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Geoffrey York is an Africa correspondent for The Globe and Mail, based in Johannesburg, South Africa and he's on Twitter claiming foreign journalists are being blocked form getting visas to cover elections in Nigeria. If this is true, why so? 

A man suspected of being behind the manufacture of explosives used in a series of Boko Haram suicide attacks has been arrested in northeast Nigeria, a senior police officer told AFP on Tuesday. The man, identified only as Ba’na, was held in the Arikime area of Potiskum after several weeks of surveillance‎, said the officer, who was involved in the Sunday arrest. Potiskum, the commercial capital of Yobe State, has been hit by a wave of bombings in recent months, including a suicide attack on a secondary school in November 10 in which 58 people were killed. On January 18, at least four people died in an attack on a bus station, while the previous weekend two women wearing suicide vests killed six people at a market and two died in a car bombing outside a police station. The police officer, who asked not to be identified because he is not authorised to speak to the media, said Ba’na was in his mid-thirties and had admitted making the bombs. “He confesse...

Tanzania has the highest number of killings and attacks of albinos in Africa and trade in body parts of the special people is driven by belief that they bring luck and wealth. From UK  Daily Mail   Tanzania's albinos are being 'hunted down like animals' as greed for money and influence drives families to turn on their own loved ones in a trade allegedly fuelled by some of the country's most powerful people. It is believed albino body parts will bring a person wealth, or luck - and for that, people are willing to pay as much as $3,000 or $4,000 for a limb, or as much as $75,000 - about £50,000 - for the 'full set', a whole body. People with albinism are regularly attacked by people who chop their limbs off - an act which either leaves them severely mutilated, or dead.   Albinism, a hereditary genetic condition which causes a total absence of pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes, affects one Tanzanian in 1,400, often as a result of...

Eight persons were burnt to death after a diesel tanker commuting along the Ogbomosho road in Oyo collided with three vehicles at about 11am today January 27th. According to eyewitnesses, the driver of the tanker lost control of his tanker and crashed into the other vehicles. There was an explosion and 8 occupants from the three vehicles were burnt beyond recognition.

A press statement from the PDP below.. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alerts that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has in its possession, tapes of terrorist attacks on innocent Nigerians, which it intends to air to achieve its selfish purpose. Indeed, upon the release of the tapes, the APC must explain to Nigerians how it got hold of them. We ask, is the APC working in collaboration with terrorist cells, who have been unleashing violence against innocent citizens of our dear nation? Are these the same terrorist groups that earlier nominated the APC Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari to represent them in the dialogue between them and the Federal Government? Nigerians should be worried over the connections the APC might have with insurgent groups especially coming on the heels of recent support expressed to their presidential candidate by the Movement For The Emancipation Of The Niger Delta (MEND). We wish to clarify that this is not an at...

 Finding out your partner has been cheating is painful enough, but when the other woman is your mother, the deceit is almost too much to comprehend.But that's exactly what Kylie, 26, from Sheffield claims happened to her. The mum-of-two shared her story for Channel 5 documentary Wedding Disaster Specials, where she told how she found out her mum and partner were having an affair after catching them watching porn together. Kylie met partner Gary on social media before they finally met face-to-face at her 21st birthday party.She told The Daily Star. "He made me smile, he made me laugh, I felt like I was walking on a cloud constantly," .From there we ended up in a relationship." The couple moved in together five months later. Their relationship moved fast and on Kylie's 24th birthday Gary surprised her by popping the question. "I had never been so happy to share that moment with people I held close. It was a very good night. And then, two or ...

When the video was shown to the husband, his initial reaction was to dismiss the whole scene as a concocted fairy-tale- a sick joke that his haters had pulled, to embarrass and diminish him. How could his wife who had given him four beautiful kids and was there for him as ‘the rock of Gibraltar’ be caught in such a lurid act? His wife was a respected member of the Nigerian community in Maryland, United States and was the hardworking and successful manager of nurses in a reputable Washington DC hospital. But what he didn’t understand was that the video he was being shown had already gone viral and practically every member of the Nigerian community spread all over the continental United States had viewed it several times and were all shocked and filled with righteous indignation over such an embarrassing conduct by an otherwise happily married woman. The video, recorded by a sick and depraved lover of the Nigerian-American nurse, had shown the woman, her face clearly in...

An accidental meeting between 24-year-old hair stylist, Miss Juliet Osimen from Esan West Local Government Area, Edo State, and Austin, a native of Emu-Unoh, Ndokwa West Area, Delta State, in Warri, glued them together. Barely three years into the affair, Austin, shattered the promising life of his lover with a cruel acid bath. Today, after battling to survive with a year-long intensive care at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, Benin, Edo State, Juliet still requires over N5 million lifeline for a medical trip to Indian, as she struggles to pick up the pieces of her devastated life. …  in the beginning According to  Vanguard  Juliet met Austin while working at a fast food centre in the Niger Cat neighbourhood of Ekpan, Delta State, where her father, Pastor Sunday Osimen, farmer and Head at the Mountain of God’s Grace Ministry in the area, also owns a modest home. Recalling the good times, Juliet said: “Austin was very generous in th...

Many have said the PDP governorship aspirant's campaign has been weak in comparison to APC's Ambode..However, it seems to have taken off with full force as a mammoth crowed showed up for Jimi Agbaje's rally in Ikeja today.. More below

Saudi Arabia on Monday executed a man convicted of raping several girls in a case that has captured the kingdom's attention and marks the first beheading carried out under the newly enthroned King Salman. The Interior Ministry said Moussa al-Zahrani was executed in the city of Jiddah. The ministry statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, said al-Zahrani was convicted of luring underage girls, intoxicating them, forcing them to watch pornographic videos and then physically and sexually assaulting them.His alleged victims were children assaulted in 2011 in a string of attacks in Jiddah. The case has caused a stir on social media  which is unusual in Saudi Arabia for cases of violent crimes — in part because the father of 6,al-Zahrani claimed his innocence throughout the trial and two later appeals. Last year, al-Zahrani appealed in a 20-minute video for Saudi King Abdullah, who died on Friday, to intervene. In the widely-viewed video, the 45-...

This is a photo from the bloody scene where Hon. Tobby Onyekele was assassinated on Sunday in Owerri. Before his untimely death at the MRS filling station, Ugwu-Orji along Okigwe rd , Hon.Onyekele was the Commissioner to the House of Assembly Service Commission.  An indigene of Ihitte Uboma,  Onyekele was also a Local government Chairman  during the Ohakim administration. May God grant his family the fortitude to bear the loss

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People don’t often think about how the food they’re eating may be affecting their sex drive, but there are foods that can make your libido plummet. 1. Soy This one is particularly applicable to men. A study down at Harvard University showed a direct link between how much soy a man consumes and how much testosterone he has. The more soy he ate, the less testosterone he produced! Testosterone is a vital hormone linked to sex drive. 2. Mint Mint produces  menthol , which has a cooling effect on the body. However, it can also have a cooling effect on your sex drive! Chewing ginger will do the opposite, so next time you want to freshen your breath, try ginger to heat things up. 3. Microwaveable popcorn For this one, it’s not actually the food that causes the decreased libido, but the packaging. The chemicals on the non-stick lining of microwave popcorn bags contain perfluoroalykl acids, which can kill sexual desire. Instead, try using a popcorn maker. 4. Fri...