Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Nyanya Bombing alleged Kingpin nabbed & delivered by INTERPOL to Nigeria
Many killed, churches, houses razed as Suspected members of Boko Haram invades Borno
Suspected members of Boko Haram sect very early yesterday morning July 14th invaded Dille Village in Askira-Uba LGA of Borno State, killing at least five people and razed 3 churches including the Church of Brethern in Nigeria, EYN, as well as shops and residential buildings. Security officials were said to have arrived the village in two Nigerian Air Force fighter jets and killed many of the terrorists. Dille village is around the shores of Sambisa forest.
Adamawa state Governor Nyako impeached, deputy resigns position
The report, which was read by the State Assembly Speaker Umaru Fintiri on the floor of the House, found the governor guilty of all the 16 allegations of gross misconduct. 18 out of the 24 members of the State Assembly then signed a resolution removing the governor.
Giant Nigerian snails seized & Confiscated at Los Angeles Airport
The snails based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture are prohibited because they can to carry parasites which are damaging to humans, including one that could result in meningitis. Additionally they say it could destroy local crops. Continue...
#3 of 10 Cheapest Nigerian Cities to Live In Nigeria
ABEOKUTA
Abeokuta is the capital of Ogun State and a vivid city merged with cosmopolitan vibes. The town offers low cost of living, cheap housing, quality educational facilities and modern amenities. Residing in Abeokuta is reasonable and diverse. Enjoy cheap amazing foods, stellar public transportation and excellent healthcare facilities. You can live like as a king in Abeokuta, make more, spend less and save more.
#4 of 10 Cheapest Nigerian Cities to Live In Nigeria
MAKURDI
Makurdi ‘s motto is ‘The Food Basket Of The Nation’, it is the capital of Benue and unlike most capital cities that are very expensive to live in, Makurdi cuts a clear line in being an affordable place to reside. Tourism is a rapidly growing part of the local economy, the infrastructure is well developed and residents get overall satisfaction as life in Makurdi is simpler than in other major cities. The cost of living is low and buying a property (Land or house) is very easy.
Six People Electrocuted In Anambra During Burial Ceremony
During the burial ceremony of a chieftain of Nnanka community, Anambra State, James Ibe on Saturday, six persons were electrocuted by a 33kv High Tension wire.
According to reports, the tragic incident happened when the victims were erecting canopies for the burial ceremony of the deceased – the men had lifted the canopy to place it in the appropriate spot when the tip of the canopy touched the 33kv high tension wire and got the six severely electrocuted with one person dying instantly.
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War on Terror: Police arrest another ranking member of Boko Haram
*Suspect says he is the “Chief-Butcher” of Balmo Forest
Following the massive onslaught by Security Forces on the activities of the insurgent group, Boko Haram, at the Balmo Forest Bauchi State, Police detectives attached to Bauchi State Police Command on Saturday, 12/7/2014 about 2pm have arrested one Mohammed Zakari, a male of 30 years old and senior member of the Boko Haram terrorists’ organization along Darazo-Basrika Road while fleeing from the intensive counter insurgency operations going on around the Balmo Forest. The suspect, who hails from Kaigamari Village, Daptchari in Darazo Local Government Area, #Bauchi State is the self-styled “chief butcher” of the insurgent group at the Balmo Forest Camp and is linked with the recent slaughter of seven (7) people, including women and children. Findings as well as disclosures from the suspect will assist the Law enforcement agencies in tracking down some other members of the terror cell.
Following the massive onslaught by Security Forces on the activities of the insurgent group, Boko Haram, at the Balmo Forest Bauchi State, Police detectives attached to Bauchi State Police Command on Saturday, 12/7/2014 about 2pm have arrested one Mohammed Zakari, a male of 30 years old and senior member of the Boko Haram terrorists’ organization along Darazo-Basrika Road while fleeing from the intensive counter insurgency operations going on around the Balmo Forest. The suspect, who hails from Kaigamari Village, Daptchari in Darazo Local Government Area, #Bauchi State is the self-styled “chief butcher” of the insurgent group at the Balmo Forest Camp and is linked with the recent slaughter of seven (7) people, including women and children. Findings as well as disclosures from the suspect will assist the Law enforcement agencies in tracking down some other members of the terror cell.
