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Some soldiers were ambushed and killed in the North East last week by Boko Haram men leading to their colleagues rising against their General Officer Commanding. The fallen soldiers were buried today. May their souls rest in peace. Another photo below

  The bomb explosion that occurred this afternoon at the densely populated Terminus Market near Murtala Mohammed way in Jos is more serious than we thought. The twin explosion, which occurred 30 minutes apart, reportedly killed at least 200 people according to eye-witnesses, making it deadlier than the Nyanya blast. The bomb was planted in two cars, a Peugeot J5 van and a Toyota Sienna SUV with a Gombe state license plate number. Eye-witnesses said the car had been parked near the busy market since early this morning and had even drawn the curiosity of people in the area who allegedly alerted the police. It exploded many hours later. See a photos of some bodies being removed from the scene below   The police have reduced the number of people that died today when twin bombs went off at Terminus market in Jos, to 42, but some eye-witnesses insist the number is way higher than that...marking it up to over 200 because it's the commercial hub of t...

The Senate today okeys the extension of Emergency Rule in the troubled North East states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. The House of Reps had on May 15th approved the extension. With the Senate's approval, extension of Emergency Rule by the Federal Government can now be effected by 6 months.

(AFP) – Two men have been arrested in connection with a suicide car bombing in the northern Nigerian city of Kano that killed four, police said on Tuesday. “Two suspects are now in custody in connection with Sunday’s bombing in Sabon Gari,” Kano police spokesman Musa Magaji Majia told AFP. Majia said the pair were arrested by people at a bus station in the city that was previously attacked by Boko Haram militants after they overheard them talking about the bombing. “They were apprehended and the police station there alerted, which led to their arrest and transfer to the police headquarters,” he added. The authorities have not said who was responsible for the blast, which ripped through the Middle Road area of a predominantly Christian district at about 10:00 pm (2100 GMT) on Sunday. The area is a popular entertainment haunt because of its many roadside bars and restaurants. Boko Haram, which is waging a violent insurgency in northern Nigeria, is suspected of setting off a ser...

There was a loud explosion in Jos, the Plateau State capital at about 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The explosion, believed to have been caused by a bomb, occurred around the ever busy Jos Main Market, between Railway Terminus and the temporary site of the Jos University Teaching Hospital. The explosion was followed by a thick smoke and is believed to have affected many shops and commercial vehicles. It is not known whether anyone was killed or injured. The explosion has however created tension in the area with cars colliding as drivers scampered for safety. Ambulance and other safety providers were seen rushing to the area. The cause of the explosion and casualty is yet to be ascertained. UPDATE : Another explosion sounded at about 3:20 PM around the same area just as our reporter was filing report of the first explosion to his editors. Details later…

Someone's hiding something: Ex Malaysian PM Dr Mahathir (above, left) said the missing plane may have had its MAS airline markings removed and the Australian co-ordinated search out of Perth for debris was 'a waste of time and money' Missing Flight MH370 did not crash and its current whereabouts may be know to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Boeing aircraft company, Malaysia's influential former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has claimed. Dr Mahathir said the plane could have been switched onto autopilot remotely by the CIA if it had been hijacked. 'Remotely by radio or satellite links by government agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency, if terrorists attempt to gain control of the flight deck,' he wrote in an entry entitled 'What goes up must come down' on his blog, chedet. Airplanes don’t just disappear ,' he said. 'Certainly not these days with all the powerful communication systems, radio and satellite tracking and...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit filed by the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido, challenging the powers of President Goodluck Jonathan to suspend him from office. In a judgment Tuesday, the court ruled it had no jurisdiction to hear the matter, saying the matter is a dispute between an employer and its employee. According to Report by Premium Times The National Industrial Court, is in the best position to hear the matter, Justice Gabriel Kolawole ruled. The court had on April 8 reserved judgment till today after hearing the respondent counsel’s preliminary objection and Mr. Sanusi’s counsel’s originating summons, as well as the adoption of same. Mr. Sanusi had on February 24 challenged his suspension from office by the president and urged the court to reverse the decision. The President, the Attorney-General of the Federation, and the Inspector-General of Police were joined as first, second and third defendants respectively, in t...

