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A suicide bomber was killed on Tuesday when his explosives vest detonated as he rode towards a security checkpoint in the northeast Nigerian city of Gombe, witnesses told AFP. A huge explosion rocked the Kasuwar Mata area of the city around 6:30 pm (1730 GMT) while most residents of the mainly Muslim city were at evening prayers. A young boy standing by the roadside was injured in the blast. “We were inside the mosque praying when we heard a loud explosion,” said Kasuwar Mata resident Badamasi Mustapha. “When we rushed out we found a motorcycle on fire and dismembered body parts of a man just 100 metres (yards) from the checkpoint.” Mustapha said residents believed the bomber planned to hit the checkpoint, which is manned by a joint military and police squad fighting the city’s notorious “Kalare” street thugs. An angry mob gathered the bomber’s scattered body parts, whipped them and set them on fire, witnesses said. Gombe has been repeat...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Tuesday, said the report of the probe panel he set up when he held sway as the country’s president did not indict the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen . Muhammadu Buhari of corruption during his tenure as the Petroleum Trust Fund boss. Obasanjo however, said the probe panel discovered that, the Buhari-led PTF was inconsistent in its policies, saying other probe attempts on the activities of the former Head of state ‘was immaterial’. The former President stated this while paying host to Buhari who visited him at his hilltop residence in Abeokuta before his campaign rally at the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abeokuta. Buhari was accompanied by his running mate, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, the party national Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, national leader of the party and former governor of Lagos, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, former Chairman of the People’s Democr...

An Indian state minister has sparked criticism after he announced plans to open treatment centres for the LGBT community to 'make them normal', comparing homosexuals to alcoholics. According to Hindustan times, Ramesh Tawadkar, Goa's minister for sport and youth, said the government in the popular tourist resort would 'cure' homosexuals with 'training and medicines'. He said  'We will make them normal. We will have centres for them, like Alcoholics Anonymous centres,' Tawadkar said, adding that the Goa government would 'train them and give them medicines too '.  Anjali Gopalan, founder of sexual health organisation Naz Foundation, called minister Tawadkar an 'incompetent nincompoop'. If anyone needs treatment, it's people like him... he should realise he sounds like a complete fool,' Gopalan said.

(90 year old woman outside her razed house) One person was killed, 60 houses razed and over 400 persons rendered homeless in a disgraceful inter-communal crisis that broke out, weekend, between youths of Ikot Umiang and Ikot Edah communities, Nkpat Enin Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State. Niger Delta Voice learned that the fracas that caused extensive havoc to the residences of the Village Head of Ikot Edah, Ete Idung Sunday Usoro, and councillor representing Ikpa Ikono, Ward 2, Mr. Nkreuwem James, was kindled by a dispute between two boys from both communities over a girlfriend. Besides property running into millions of naira and money that were looted, about 40 motorcycles, bicycles and ancestral heritages were torched. Two cars belonging to the monarch were also destroyed. A dependable source told Niger Delta Voice : “A young man, who hails from Ikot Umiang and residing in Ikot Edah had a minor misunderstanding with his friend, an indigene of Ik...

This is funny. Chinese custom officials arrested a man who tried to smuggle 94 iPhones from Hong Kong into China today Jan. 13th. According to Chinese People Daily, officials decided to search the man after they got a tip-off that there was something amiss when they noticed he was walking strangely. They first searched his bag and when they found nothing, they searched his body where they found the 94 phones strapped to his body.   The man whose identity was hidden, was bringing in the phones from Hong Kong where it's cheaper to buy to sell in China where tax on the devices have made it very expensive for consumers.

14 people have been arrested in Jos over the burning of two branded buses belonging to president Jonathan's campaign team. The men were arrested by the Special Task Force (STF). The Media and Information Officer of the STF, Ikedichi Iweha, told the media that the men will be interrogated after which those found to be innocent will be released. The police have warned that acts of vandalism will not be tolerated, and people who engage in lawlessness will be arrested.

A 30 year old mother of two shares her story of domestic abuse from her husband who lives & works abroad. She wrote the story herself because she says she's desperate and needs help. Read below... I am Mrs. Uche, I got married 2 years ago to a man who lives and works abroad.     I am currently going through some hell called marriage. I am abused psychologically, emotionally, financially and otherwise. It all started a year after our wedding. That same sumptuous guy I thought was an angel changed automatically into a legendary nightmare. I stopped seeing those characteristics I thought he had before we walked down the aisle to profess our love. He became so arrogant, wicked and proud. He started by rejecting my second pregnancy, hence accusing me of infidelity. Before my first pregnancy, I accepted his younger sister who is a little bit older than me into our home with love, hoping to get some love and appreciation for my kindness. The reverse...