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Monday, July 14, 2014
Kidnappers den discovered in Orlu, Imo State
Lagos issues alert on Ebola virus, gives precautionary tips
The Lagos state government has issued an alert on the deadly Ebola virus currently sweeping through some West African countries. The government in a statement signed by the state's Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, issued the alert as a precautionary measure to forestall the outbreak of the virus in the state. Countries like Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea have recorded a number of cases of the disease. The statement reads in part below;
Don’t challenge Fayose’s victory, Falana tells APC
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has said the All Progressives Congress was wrong to challenge the results of the June 21 governorship election won by the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Mr. Ayo Fayose, in Ekiti State
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria said during an interview with our correspondent that the APC ought to build on Fayemi’s concession speech and reorganise its affairs.
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Nassarawa lawmakers start impeachment proceedings against the Governor
Terrible Photos emerge of 25 women who were slaughtered in Baghdad after being branded prostitutes
Horrific pictures have emerged showing the bodies of a 25 women murdered in a raid on a Baghdad brothel. Gunmen wearing camouflage and carrying weapons fitted with silencers reportedly burst into two apartments in the city's Zayouna district on Saturday evening before massacring everyone inside.
Police reached the building to locate blood streaming down the stairs. Inside they discovered the bodies of a large number of women scattered around two apartments
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Nigeria meets all criteria for ECOWAS single currency – CBN
Nigeria is the only country in the region that has met the “primary convergence criteria”.
The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, on Economic Policies, Sarah Alade, said Nigeria meets all the criteria to adopt the ECOWAS single currency.
Ms. Alade made this known at the 37th Technical Committee meeting of the West African Monetary Zones in Abuja.
She said Nigeria is the only country in the region that has met the “primary convergence criteria” which were set for the member-states in 2013. There are four primary criteria including the attainment of single-digit inflation rate at the end of each year and fiscal deficit of not more than four per cent of Gross Domestic Product, GDP.
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Inhuman: Ritualists Cut Off Woman’s Head in Ondo
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Photos: Malala Yousafzai meets Pres. GEJ
“I personally believe that since about 50 per cent of our population are female, we will be depriving ourselves of half of our available human resources if we fail to educate our girls adequately or suppress their ambitions in any way. We are therefore taking steps to curb all forms of discrimination against girls and women, and have also undertaken many affirmative actions on their behalf" he stated. See more photos after the break....
3 Men Nabbed In The UK For Sexual Exploitation and human trafficking. [PICTURED]
According to Daily Mail UK, a 23-year-old Nigerian girl was conned into flying to Heathrow Airport on a bogus passport, with the promise of education, a job and new home.
When she got to London, she was molested, beaten and subjected to “juju” ritual before being sent to Italy to become a prostitute.
Video: Dead young girl Wakes Up at Her Own Funeral
A cellphone video has captured the incredible moment a 3yr old girl woke up during preparations for her own funeral in a church in Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, in the Philippines. The girl had been declared dead by doctors at a local hospital on Friday July 11th after being taken there the day before suffering from a fever for several days.
Impeachment: Panel indicts Nyako, absolves deputy
It was learnt in Abuja on Sunday, that the panel set up by the immediate past acting Chief Judge of Adamawa State, Justice Ambrose Mammadi, to investigate allegations levelled against the duo arrived at the decision after reviewing exhibits tendered by members of the State House of Assembly who are the complainants.
Fashola to Nigerians: 'If You Want to Have Stable Electricity Supply, Vote PDP Out in 2015'
According to The Nation, Fashola said electricity crisis in the country is caused by lack of ideas and insincerity of purpose on the part of Federal Government.
Nigeria democracies represent the interests of Nigeria leaders and their Colonia masters.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker
Freedom will not be seized through voting within the political parameters of corruption. It will be seized through revolting. They do not care about your interests whatsoever. Nigeria leaders monopolies steal from Nigerians, they torture the poor, they rob the country. There's no democracy in In Nigeria. Nigeria leaders hate political freedom. They hate democracy. They hate political rebellion. They just want the poor to die.
