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This is the man who shot dead 4 US marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee today with a high powered rifle. He also injured a soldier and a police officer. His name is Muhammod Youssuf Abdulazeez and he's 24 years old. He is a naturalized US citizen from Kuwait. He was shot dead after he engaged law enforcement. It is believed he acted alone...and the attack is being treated as a terrorist attack.

#BREAKING Sultan of Sokoto has directed all Muslims to observe Eid Al-Fitr tomorrow, following sighting of the moon in Sokoto, Kano, Borno — NTA News (@NTANewsNow) July 16, 2015 Sultan of Sokoto has directed all Muslims to observe Eid Al-Fitr tomorrow, following sighting of the moon in Sokoto, Kano, Borno

These are graphic photos from the scene of the  bomb blast that occurred at the Gombe Central Market this evening. 48 people were killed. More photos below

These are screenshots from a Youtube video posted yesterday. According to the people who uploaded it, this man stripped himself to his boxers at a bank somewhere in Nigeria after accusing them of removing N25k from his account. He said after several efforts to get them to refund the money, he had no choice but to react. He stormed the bank, stripped himself, sat on the floor and said he won't leave the bank until his money is refunded. Don't know if it was eventually refunded...

CONTRARY to fears being expressed in some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari will overlook the South-East in appointments and execution of capital projects because the zone did not give him maximum support in the last election, he is out to woo the zone, a source has said. According to the source, the President wants to carry all parts of the country along in his administration and would execute projects in the South-East that will surprise his ardent critics. Indeed, a private radio on Wednesday accused him of expressing anti-Igbo sentiments in a recent BBC Hausa Service.So far, the President appears not to have factored the South-East in his initial appointments of media aides and service chiefs. The presidency has dismissed the private radio’s claim as unfounded. A statement issued by Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said the claim was “completely false, malicious and slanderous” because the voice being ascribed...

The Nigerian-born Polish parliamentarian,John Godson,who's currently a member of the Sejm;the Polish Lower House of Assembly,representing 9-lodz constituency in Poland,recently paid a visit to his hometown. The Abia-born,uploaded these pics on his Facebook wall yesterday,captured "paying a courtsey call to the Governor of Abia State,Nigeria - H.E Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu" and "Meeting with the leadership of the Abia State House of Assembly" respectively.

Terror comes to the US. According to breaking news, four US Marines were killed when a gunman attacked 2 military sites in Chattanooga, Tennessee, today Thursday July 16th. The man has been identified as 24 year old Muhammod Youssuf Abdulazeez & he was born in Kuwait. According to FBI, 11 minutes before the shooting, ISIS twitter account used derogatory words to insult the US and wrote #Chattanooga. This is being treated as a terror attack. From  CNN , The suspected shooter is also dead, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke said. Investigators "have not determined whether it was an act of terrorism or whether it was a criminal act," Ed Reinhold, FBI special agent in charge, told reporters. "We are looking at every possible avenue, whether it was terrorism -- whether it was domestic, international -- or whether it was a simple, criminal act." The shootings unfolded at two sites over 30 minutes, Reinhold said. The suspected gunman started sp...

The PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, has said his party would reject any election conducted by the Acting Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Mrs. Amina Zakari, because she is a ‘daughter’ to the president head of state and her elections cannot be credible. Metuh said it is surprising to him and indeed the world that the president can appoint someone who is his daughter to such a position. Metuh said these today when he paid a courtesy visit to kari,the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute in Abuja. Hear him; “We have INEC and the idea is that people heading it should be above board, but the present ruling party has appointed the ‘daughter’ of the President to head the position. “There is no where in the world where such has happened, a person who has a relationship with the President. “I am drawing the attention of the IRI to this. Buhari has appointed his ‘daughter’ as INEC Chairman, we...

Ahamefula, the son of Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha graduated with a first class in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester today July 16th. His parents were there to witness his graduation. 

