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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake shook Mexico on Friday, damaging more than 100 homes in the southwestern state of Guerrero and opening cracks in some buildings but there were no reports of deaths. Striking close to the popular beach resort of Acapulco, the 7.2 magnitude quake sent people scurrying out of homes and hotels, causing brief panic from the Pacific coast to states in central and eastern parts of Mexico. At least 127, mostly adobe homes were damaged in Guerrero. In the state capital Chilpancingo, a tower of the cathedral suffered cracks along with a few other public buildings, a spokesman for local emergency services said. But there were no reports of deaths or major damage. Some people in Mexico City fled homes in panic when the quake hit. Electricity was cut off in parts of the city and some residents said paintings fell off the walls, while small parts of masonry crumbled inside apartment buildings. "I had to hold on to a tree, like a drunk," said Pe...

CNN) - New information has come to light about the path taken by Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 before it disappeared from radar screens on March 8. The plane deviated from its planned route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing by turning leftward over water while it was still inside Vietnamese airspace, a senior Malaysian aviation source told CNN's Nic Robertson. The aircraft then climbed to 39,000 feet, just short of the Boeing 777-200ER's 41,000 feet safe operating limit, and maintained that altitude for about 20 minutes over the Malaysian Peninsula before beginning to descend, the source said. Investigators have determined that the missing jet was equipped with four emergency locator transmitters, or ELTs, which are designed to transmit a plane's location to an emergency satellite when triggered by a crash or by contact with water, the source added. The ELTs were at the plane's front door, its rear door, in the fuselage and in the cockpit, said the source, who was...

Fourteen more of the kidnapped Borno female students have escaped from their abductors, an official has said. The Borno State Commissioner for Education, Musa Kubo, on Friday said 14 of the abducted students of Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, escaped from their captors and were found wandering in the bushes by residents who brought them back to Chibok Town. The commissioner said 12 of the girls were found in the forests near Chibok Town, while two other girls were also found by soldiers wandering around the bush near Damboa Town. Mr. Kubo said the total number of students that have been accounted for now stands at 44. He said the government hopes for more to be rescued by the search party that includes soldiers, civilian vigilante, and other security agencies. "I am glad to say that 14 more students have escaped from their abductors. Out of this number, three are currently with me at Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, the scene of the unfortunate abduction...

1. Nweze Uche Silas Male Enugu 2. Bankera Julie Female Benue 3. Abubakar Kano Nyaya 4. Madu Peter Male Benue 5. Emmanuel Ocuna Male C/River 6. Pius Nwaonuan Male Ebonyi 7. Clifford Nwafor Male Ebonyi 8. Attah Friday Male 9. Chidozie Iyake Male Mopo Qaurter 10. Peter Ameh Male Ebonyi 11. Ibrahim salihu Male Kaduna 12. Shamsu Hussein Male Nyaya Market 13. Adamu M Bello male Plateau 14. Osaretin Male 15. Precoius Samuel Female Imo 16. Monday Oshile Male Ebonyi 17. Pat Umar Male 18. Simon Peter Male Kaduna 19. Vera Ojochide Jaja Female Kogi 20. Chibuzor Oshouagwe Male Kaduna 21. Gabriel Peter Ibrahim male Kaduna 22. Olowokere Taiwo Male Ondo 23. Yahanna Ibrahim male Kaduna 24. Gabriel Enyinnaya Male Abia 25. Paul Tanko Male FCT 26. Mustapha Abdullahi male Kastina 27. Oke Adedaya Stephen Male Oyo 28. Esther Paul Female benue 29. Mohammed Shehu Male sokoto 30. Njoku Vcitor male Imo 31. Victor Habilla Male Kaduna 32. Christain Ogbuji Male Back of City Rock 33. Suleiman Abdullahi male gwagwala...

Although there is no official statement from the parties yet, it appears that there is trouble brewing up in the P-square camp. According to celebrity blogger Linda Ikeji, "On Wednesday April 16th, I gathered from industry sources that the brothers fought each other physically during rehearsals. They had to be separated by their dancers. This is fact! I hear one of the wives is causing some of the problems between the brothers." Also, their elder brother and manager tweeted this a few minutes ago "After ten years of hard work, it's over and I'm done!!!" The Okoyes – P-square and Jude Okoye delved into music in 2004 and have been active ever since. So far, they have released six successful albums. Gist Arena

The General Overseer of Christ Citizen Glorious Assembly Church, Pastor Ikechukwu Ezeiru, has been arraigned before the Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate's Court for allegedly selling the church building and land. Ezeiru had earlier been brought before the same court for allegedly defrauding a church member, Ifeanyi Ohazurume, of N7m. The police said on Thursday that the 43-year-old  sold the church building and land on Plots 9A and 9B, Family Estate, Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos, after which he absconded with the proceeds of the sale. The church trustees – Ifeanyi Ohazurume, Stella Johnson, George Ndubuisi and Ozuruonye Onwuka – reported the matter to the police and a manhunt was reportedly launched for the defendant since March 2013 that the incident happened. Upon his arrest, he was arraigned on three counts of fraudulent sale of property and stealing. Our correspondent gathered that Ezeiru sold the church building for N7.5m, while the land was sold for N5m. The charges read in pa...

A 31-year-old woman, Idowu Akinwunmi, has narrated how the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Onikan Police Station, SP Adekunle Awe, allegedly rapéd her, extorted and threatened her life in the station. The victim said the incident occurred on April 15, 2014. She explained that on April 14 she was arrested by the police for "spurious" reasons. In her words: "I work at an eatery on Keffi Street, Obalende, as a cook. The eatery also has a tailor's shop in the compound and it belongs to the same person. There is also a quarters where we all live in the compound.  "Most of the workers are from Cotonou, Benin Republic. On Monday, a popular customer, known as Friday, came to eat. He later left, but some moments later, he returned to say he could not get a bus home. Friday had been making advances at me, but we were not a couple. I allowed him to sleep over." According to what Akinwunmi told Punch, at 1am, her boss, who discovered that some...

I received this SOS message from an MTN staff who took her time to lay out their sufferings: Dear Sirs/ Ma Please I will like to bring to your notice the mismanagement and ill treatment of customer care representatives in Nigeria especially the call center. which is tantamount to corporate slavery by the Online management team and the CCRS service providers. Kindly note that they are termed Independent service provider because they claimed they are not MTN staff nor are they staff of their service providers. But they are being managed by Vendor Management. Please can anyone tell us who vendor management are because they are the ghost running the call center. Please will anyone tell me of the organization that does not intimate their staff of the salary to be paid monthly and the analysis/breakdown of salary paid? Because different numerations was paid in February and March. Since January 13th, 2014, Online Management Team increased the work days of call center agents from 4days to 5day...

Hi people, This is just me trying to help other ladies not to put their bodies through all the stress I have been putting mine through for the past 3 years for the fear of breast cancer. I am not saying we should not be scared of Breast Cancer, all am saying is there are other breast syndromes that are not breast Cancer. I have been doing breast self exams, mammograms and ultrasounds like every 3 months for the past 3 years although last year I was informed that I have exposed myself to too much UV radiation because of the frequent mammograms so my doctor has put me on the ultrasound regimen, if I must, lol. Over 5 doctors have told me my breast are in perfect condition but my fellow sisters even though I know they know their stuff, I still had my doubts and kept on doing scans, lol my friend says its because I have spare cash, one doctor even told me I was hypochondriac, loool. Let me give u a brief history of my breast adventures: I had a lump removed from my left breast in 2010 Did ...