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An explosion has ripped through drinking centre in Kano, Northern Nigeria. The blast is said to have occurred around 9.30pm on Sunday evening. The centre is a popular drinking spot in Sabongari area in Kano. Although some residents suggest casualties are likely. The Kano state Police Command confirmed the incident, but declined to provide details. “We heard a loud bang around the Sabongari area but we can only confirm details later,” spokesperson of the command, Musa Majiya told source . “We have since deployed our operatives and bomb disposal experts to the scene.” Details later…

An adopted son of a former military Head of State, General Mohammadu Buhari has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over an alleged N20( Twenty Million Naira only) fraud The suspect, Mohammed Buhari,  was arrested over a transaction that has the trappings of voodoo investment scheme. He allegedly obtained N20 million from one Mrs Florence Nwokocha, purportedly to invest in a lucrative oil and gas business with promises of mouth watery returns to the investor. Buhari was allegedly introduced to the lady by his account officer at Ecobank Plc and he agreed to pay Nwokocha, 30 percent annual interest on the sum. But once the money was transferred,  Buhari cleaned out the account but never paid any interest to the woman.   Sources at the EFCC informs that the suspect claims he ran into trouble after he lost the bank guarantee which he secured from another new generation bank. The bank, he claims, voided the gua...

A female banker and her lover died while having sex at Eziudo autonomous community in Ezinihitte, Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State. According to Daily Trust,the two deceased are Mrs. Adejoke Ayeola, 44, from Iperu Remo in Ogun State, and Wilson Ugwunna, 42. Both have two children each with their respective spouses. Mrs. Ayeola was said to have been married to a traditional ruler in Ogun State. It has been gathered that Mr. Ugwunna’s family were alerted when he failed to show up on April 27, 2014. Both lovers were discovered in a bed together. Mrs. Ayeola’s body was said to having started to decompose, while Ugwunna was in deep coma. The corpse of the woman was taken to a mortuary, as the man was taken to a hospital but later died. Indigenes of Eziudo community disclosed to Daily Trust they strongly suspected the tragedy was caused bymagun, a Yoruba charm commonly used in Yorubaland and usually cast upon a woman suspected of illicit affairs.  The traditi...

In the last couple of weeks our country has attracted the World’s attention for the wrong reasons. The dreadful and appalling crime of up to 300 school girls’ abduction has shocked the world’s conscience. News of efforts to rescue the girls has rather overshadowed the World Economic Forum Africa, whose theme was: Forging inclusive Growth, Creating Jobs. The backcloth of the Forum itself was the statistical exercise that rebased our economy. The result of the exercise made us the largest economy in Africa and placed us among the top 25 in the world. But those numbers are at variance with the lived experience of our citizens. Across the length and breath of this country and in our cities, poverty is so visible, so general and so extreme. Those numbers have no meaning to the well being of the vast majority of our society. The theme of the conference was also at variance with existing policy priorities. The rebased numbers were weighed in favour of the service s...

So there are secret agendas to be executed at the Confab? Plan to use the ongoing National Conference to try to extend the tenure of President Goodluck Jonathan and some political office holders has been exposed. As you read this, a document prepared by one of the delegates from the South-South has been distributed to the delegates seen as loyal to the president on the need to postpone 2015 general elections by 18 months. The document, prepared by Mr Okon Osung, was distributed to the delegates last week. Osung, who spoke with journalists in Abuja on Friday evening, confirmed that he distributed the controversial document. He said, “This calls for the postponement or deferment of the scheduled 2015 elections by at least 18 months, while retaining all the democratic institutions at all levels of governance and across the entire spectrum of the country’s political divide, without any bias to the statutory termination dates of such democratic institutions....

Shehu Sani, a former negotiator between Boko Haram and government, is advising the Nigerian authorities to negotiate with Boko Haram to set free the girls or fight with them .He told CNN “Connect the World” show “There are two ways to which you can get these girls free.The first is to use force, and the second is through dialogue. The use of force is not an option for now in the sense that nobody knows where these girls were kept.And even if you know, these girls have been embedded in with the insurgents who are heavily armed. And any attempt to rescue them will be putting their lives in further danger.” You all know the FG says they won't negotiate with terrorists while Boko Haram says the only way they would release the girls is when they free their members from prison.

