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Nigeria’s Special Forces from the Army’s 7th Division have sighted and narrowed the search for the more than 250 abducted Chibok schoolgirls to three camps operated by the extremist Boko Haram sect north of Kukawa at the western corridors of the Lake Chad, senior military and administration officials have said. “It has been a most difficult but heroic breakthrough,” one senior military official said in Abuja. According to Premium Times That claim was supported by another senior commander from the Army’s 7th Division, the military formation created to deal with the insurgency in the Northeast. The 7th Division is headquartered in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The breakthrough comes at a critical moment for the Nigerian military that has faced cutting criticism over its handling of the kidnapping of the girls more than a month ago. The news is also key for the Maiduguri-based 7th Division a week after a humiliating mutiny by troops of its 101 battalion who fired at the...

University of Jos just announced that they lost 15 students at yesterday's twin bomb blasts that left over 200 people dead. Eight of those students were final year medical students.                  Meet two sisters who died in the Kano bomb blast on Sunday 6 year old Magdalene (left) and her older sister, Sonia, 13, (right) were part of those that lost their lives on Sunday May 18th after a bomb  went off  at a popular drinking spot on Atiken Street in the Sabongari area of Kano state. 8 others died. May their souls rest in peace...amen. 

.....Lol my own is, wetin Judge de look when a court session was on going for him to see the two of them enjoying themselves. This is so funny to me sha A judge suspended a murder trial after spotting two court staff having sex during the hearing. Stunned Anna Ivaldi asked the prosecutor to stop speaking after she looked up and spotted the couple writhing in ecstasy in an office beside the court. They had thought the smoked glass they were behind would mask their steamy antics, but the eagle-eyed judge could still see them.  One of the two is thought to be married, another member of staff said. Judge Ivaldi ordered the trial in Genoa to be stopped while the two employees had their passion brought to an abrupt halt. Witnesses said prosecutor Sabrina Monteverde had just begun their summing up in the case of Moroccan born Yassin Mahmod who is accused of murdering a tramp in the Italian port city last year. A court source said:'The summing up had just begun when the ju...

The multi-billion naira drones purchased by the Nigerian Government in 2006 for the surveillance of petroleum pipelines in the Niger Delta that might have been used by the military in the search for the missing Chibok girls are said to be obsolete due to lack of maintenance & use since they were bought   Vanguard reports that Tsur Dvir, a Marketing Officer for Aeronautics Defense Systems, a firm based south of Tel Aviv, that supplied Nigeria with Aerostar unmanned aerial vehicles, said yesterday that to the best of their knowledge, the drones are not operational. "To the best of our knowledge, these systems are not operational. They (drones) are probably parked in a yard somewhere". He said lack of maintenance have reduced their operational effectiveness and made them obsolete.  Tsur said they received a letter of inquiry for maintenance on the drones from the Nigerian govt but it was never followed through "We did receive an inquiry from them a...

The attacks by Boko Haram on Nigerians do not seem to be abating. At about 4am, at least 30 villagers were killed and several others injured as gunmen attacked Shawa village in Damboa local government area of Borno State. The gunmen crept attacked the town while most were sleeping, they shot and set houses ablaze with petrol bombs. A resident of Shawa village who managed to escape the killings said the gunmen continually chanted “Allahu akbar” (God is great) while shooting sporadically. “It was at about 4am when we began to hear the sounds of vehicles; then it was followed by shooting of guns. We immediately knew we were in trouble”, said Musa Yakubu, a resident of the village, who spoke on phone from Biu where he fled to during the attack.

A member of Boko Haram on Tuesday granted an interview to US news channel, CBS where he revealed that the group spent three months planning the abduction of 276 girls of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, last month. The man who gave his name as Saleh Abubakar told his interviewer that the reports that some of the kidnapped girls are sick and in need of medical attention were false. He claimed to have seen the abducted girls three weeks ago, and that all of them are fine. “It’s a lie,” he said. “They don’t have any problem at all.” Abubakar said the girls would neither be harmed nor sold to slavery as slaves (as Abubakar Shekau initially said), because they had converted willingly to Islam. But he maintained that the government must first release all Boko Haram fighters currently in detention. He refused to answer questions on whether the girls had truly been moved across the Nigerian border, and also declined to speak on al-Qaeda’s alleged involvement with ...