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Emmanuel Ifeajuna: Commonwealth Games gold to facing a firing squad
The first time Emmanuel Ifeajuna appeared before a crowd of thousands he did something no black African had ever done. He won a gold medal at an international sporting event. “Nigeria Creates World Sensation,” ran the headline in the West African Pilot after Ifeajuna’s record-breaking victory in the high jump at the 1954 Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver. He was the pride not just of Nigeria but of a whole continent.
An editorial asked: “Who among our people did not weep for sheer joy when Nigeria came uppermost, beating all whites and blacks together?”
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Harry Potter actor David Legeno found dead in California aged 50
Hikers found British actor, who played werewolf Fenrir Greyback in Harry Potter films, in a remote area of Death Valley
British actor David Legeno, who appeared as a werewolf in the Harry Potter films, was found dead by hikers in a remote area of Death Valley, California police said on Friday.
The Inyo County sheriff’s office said the body of Legeno, 50, was found early on Sunday morning and a helicopter was used to transport it from the area.
Photos: Man allegedly nabbed with explosives at Awo Hall in OAU
Death toll from Ukrainian shelling of miners' village near Donetsk rises to 12
The death toll from a Ukrainian attack on a miners’ village near the Trudovskaya coal mine in a suburb of Donetsk has risen to 12, the Donetsk city administration reports.
Earlier reports said that six people had been killed in the attack, which occurred on Saturday.
The Donetsk administration offered condolences to the victims’ families
Obanikoro To Aregbosola: Start Packing Your Bags Now
Obanikoro, who made the declaration at a thank-you rally of the PDP's governor-elect in Ekiti State, Dr. Ayodele Fayose held at the Freedom Park, Ojota.
US ready to 'intensify' efforts to reach peaceful settlement in Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petr Poroshenko held telephone consultations with US Vice President Joseph Biden, Interfax cites the Ukrainian president's press service as saying.
"The talks dealt with intensive coordination between Ukraine and the United States, and with the European partners. Biden assured the Ukrainian president that the United States was prepared to intensify international efforts to forge a peaceful settlement," it said.
The US vice president conveyed his condolences to the Ukrainian people over combat losses, according to the press service
Amid spy scandal Kerry remains unfazed, calls US, Germany 'great friends'
US Secretary of State John Kerry, standing alongside Germany's foreign minister on Sunday, stressed the strategic importance of relations between the two countries, which have been battered by new allegations of US spying on Berlin.
"Let me emphasize the relationship between the United States and Germany is a strategic one," Kerry said in Vienna on the sidelines of nuclear talks with Iran. "We have enormous political cooperation and we are great friends."
Israel mobilizes 20,000 troops for possible ground attack along Gaza border
Israeli forces take up positions along the Gaza border, waiting for the green light for a possible ground offensive after six days of air strikes, reports Reuters. Israeli army tanks line up on the Gaza border Sunday. A ground war seems likely - especially in the wake of reports that Israeli commandos conducted an overnight raid on Gaza.
So far, at least 20,000 reservists have been mobilized.
But despite intensified Israeli military action, Islamist Hamas continued to launch rockets on Israeli cities. In the Israeli city of Ashkelon, one teenager was seriously wounded after being hit with shrapnel in the head and chest, reports Reuters.
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Nigeria loses ₦376bn to pipeline vandalism
The Managing Director of Pipeline and Product Marketing Company (PPMC), Prince Haruna Momoh, said Nigeria lost N376 billion between 2008 and 2013 to pipeline vandalism.
Momoh stated this on Saturday in Uyo at a capacity building workshop for energy correspondents.
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'We are Ready to Expose all Northern Sponsors of Boko Haram' – Ex-Militant Leaders
Some Ex-militant leaders in #Ondo state under the third phase of Amnesty programme has pointed accussing fingers as some Northern leaders for being behind the spate of bombing and abduction perpetrated by the deadly terrorists group, Boko haram since 2011,
Speaking at the end of a state of the nation meeting by ex-warlords in the Niger-Delta struggle in Ore town, Odigbo council area of Ondo state at the weekend, the ex-agitators said they were ready to expose every Northern leader behind the Boko Haram sect.