15-year-old Baba Goni was part of a vigilante group who saved two of the abducted Chibok girls,raped,beaten and left to die in the bush ..Baba who was once abducted and lived with Boko Haram for 2 years told his story as written by Babara Jones of Mailonline    Their faces scratched and bleeding, the pitiful remains of their once-smart school uniforms ripped and filthy, the two teenage girls were tethered to trees, wrists bound with rope and left in a clearing in the Nigerian bush to die by Islamist terror group Boko Haram.Despite having been raped and dragged through the bush, they were alive – but only just – in the sweltering tropical heat and humidity. ‘They were seated on the ground at the base of the trees, their legs stretched out in front of them – they were hardly conscious,’  Says Baba, who acted as a guide for one of the many vigilante teams searching for the Nigerian schoolgirls abducted from their school last month by Boko Haram.The horrif...

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At a press conference for the Regional Security Summit that held in France today, President Jonathan explained why he hasn't visited the Chibok community, the school or parents of the missing girls... "The school is owned by the State Government but it is the commitment of the Federal government to rebuild the school, build walls to protect it and provide facilities since it is predominantly a school that takes care of girls education so that the girls would be protected. Yes I will visit Chibok, no doubt about that but what we are anxious about now is to locate the girls. These girls are not held in Chibok. If the President goes to Chibok today, does that solve any problem? Maybe psychological problem or for media relevance but you have not solved the problem. The problem facing the President and indeed the Nigerian government is to get these girls from wherever they are" he said See pics of President Jonathan at the summit President...

We need schoolboys to wed Chibok girls –Sect Thirty-four days after the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, abducted over 200 schoolgirls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, it has threatened to kidnap more pupils. The United States of America, France, Britain, Israel and Canada are among the foreign countries that have pledged to help Nigeria find the schoolgirls that were kidnapped by Boko Haram on April 14. The pupils were kidnapped in the night and their hostels were burnt. However, while Boko Haram transported them in trucks to its Sambisa Forest stronghold, over 50 of the schoolgirls escaped from the sect. There have been reports that some of the girls have been seen being moved out of Nigeria. Other reports have said the girls were seen in the northern parts of the Central African Republic where an Islamic militia, Seleka, holds sway. Last week, the leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau, in a video asked for the release of ...

Charity Uzoechima, the 26-year-old girl  who  converted to Islam and kept in the palace of Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, for “safety” for three months, is in the news again. Her  fate and  whereabouts since July last year when she was brought to Government House, Minna, Niger State for reconciliation with her parents  had not been known until days ago when she was said to be prepared and almost given out in marriage to a Muslim lawyer without the consent of her parents. The last time she was brought to public glare was July  3,2013 in Government House, Minna. She was not alone on that day. Her parents, Pastor and Mrs. Raymond Uzoechima; their lawyer, Femi Ikotun; the National Secretary of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Dr. Musa Atake; CAN Chairman, Niger State, Rev. Musa Dada; and immediate past governor of the state, Engr, Abdulkadir Kure; among  other stake holders, were at the peace meeting held at Government House, Minn...

Boko Haram terror, at the weekend, raged in Borno State where 16 persons were feared killed in a fresh attack. According to Vanguard In  two other attacks, five policemen were reportedly abducted with their armoured personnel carrier (APC) while a Chinese was killed and 10 others kidnapped during an overnight attack in Kuseri Village between Gamboru Ngala  council and Cameroun. The attacks put President Goodluck Jonathan and his counterparts from Nigeria’s neighbouring countries meeting in Paris, France, yesterday, under pressure to come up with concrete  steps to address  terrorism in the sub region.   The missing/abducted policemen were identified by sources as Inspector Luka Maina, Sergeant Manya Chaka, Corporals Hassan Dauda, Emmanuel Onoche and Umar Ali. Our correspondent gathered that the Banki incident took place on Friday at about 9:50 in the morning when some policemen attached to Banki Division were attacked by  terrorists whi...