Sunday, May 4, 2014
Photos from BringBackOurGirls protest hold in Newyork and D.C
Deadly Twin Bomb Explosion hit Mombasa, Kenya
According to a Sky News report, one blast happened at a busy bus station in Mwembe Tayari, near the city centre, when grenades were thrown into a crowded minibus killing at least three people, and wounding seven others. The other explosion occurred at a well-known beach resort hotel, the Reef Hotel, in the Nyali area of the city, although no casualties are reported in that explosion. A bag was said to have been dropped by the entrance of the hotel which was later discovered to contain the explosive.
Southern states prepare against Boko Haram
Governments of states in the southern part of the country are bracing for possible attacks by the Boko Haram sect. There are fears that the sect, which has its base in the North-East, may extend its targets to the South.
The terrorist group had claimed responsibility for several attacks and kidnappings in the northern part of the country, including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Abuja, the seat of the Nigerian government, has recorded three major attacks in 2014 alone.
Boko Haram suspects in detention at the headquarters of the Department of State Services attempted a jailbreak on March 30, leading to a shootout. The terrorists have also attacked Nyanya, Abuja twice, killing over 100 and injuring many others.
4 Died in well trying to retrieve bucket in Cross Rivers State
Nigerian student bags $350,000 Bill Gates Millennium scholarship
Oloruntobi Dare, a Nigerian student of Hubert Flowers High School is one of the 1000 beneficiaries to win the coveted Bill Gates Millenium scholarship worth $350,000. Oluwatobi who is a naturalized American has shown a regular display of talent and brains since her pre-school in the USA.
Apart from winning the Gates scholarship, she's won other awards including, Most Outstanding Science Student, Hubert Flowers High School, Maryland; Winner, Prince George's Community Church's 8th Annual African American History Essay Contest; 3rd place winner, Maryland Coalition for Gifted and Talented Education Essay Contest 2014; and Maryland Representative at the commemoration of the 70th Anniversary Pearl Harbor Day Parade. Very inspiring. Congrats to her.
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Abuja is under siege — Retired Army generals
There are indications that the Boko Haram attack on the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Thursday might not be last of the deadly onslaughts on the seat of the Federal Government.
Barely three weeks after the sect carried out a car bomb attack on a motor park in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, killing over 75 persons, the sect attacked the same vicinity again with another car bomb, which claimed about 30 lives on Thursday evening.
Some retired Army generals and former senior security operatives, who spoke to SUNDAY PUNCH on Friday, said Abuja was under siege and urged security agents to rise up to the challenge and stop the sect from overrunning the FCT.
Another Presidential Media Chat set to hold tomorrow, Sunday May,4th
"During the programme, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will respond to questions from a panel of journalists and media executives on current national issues and developments. Members of the public who have particular issues they will like President Jonathan to address are also invited to send their questions via twitter to @mediachatng1. President Jonathan will respond to the most significant questions received before or during the programme,” the statement read in part...
SSS Prevents Lamido Sanusi From Traveling Abroad, Seizes His Passport
The State Security Service (SSS) has prevented the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, from traveling abroad. Mr. Sanusi was stopped at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, in Kano, on his way to France for an onward journey to Mecca for the lesser Hajj.
How Borno Governor caused kidnap of Chibok schoolgirls – WAEC
“The Borno state government also refused to relocate the students from Chibok to safer places like Maiduguri.”
The kidnap of over 250 schoolgirls in Chibok may not have occurred if the Borno State Government had heeded the advice of an examination body, fresh facts have emerged.
Aware of the poor security situation in Borno and worried about the safety of students, the West African Examination Council, WAEC, declined to conduct its Senior School Certificate Examination in unsafe parts of Borno, including Chibok.
Horrible: How The Second Bomb Blast Happened In Nyanya – NEMA
The second bomb blast in three weeks happened in Nyanya district of Abuja on Thursday night, May 1, 2014 50 metres from where a fatal blast went off on April 14, 2014.
The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Sanni Sidi has explained the circumstances that led to yesterday’s explosion.
Sidi said during a meeting with journalists at the Asokoro General Hospital that the blast occurred after a parked car exploded.
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Video: Footage at the Scene of New Nyanya Bomb Blast
According to the Punch reports, "Abuja, another explosion claimed about 30 lives on Thursday evening."
Also, another eyewitness who is on ground, said that, "70 people have been confirmed dead so far.."
Eyewitnesses told the reporters that 25 bodies were taken to the Maitama District Hospital, Asokoro, four corpses were dropped at the National Hospital while one body was taken to an unidentified hospital in Nyanya. Scores of injured people were also evacuated by ambulances to different hospitals for treatment. Emmanuel Ezekiel, said that 10 bodies had been deposited in the mortuary while 13 unconscious persons were receiving treatment in different hospitals.
Tragedy: Naval Official loses kids to Fire while turning Wife to a punching bag
According to a hospital official, who pleaded anonymity because she was not authorized to speak on the issue, the deceased children, Emmanuela and Michael, were aged 18 months old and five years old.
She said:
When the children were brought in here, their father, who also sustained some burn
injuries, said they were electrocuted but that turned out to be a lie because when the wife later came, she narrated what actually happened,”
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Ex-military Governor of Delta State kicked the bucket @ 64
US Consulate General Say Terrorists Plan Attack In Lagos
There are 2 Sheraton Hotels in Lagos, but the officials said they didn't have any further data about which of them could become a target (or both) and when exactly. The diplomats urged US citizens to avoid staying in these hotels. Deadly Boko Haram sect, which mostly launched attacks in the North of Nigeria, has carried out two dire bombings in the country capital within last month. This raised fears that insurgents might have changed their tactics and that terrorism might also spread to other parts of the country.
Abject Poverty: 29-year-old person eliminates his own daughter over one plate if rice in Rivers state.
Kingsley, a commercial driver who hails from Nto Osung community in Ikot Ekpene Local Area of Akwa Ibom State, holds just a First Leaving Certificate and has to drive his bus daily through the bustling traffic of Port Harcourt to make ends meet and put food on the table for his young family.
Uncompleted 2-storey Building collapse in Ibadan, one feared dead
Tambuwal will regret all his life if he dumps PDP –Ebenezer Babatope
Chief Ebenezer Babatope, a former aviation minister under the regime of the late General Sanni Abacha, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the ruling PDP. He talks on sundry issues in this interview with TUNDE ODESOLA
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Nyanya, Abuja bomb blast: Hospitals reject victims
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.
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. .......
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