APC calls for inquiry to unravel Boko Haram sponsors, modus operandi
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for an international inquiry into the activities of the terror group Boko Haram in order to unravel its modus operandi and sponsors as well as any individual or group that may have links with the insurgents, with a view to ending, once and for all, the debate over who is behind the insurgency and also to facilitate efforts to tackle it decisively
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the inquiry should include intelligence experts from the US, UK, France and Canada, as well as representatives of the UN and Nigeria’s neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
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Ukrainian army uses about 70 tanks in offensive on Lugansk - Donbass self-defense.
Ukrainian law enforcement units have assumed a large-scale offensive on Lugansk, the militia said.
"Fierce fighting is underway on the limits of Lugansk. The situation is not clear yet, but reports that the enemy deployed two compact armored groups of about 70 tanks in all, are being confirmed. Immediate unverified reports indicate that a special police task force was dropped on the city from helicopters," Vladislav Brig, spokesman for the Donbass militia, wrote on Facebook.
The offensive on Lugansk was launched from the southern and western directions, he said, Interfax reports.
Liberia: Nigeria Donates U.S.$500,000 to Liberia's Fight Against Ebola.
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has announced his country's donation of US$ 500,000 to the Government of Liberia to aid with the fight against the deadly Ebola Virus.
Tinubu will relegate Yorubas to the ground with his greed.
Seyi Etaje wrote:
"After Ekiti elections I just started seeing Yorubas as very malicious people. Kilode. The abuse people from Ondo got is not as bad as what the people from Ekiti are getting. Contrary to what people are saying. It is not rice that made them change. It wasn't even Fayemi that was the problem. Fayemi is a good man in a wrong party. Apc lost their bearing a long time ago. Thanks to Tinubu. He has made nonsense of awolowos policies. Installing people here and there. Joining Gambari and the worst of all denying south west the number four position in Nigeria. what kind of bad belle politics is that. Then the southwest started shouting that they are marginalised. Who caused it? I loved Tinubu so much before. In my house I would argue with my dad who is biased because Jonathan is from south- south like him.Happy Birthday To Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka Who Clocks 80years Today.
When people think of Wole Soyinka, it’s probably as the author of the powerful autobiographical work, The Man Died (1971), a collection of notes from prison. But more than that, W.S. as fondly known in literary circles, is identified around the world as the recusant specialist who refused to submit to madmen that run and ruin Nigeria since independence in 1960. The rest of the story need not delay us.
How I eliminated , Drained Teenager’s Blood For Money Ritual – Suspect
The Ibadan-born suspect claimed he was tempted to opt for money ritual after his wife left with their two children when feeding became an uphill task for him.
Photos: Charms Found In Boko Haram Underground Arm Storage Facility In Balmo
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Viewers discretion advised: Massive 110Kg Tumour Eliminated From Man Who Could Not Move For 2 decades
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It took 9 doctors and 960 minutes (16 hours) of painstaking work to remove 110kg of unnecessary flesh. During the operation the unusual patient, Yang Jianbin, received 5000ml of blood, which is more than the entire amount an adult’s body holds.
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Strong quake, minor tsunami hit Japan
A minor tsunami has hit large swaths of northeastern Japan, including in a city near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, after a strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the country’s Pacific coast
There were no immediate reports of damage following the quake and tsunami early on Saturday, however, with authorities lifting all advisories roughly two hours later.
Much of the coastline covered by the advisories is still recovering from the 2011 quake and tsunami disaster that killed more than 18,000 people and triggered a meltdown at Fukushima.
Saturday, July 12, 2014
#3 of Top 17 Oldest Spinsters In Nollywood (BIMBO AKINTOLA)
3 BIMBO AKINTOLA:
I Can’t Be Forced Into Marriage; I Don’t Need a Husband
43 year old Bimbo Akintola has always retreated that she is not looking for a husband and cannot be forced into marriage because of societal pressure.
So, what is the worst rumour you’ve heard about yourself?
Oh, that I’m looking for a husband, that I’m desperate for a husband. That’s the worst I’ve heard and that’s the latest one. I’m not looking for a husband and I don’t need one. Continue
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