One of the four suspects paraded by the police in connection with the March 12, 2015 robbery of the Lekki branch of First City Monument Bank, Ebi Tosan, has sued the police, seeking damages in the sum of N1m. The twenty-year-old, who was arrested on April 5, 2015, claimed that it was unlawful for the police to continue to keep him in detention without admitting him to bail. Tosan, who was paraded by the police along with three others  – Duke Odogbo, 38; Lawrence Kingsley, 31; and Ekelemo Kuete, 30 – is therefore seeking a court order directing the police to immediately release him on bail. The suspect’s lawyer, Chief S.W. Baidi, argued that his client’s continued detention without bail was an “infringement and curtailment of the applicant’s constitutional right to personal liberty, freedom of movement and presumption of innocence.” He is seeking a declaration that his arrest, torture and continued detention by the State Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, without bail,...

The Federal government has sacked the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Ziakede Akpobolokemi. A statement by the Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina today July 16th, says Akpobolokemi's sack is with immediate effect. In a related development, the governing board of all Federal paralstatals, agencies and institutions have been dissolved with effect from today July 16th. A statement from Mr Adesina to this effect states that all issues concerning the federal parastatals, agencies and institution should be directed to the president "Until the boards are reconstituted, Chief Executive Officers of the affected parastatals, agencies and institutions are to refer all matters requiring the attention of their boards to the President, through the Permanent Secretaries of their supervising ministries. While the dissolution does not affect Federal Executive Bodie...

An email from a  reader The Nigeria High Commission in London needs an urgent overhaul. This afternoon we Nigerians were treated like animals in Fleet street London all because we want to do BVN for those of us that have accounts in Nigeria. Things soon became chaotic and someone called police on us. They allowed us converge on the street and then locked us out. We are also being forced to pay £30.00 each but none of the officials or the website can explain what the money is for. Is it not free in Nigeria?

President Muhammadu Buhari has denied expressing anti-Igbo sentiments as alleged by the propaganda channel, Radio Biafra. The claim by the radio that the president disparaged the Igbo ethnic group in a BBC Hausa interview, is completely false, malicious and slanderous, presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said Wednesday. Mr. Shehu said the voice being ascribed to President Buhari in the recording, repeatedly played back by the pirate station, is definitely not the president’s. “No one should be deceived by the pirate radio station’s hate propaganda against the president,” Mr. Shehu said in a statement on Wednesday. The comments were the Nigerian presidency’s first official response to the controversy generated by the underground channel’s broadcast. The government said on Tuesday the station had been taken off the airwaves, a claim that turned out false. Mr. Buhari said he has not granted an interview to the BBC since March 31 when he was declared w...

An Ogun State High Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment a retired soldier, Alabi Ibrahim for raping and infecting his 10-year-old step-daughter with the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV). Ibrahim, 63, had in 2012 committed the crime in his home where he lived with both the victim and her mother who was married to him. The convict was arrested and arraigned for trial following the intervention of a non-governmental organization, Child Protection Network. He was re-arraigned in court last week and remanded in prison custody. During the ex-soldier’s trial under case number AB/37/C/14, a medical report issued by the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, and tendered in court established that the convict had sexually assaulted the 10-year-old girl and also infected her with HIV. The medical report tendered by Dr. Seyi Adejobi stated that after the victim was defiled, blood tests also revealed that she had been infected with H...

At least N11.55 trillion or  $84.52 billion  expected revenue into the coffers of the nation’s Excess Crude Account for the eight-year period from 2007 to 2014 are unaccounted for, according to findings by  PREMIUM TIMES  based on now available data from multiple government agencies not made public until now. The ECA accounting has remained perhaps one of the most opaque public fund mechanisms in the country, puzzling even state governors who repeatedly challenged former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for lack of transparency and accountability regarding the organization of the fund. After a recent National Economic Council meeting in Abuja, a committee of state governors angrily lashed at Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala, accusing her office, as supervisors of the fund, of arbitrariness and probably illegality in the management of a fund meant for the three tiers of government but which the ministry of finance apparently ran as a sole federal government fund. ...