Vladimir Duthiers speaks with the sister of a girl who appeared in the Boko Haram video showing the abducted girls.

Actor and film maker Prince Eke has released an official press statement in regards to the recent theft scandal involving himself, a South Africa based rapper named Prosper and actress Angela Okorie.   In the statement released exclusively to Encomium magazine, Prince Eke apologized to his fans for getting himself involved in the messy scandal. He also advised Angela Okorie to desist from spreading the allegations of him conniving with Prosper to spoil her name. His statement below... "My fans, family, friends and colleagues, my sincere apology to you all for finding myself in this messy situation out of the fact that I wanted to help an up and coming artiste to realize her dream in movie making in South Africa which I consider as giving back by helping others grow. This is not the first time I am doing this. I have always been into charity works but unfortunately, this has put me and my name in a messy situation just because I had to speak the truth. I say so becau...

Yesterday presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati tweeted some  photos  of Nigerian troops in action ready to engage Boko Haram men of Sambisa forest...turns out one the pics posted is an old picture used in 2012 . See the original photo below     NOA Shares More Photos Of Troops In Action To Bring Back Missing Girls. More photos below NOA is the National Orientation Agency. Continue to see more pics they tweeted of Nigerian troops in action to find missing girls. 

               I guess what this girls is saying happened In December of 2011, but i still can't understand something from this video, if it was a fabricated story or if what the girls is saying actually happened. According to repor t, Deborah Peters was at home in the village of Chibok in Nigeria, with her brother and father, a Christian pastor, when three men knocked on the door. Those men were members of Boko Haram .

Very often we hear that soldiers in battle with the dreaded Islamic sect Boko Haram were killed, but we hardly get to see the fallen officers. Well, here are two of them. The officer on the left is M ajor Olalekan Akintola, aka Lokoso, he was one of the officers ambushed and killed by Boko Haram men last Wednesday night. The officer on the right is  Lt Odushina Oluwafemi, he and his fellow soldiers were killed  when their convoy was ambushed by Boko Haram after their GOC, Major General Abubakar Mohammed, made them make an unusual trip, his friends say. Their deaths  sparked a mutiny against the GOC. Ywe all remember the story last week. The GOC has since been redeployed because of the incident. Lt Odushina Oluwafemi attended Air Force Secondary School Ikeja, and has served as part of the UN peace keeping forces in Darfur. He went to Pakistan for additional training course and was only deployed to Maiduguri in March 2014 where he met his untimely death. May their souls r...

There was a mild drama on Monday in the Daleko Market, Mushin, Lagos State, as journalists searched in vain for an unidentified trader who was said to have lost huge sums of money buried in her shop to the fire incident that razed the market on Sunday. One of the traders, who spoke to Punch, said the businesswoman was in the habit of keeping her money in the underground, instead of a bank. The trader who pleaded anonymity said: “The woman usually keeps money in her shop, and would use her goods to cover it. But we are not sure if the whole money was destroyed by the fire. The theory here is that those that arrived first at the market saw the money and stole it.” While some said the money she lost was between N2m to N5m, others put it higher than that. But an attempt to speak with the woman was unsuccessful as she was said to have gone to Alausa with other market leaders. No fewer than 120 shops were affected in the fire that started around 1:00am as a result of a power surge. ...

Traditional hunters armed with homemade guns, poisoned spears and amulets have gathered in their hundreds, eager to use their skills and what they believe to be supernatural powers to help find nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists. Some 500 hunters, some as young as 18 and some in their 80s, say they have been specially selected by their peers for their spiritual hunting skills and have been waiting for two weeks in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital and the birthplace of Boko Haram, to get backing from the military and get moving. With Nigeria's military accused by many citizens of not doing enough to rescue the girls, the hunters demonstrated their skills to an Associated Press reporter on Sunday. Cow horn trumpets echoed eerie war cries from the screaming and chanting men as they twirled knives and swords with dexterity, occasionally stabbing and cutting themselves with no apparent harm. The hunters claimed their magic charms prevented any blood being dra...

