting based on the President's spokesperson, Reuben Abati, is ongoing at the moment. Didn't they've a protection meeting after the final Nyanya bombing? 

Nigeria police, SSS say at least 276 still missing

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Based on Premium Times, the Police Command in Borno state and the State Security Service (SSS) yesterday May 1st had a shared press conference at the headquarters of the Borno State Police Command where they stated that the specific number of missing girls is 276 and not 234 as earlier reported and might even be more.

 Speaking at the press conference yesterday, the Borno state Police Commissioner, Tanko Lawan said the figure they have may be the authentic number as they have carefully gone across the Chibok village and its environ to collate the names of girls that have gone missing since April 14th when the school was attacked by the Boko Haram men. 

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Photos: Nigeria military Storm MMIA, Lagos

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 Based on multiple eye-witness reports, there's a unique heavy presence of military personnel at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. Ovation magazine publisher, Dele Momodu shared photos online and said the military men are making life difficult for passengers who're either departing or arriving the country. See more photos after the break...

Abomination: Father Rapes & Impregnates His 16-Year-Old Daughter In Ibadan

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An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, on Wednesday remanded a 45-year-old man, Ahmed Akintola, in Agodi prison for allegedly molesting and impregnating his daughter.

The Chief Magistrate, Kehinde Durosaro-Tijani, gave the order pending the duplication of the case file by the Directorate of Public Prosecution.

She, therefore, adjourned the case till May 11.

Prosecutor Oluyemi Eyiaromi told the court that the accused unlawfully had carnal knowledge of his 16-year-old daughter.

Why Nigeria SEO Organizations Cost is more effective in the Global Outsourcing Industry?

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Why Nigeria SEO Organizations

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BRICS creating parallel Monetary Fund disillusioned with IMF and World Bank - expert

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Frustrated by the IMF and World Bank controversial policy, the BRICS nations go on creating the alternative financial supranational institutions for emerging economies. In recent years the IMF has discredited itself, becoming a completely politicized and "odd" structure, which supports interventionist "super state" ambitions of the EU and the US, stresses Patrick L Young, an expert in global financial markets, referring to the ongoing events in Ukraine.

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are fed up with the US failure to ratify a four-year-old agreement aimed at reforming the IMF system. Thus the post war consensus on financing bodies appears to be breaking down, writes the expert in his RT Op-Ed ‘BRICS building parallel IMF.’

Cuba сalls terrorism designation by US absurd, manipulative

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Cuba labeled as absurd and manipulative an annual U.S. State Department report that once again designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, a setback for advocates hoping for a change in Washington's Cuba policy this year.

The annual Country Reports on Terrorism issued on Wednesday continued to list Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria as countries that have "repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism." Cuba has been on the list since 1982.  The designation carries with it economic sanctions beyond those already imposed in the US trade embargo of Cuba.

Centuries-old ties between Russia & Ukraine not to be broken - Russian official

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The centuries-old ties between Russia and Ukraine can’t be broken either by Western politicians or by "the anti-popular Kiev regime", Valentina Matviyenko, Chairperson of the Federation Council, upper house of Russian parliament, said on Thursday, May 1.

She believes that the crisis in Ukraine was initiated by the United States and Western countries which "once again decided to organise a ‘colour revolution’. But they miscalculated. The Libyan, Iraqi and Yugoslav scenarios failed in Ukraine".

However in the absence of "sources of information that would give an objective picture of the situation, many people in Ukraine are beginning to believe" Western politicians. "They [Western countries] have simply set the task of antagonising people against Russia", Matviyenko told the "Logic of Power" programme on Radio Russia.

Army operation in southeast Ukraine to be Kiev’s last attack - Crimean leaders

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The Ukrainian army offensive against regions controlled by militia in the South-East of the country will become the last attack of the present Kiev authorities, Crimea’s acting Head Sergei Aksyonov and Crimean State Council (parliament) Chairman Vladimir Konstantinov said on Thursday, May 1, commenting on media reports about a possible resumption of the army operation in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

"The crooks in Kiev do not understand that everything they are doing will boomerang on them personally. A war against one’s own people has never done any good. We think they must be put on trial," Aksyonov said, adding, "At any rate, history will make its own assessment of these villains who are sending troops against their own people."