Well known for her skimpy and sexy dress sense, Mercy Johnson Okogie says getting married has influenced her style positively and that she laughs when looks back at some of the dresses she wore before she got married. "Marriage is influencing my dress sense in a more positive way. As I always say my husband is my greatest critic but when it comes to my profession, he understands and has made me grow better than I used to. Sometimes when I look back and see the dresses I wore I laugh real hard and thank God for a blessed and understanding friend, manager and hubby.” she tells Punch The actress also talked about not having any major endorsement deal like her other colleagues "First of all I always remain grateful that I am appreciated and recommended by showbiz personalities and Nigerians. That for me is the biggest endorsement. The other one will come. Keep your fingers crossed. I am humbled, grateful and uplifted and full of gratitude to everyone who ‘Googled’ Mercy J...

People really need to be vigilant with all these fake mad people with negative intentions. The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a suspected mad man for being in possession of arms and ammunition. The man was arrested on Saturday by some vigilant residents of Gowon Estate in the Ipaja area of Lagos. “The people were curious about what he was dumping. Upon closer examination, it was discovered that the mad man emptied one locally-made double-barrel pistol and four live cartridges into the dust bin.  “The youths in the community claimed they have been seeing him around the area as a mad man. He was immediately handed over to the police at Gowon Estate but under interrogation, he was not coherent in his speech. “He was later transferred to the State CID, Panti, Yaba, for further investigation." The spokesperson of the Nigeria Police, Lagos State Command, DSP Ngozi Braide, disclosed this during a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria. Braide said the suspect w...

“I was very angry with every kind of man, anyone that called himself a man. It’s only that I could not manage to hunt and kill them but my desire was to use any weapon to kill men - because one of them killed me. Inside me, I said to myself, 'I will never tell them my status. Whoever comes to me, I will finish him. The way they infected me, I must infect them also'. I don’t know how many men I infected but they are thousands.”  This is the true-life, shocking story of Francis, a prostitute who spent 18 of her 32 years on earth in the séx trade, sléeping with up to six men daily in major cities. It chronicles her diabolical form of revenge after discovering she was HIV/AIDS Positive and her remarkable turnaround at an unlikely destination in Lagos. After giving birth, Ms Francis had a bout of guilt and visited a pastor at Christ Embassy Church to confess her sins. “ After confessing to the pastor, who is also a Nigerian, he met the father of my child and asked if he really k...

Wonders shall never end! Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions said 49-year-old Samson Adeneye and a woman, Oyerinde Olawunmi, 48, have a case to answer in a matter in which a human skull was found in the ceiling of an orthodox church in Lagos. Two policemen attached to Special Anti-robbery Squad – ASP Franklin Alade and Cpl Deleojo Odunayo – were also implicated in the matter, for abuse of office. A human skull was found in the ceiling of the St. Peter Cherubim and Seraphim church on Moses Adebisi Street, in the Ketu area of Lagos. Prior to the incident, Adeneye and Olawunmi, who were former members of the church, were said to have sent threat text messages to some of the church’s ministers.  The two suspects were said to have accused the pastors of occultism and threatened to deal with them and kill them. Both suspects had alerted the two SARS officers that there was a case of gun-running in the assembly. And the policemen reportedly stormed the assem...

This lady you are seeing was actually a man. Transgender Miss Sahara. Am still wondering how a man can transform into a full blown woman, wonders.

Mary Paul Lalai, mother of one of the abducted teenagers of Chibok in Borno State has been confirmed dead. The confirmation was made by the member representing Chibok constituency in the State House of Assembly, Aimu Fona. He told The Nation that on hearing the shocking news of the abduction of her daughter, the mother collapsed and she eventually died of heart attack. Left to mourn the late Mrs. Mary is her husband who is still hoping for the release of two of his daughters held at the Sambisa Forest stronghold of the wicked Boko Haram sect. This is really sad. May her soul RIP!

According to a report by AFP, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA told them that 118 people have been confirmed dead from today's bomb blast in Jos, with several others still under the debris "The exact figure of the dead bodies recovered as of now is 118 and more bodies may be in the debris of buildings which collapsed due to the intensity of the blasts.” Mohammed Abdulsalam told AFP. He also revealed that 56 people were injured in the twin blasts. Plateau state Police commissioner Chris Olakpe had earlier told reporters that only 46 people were killed and 45 others were injured. He later said "We are saying 46. That’s the number we have in the morgues. But we are not ruling out more bodies.” Well, eye-witnesses insists there are way more bodies. At least 200. Many have not been recovered.