Nigeria's BBA star, Tayo Faniran who welcomed a son with his girlfriend in October 2014 while he was in the BBA house, says he plans to marry her...soon! "I will (marry her), you just keep praying for us. She is already in my house. We came back together. In fact, I have given her a Yoruba name, Ife"- he told Encomium mag

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has extended an olive branch to the People’s democratic party and asked for a peace meeting. In a statement released today by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the APC called for a sitdown with PDP stakeholders to help douse the tension that is building up ahead of the election. They wrote that the call is part of their plan, set up since May 2014, when they first asked for such a meeting with the PDP. The statement read: ”Following up on a meeting of representatives of both parties in Washington, DC, US, April 7-8 2014 under the auspices of the CSIS Nigeria Election Forum, at which it was agreed that a joint meeting of both parties be convened to discuss and agree on the crucial issue of a Code of Conduct for the campaigns and the elections, we wrote a letter to the PDP suggesting a bipartisan meeting to address the issue. ”We have since been following up on the letter, the latest effort being ...

House of Reps today approved the use of the Temporary voters card during next month's general elections. Their position was made known in a series of tweets by Femi Gbajabiamila, the Minority Whip of the House. 

Meet one of the pretty daughters of Gen Muhammadu Buhari. Her name is Zahra Buhari. More pics below

A  jilted wife  in China  has been arrested after she allegedly chopped off her cheating husband's penis twice. According to reports in China, two-timing dad-of-five Fan Lung, 32, used his wife's phone to send lover Zhang Hung, 21, a saucy email from his marital home in Shangqiu. But he forgot to log out of his account and his stunned wife, Feng, 30, came across the message along with several others, which sent her flying into a rage. Furious, she's said to have grabbed a pair of scissors and stormed into their bedroom, where he was sleeping, and snipped off his manhood. Fan was rushed to hospital, where the organ was sewn back on. Bloody: Fan fought with his wife outside the hospital after his penis was chopped off However, Feng is then reported to have sneaked back into her husband's hospital room and cut off his penis for a second time, this time throwing it out of a window. A hospital spokesman said: "The first we were aware of ...

Probably from a movie set! He shared the pic on instagram...

APC Vice Presidential candidate Prof. Yemi Osinbajo pictured with his wife Dolapo at the Ogun state government house. They are in the state for their campaign.    With Mrs Buhari...

Before he became the man we know him to be today!

APC Presidential candidate Gen Buhari and other party leaders visited former President Obasanjo at his home in Ota, Ogun state today a day after president Jonathan visited the former president. Obasanjo reportedly told the group;   "I am a card carrying member of another party but what is paramount in Nigeria so I wish you the best". 

Members of Bring Back Our Girls group led by Dr. Mrs Oby Ezekwesili visited Former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his home in Abeokuta in Ogun state this morning and also paid a visit to Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka at his home. The group said they are visiting them to intervene in the crisis in North east Nigeria. 

The whereabouts of a 38-year-old man, simply identified as Mr. Ojuigo of Upper Sakponba Road in Benin City, remain unknown to family members and friends following a revelation by their nine-year-old house maid, Ada, who accused him of forcing her to engage in oral sex with him when the wife had gone to work. Ojuigo, who is said to have lost his job six months ago in one of the new generation banks along Airport road in Benin, got into trouble when the nine-year-old girl revealed to his wife that the husband had on several occasion forced her to perform sex acts with him with a promise to give her money. He also threatened to kill her if she told his wife or any other person. However, the victim was said to have confided in another girl who lives in the same compound who later told the wife of former banker. Angered by embarrassment, the wife who is a banker, was said have publicly confronted the husband who stoutly denied the allegations. She was said to have...

Traders selling umbrella yesterday praised the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue state for holding the gubernatorial campaign rally in Gboko town of the state. This is even as the Mzough U Tiv, a socio-cultural organization of the Tiv nation called for a peaceful and issue-based campaigns. President of the association, Engr. Edward Ujege assured Terhemen Tarzoor the total support of the organization. The umbrella sellers made bliss business in the place as thousands of party supporters procured the commodity and were using it to symbolize their unflinching support for the ruling PDP. Gboko is the ancestral town of the Tiv nation and the flag off of the PDP campaign rally in the area is to immortalized the legendary of the late Joseph Sarwuan Tarka, who fought for the emancipation of the people. The governorship flag bearer, Terhemen Tarzoor and his running mate, John Ngbede, Benue state Governor Gabriel, his deputy Chief Steven Lawani, as wel...