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A suspected female kidnapper accused of abducting eight children was on Friday morning along Emir Road, Ilorin, Kwara State capital, lynched by a mob. The mob descended on the middle-aged woman, beat her, tore her clothes and striped her naked. Officers of the state police command had to disperse the mob with teargas to prevent the suspect from being set ablaze. The incident caused traffic gridlock along the road, as motorists passing through the area could not access the road while the incident lasted.

A photo has surfaced online of a number of children involved in a fatal accident. According to a source, the photo was of a couple of students who were on their way to their JAMB centre before they were involved in the accident at Akoko in Ondo state. May their souls rest in peace.

President Jonathan's daughter Faith married her man Godswill today in Abuja. These are pics from inside the church...will hopefully get pics from the reception later. Continue for more pics...

Five persons were on Saturday arrested in Ogun State for allegedly being in possession of cut human parts. PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the suspects were apprehended at  Joju area of Ota in Ado Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State following a tip off. Confirming the arrest, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, named the suspects as Kubura Salami, Tantolorun Abimbola,Kafaya Popoola, Wahid Ibrahim, and Adamu Rafiu. He said exhibits recovered from them include one human head and pieces of human flesh in a container stained with liquid substance suspected to be human blood. Mr. Adejobi said the Ogun State Police Commissioner, Ikemefuna Okoye, has ordered that the case be handed to the Special Anti-robbery Squad, SARS, in Lagos, which collaborated with the Ogun police for the arrest. The spokesperson said the arrest was part of an ongoing investigation with the Lagos SARS. "Ogun Command will complement Lagos command in the course of its investig...

We have already read so many articles on Heartbleed, one of the biggest iNternet threat that recently came across by a team of security engineers at Codenomicon, while improving the SafeGuard feature in Codenomicon's Defensics security testing tools.  The story has taken every media attention across the World, as the bug opened doors for the cyber criminals to extract sensitive data from the server's memory and almost every major site have been affected by it. UNINTENTIONAL BIRTH OF HEARTBLEED More than two years ago, German programmer Robin Seggelmann introduced a new feature called "Heartbeat" in the most secured open source encryption protocol, OpenSSL, which is used by several social networks, search engines, banks and other websites to enable secure connections while transmitting data. But introducing heartbeat feature cost him dearly, as here the most critical bug resides. Dr. Seggelmann allegedly was just trying to improve OpenSSL and working on an upd...

Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other top websites are scrambling to reassure users that their pages are now safe from the Heartbleed bug. As news of the OpenSSL software flaw spread across the nation, many users simply changed their account passwords. Then came the message that password changes on unsecure sites are fruitless, and panic set in.   While many top sites implemented the Fix OpenSSL software early on and informed users of the renewed safety, thousands of sites have either not implemented a fix, or have not communicated their website's status to accountholders. The Daily Mail created a list detailing who was affected, whether the problem has been fixed, and whether a password change is recommended. Affected major sites include Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Google search, Gmail, Yahoo and Yahoo Mail, Netflix, YouTube, Amazon web services, Dropbox, and LastPass. Some websites, such as http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ , allow visitors to search a domain name to se...

The Malaysian plane has not been found 35 days after it went missing and according to new reports, the co-pilot of the missing flight tried to make a desperate call from his mobile phone after the aircraft went missing but was abruptly cut off... UK Daily Mail reports Investigators have learned the call was made from a mobile phone which belonged to Fariq Abdul Hamid (left) as the Boeing 777 flew low near the island of Penang, on the north of Malaysia's west coast. It was understood the aircraft, with 239 people on board, was flying low enough for the nearest telecommunications tower to pick up Fariq's signal. The call ended abruptly. However, contact was definitely established with a telecommunications sub-station in Penang state. Experts have said it is possible for a mobile phone to be connected to a telecommunications tower at an altitude of 7,000 feet - which is low for a large jet like the Boeing 777 unless it was flying at high speed to maintain height. Yesterday it ...