A Nigerian Customs officer known as Mr. Nwaeze has boasted that he is “above arrest,” after bathing a woman in a deadly acid solution two weeks ago. Mr. Nwaeze who is said to head a Customs unit at Mosafejo Aradagun, is quoted as boasting he "can do and undo". The victim is Ms. Tope Fadipe. She is Salesgirl at a local food store run by Mr. Nwaeze's family. She had been selling stocks for the family for about three years before the incident. On Friday, the 9th May, 2014, she was accused of not remitting N50,000 stock sales, and she had argued her defense. However, community residents say, Mr. Nwaeze got frenzied at her refuting the allegation, and a heated argument escalated where he alledgedly had bathed her with a deadly acid solution. Sympathizers say the matter was reported at the Badagry Police Station, and Mr. Nwaeze had boasted no one could arrest him. On Saturday, the 10th of May, one day after the incident, Mr. Nwaeze was said to have ...

With men like this around, the case of séxual gratification for movie roles will go on and even get worst. He is a new movie director, Aniedi Awah Noba. He said he can sléep with any actress he likes and give her a movie role, so long as the actress likes him too and he didn't force her. Here is what the man told Vanguard: “If a director is a man and the actress is a woman and they find themselves attracted to each other, they’re permitted to do anything because they are adults. Where it becomes bad is when one person puts a gun on the other person’s head and make unhealthy demands through some blackmail." The truth of the matter is, you don't need to force girls, just say you wont give them the job is indirect forcing.

LAGOS—GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, condemned the demand by some Christian religious groups in the state that a Christian should be his successor in 2015, saying, “do they really believe in God? It is only God that can insist.” The state chapter of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has recently called for a Christian to succeed the governor in 2015. Fashola, while declaring open an inter-faith conference in Lagos, with the theme: ‘Peace, Religious Harmony and Good Governance: Issues and Challenges’, argued that the insecurity in the nation would reduce drastically if everyone embraced religious harmony. According to him; “People have said that they want one particular governor and I have ask myself two questions – the people who said that they want one particular governor or said that there must be this particular governor, are they still conscious that it is an election where a choice has to be made? If there are two democrats, they shoul...

After over one months of playing the ostrich, the Federal Government has begun talks with Boko Haram on how to free the abducted Chibok girls. The government is also asking the sect to hold its fire in the interest of both parties. But Boko Haram is also making demands. The dreaded group is saying that the military pulls the brakes on its action against its members. The insurgents have also kicked against arrest of their brethren and their detention without trial. According to sources, the “backdoor” talks are being coordinated by Vice-President Namadi Sambo through some clerics and elders in the North. Some of those involved in the talks have met the Vice-President up to five times. It was, however, stressed that the talks is through the back door because the Terrorism Act forbids payment of ransom to such groups. A source in the Presidency, who pleaded not to be named because he is not allowed to talk on the issue, told The Naion: “The government has been engaging ...

Seven years after the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Lagos, Rev Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, aka Reverend King, was convicted for murder and attempted murder, Folashade Adebayo attended a service in the church to see how things are going. Last Sunday was another anniversary celebration of the Christian Praying Assembly, Isolo, Lagos. But as at 9am when Punch correspondent got there, the imposing three black gates of the church were still shut. If not for a number of cars parked opposite the church and a middle-aged man who stood by one of the imposing gates, praying earnestly, one would have concluded that the church, founded by the convicted Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, also known as Rev. King, was on a recess. Rev. King was convicted and sentenced to death for murder and attempted murder in 2007 by a Lagos High Court. He was said to have doused six members of his church, including one Uzoh, with petrol for acts of fornication. Uzoh died on August 2, 2006. Last year, ...

Nigeria is in troubled, I pity our security agents who are made to take heat for politicians failure. The incident at the Port Harcourt refinery is no accident, according to the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a deadly Niger Delta militant group, it is their handiwork and they are going to bomb more facilities. This one is economic Boko Haram. MEND has taken responsibility for Sunday's sabotage attack on pipelines of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) refinery in Okrika, Rivers State. In a statement released on Monday, MEND said: “This facility was infiltrated by a few of our fighters with the aid of our internal agents within the NNPC contrary to speculations that the sabotage was carried out by 'pipeline vandals and oil thieves', which is a very convenient phrase used in shielding the truth from the public.”   The deadly militant group added that if thorough investigations are carried out, government will discover that the bomb ...