Northern demand at confab, reasonable –Ango Abdullahi

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In this Interview with JOHN ALECHENU,    the   spokesperson for the Northern Elders Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, speaks about the forum’s position on a number of issues at the National Conference

 A document being circulated by northern delegates at the National Conference contains so many demands. Some of which include calls for the scrapping of the amnesty programme, do you support this?

Obviously, it makes sense for government to provide protection for our land and sea resources from degradation and irresponsible oil exploration and exploitation by foreign companies. But when you look at the political intention of government trying to say that certain areas of the country should be treated in a special manner in contrast to other parts of the country that  have similar concerns and problems then it doesn’t make  sense.

Judge guilty of lying over minister’s speeding case

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A barrister and part-time judge has been found guilty of lying to police in connection with the Chris Huhne speeding points scandal, Skynews reports.

Constance Briscoe was accused of trying to pervert the course of justice during the case involving the disgraced cabinet minister’s passing of speeding points to his then-wife Vicky Pryce a decade ago.

Briscoe, 56, who has been suspended since her arrest in October 2012 and denied three counts of intending to pervert the course of public justice, did not react as the jury at the Old Bailey found her guilty after deliberations lasting around five hours.

The truth about 234 Chibok schoolgirls

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Niran Adedokun

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children”

– Nelson Mandela

Over and above every act of irresponsibility to the nation and others in Nigeria, nothing tells of the extent of the erosion of our values like our collective attitude to our children. We are a country that has currently lost every capacity for shock.  Nothing shocks Nigerians again, not even the abduction of over 200 girls from the GovernmentGirls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State and the inability to find them after two weeks.  It is a sad commentary that should make us all bow our heads in penitence. Apparently, we are a country with a dead soul.

CJN, put thief judges in the dock

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AYO Salami’s recent outcry that corruption in the judiciary is still deep-seated is a sore that has refused to heal. His rage was against retired senior jurists who have perfected the act of bribing serving judges to pervert the course of justice. The practice is most abominable; it is a symptom of a judiciary in need of redemption. Salami, a retired President, Court of Appeal, at a conference of the Ilorin branch of the Nigerian Bar Association early this month, also decried the habit of judges meekly submitting to political authorities in order to get patronage.

Just In: Another bomb blast rocks Nyanya, Abuja (Graphic Photos)

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 More devastating news for the country.

Sahara Reporters just sent out a tweet that National Emergency Officials have reported an explosion in Nyanya general part of Abuja.
The news organization spoke with several emergency responders heading to the scene. They are unacquainted with the explanation for explosion.

Loads  of casualties is yet to be ascertained but a number of individuals have died and security officials have taken on the area.
The news comes after the tragic explosion at the Nyanya bus garage in Abuja on Monday 14th April 2014.

Ex-Deputy Senate President, Wash Pam, dies @73

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 Senator Wash Pam, a former Deputy Senator President has passed on. He died today May 1st at the National Hospital Abuja after having a long battle with prostrate cancer.  The elder-statesman from Plateau state served as Deputy Senate President under Joseph Wayas from 1979 to 1983. He was survived by two wives and 18 children. May his soul rest in peace Ase.

Lagos Island issues shoot- on-sight order on hoodlums

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The Security Council, Lagos Island East Council Development Area, has ordered a shoot-on-sight order to the police on  people found carrying guns and other weapons capable of inflicting injuries on members of the public.

The order was issued after an emergency security council meeting summoned by the Chairman of the Lagos Island East Council Development Area, Kamal Salau-Bashua.

No fewer than two persons lost their lives while several others were injured and property worth several millions of naira destroyed in a violence on the island during the Easter celebrations.