Two Blasts In Damaturu: 50 Killed

Two women on Friday detonated Improvised Explosive Devices in two screening areas for intending Muslim worshippers in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, killing a total of 50 persons.

Nigerian Army spokesman, Col. S.K Usman, who made the announcement, said the blasts took place at Gwange, where 43 persons were killed; and at Phase One‎, where another seven lives were lost.

He added that several persons were critically injured, but did not say how many.

The new Chief of Army Staff, Maj Gen T. Y Buratai, is observing the Eid el Fitri with the troops in the city aimed at boosting the morale of his men.

NAFDAC In Rotting State, Petitioners Say, Alleging Fraud And Waste

Dr. Orhii, a cousin of then notorious former Attorney General, Michael Aondoakaa who took up his cause before President Umaru Yar’Adua, was appointed to head the agency in January 2009.

The petitioners say the ongoing frauds include frivolous contract awards and supplies (LPOs), manipulated publicity efforts, donations, international air travel racketeering, and compulsory recertification by bottle and sachet water producers.  The complaint lists 14 companies that are being used in the money games at NAFDAC.

South Africa returns seized $15 million to Nigerian government

The government of South Africa has reportedly returned $15 million to the Nigerian government.

The South African border authorities had on September 5, 2014 seized $9.3 million meant for the procurement of arms for the Nigerian military, from two Nigerians and an Israeli who arrived the country in a private jet.

Custom officers discovered the money stashed in three suitcases after the suitcases were put through airport scanners.

Boko Haram Kills 43, Slits Throats in Borno

Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect have continued their bloodlust, killing at least 43 persons across four villages in Borno State. The gunmen slit the throats of many and fired at fleeing crowds.

Obama to Break Tradition for Buhari

US President ‘ll host Nigerian leader at Blair House for three days

IN demonstration of his readiness to do closer business with Nigeria, United States President Barrack Obama will be breaking his administration’s tradition when President Muhammadu Buhari arrives in Washington D.C. on a state visit on Monday next week.

The American leader will host President Buhari as his personal guest at the Blair House, right opposite the White House.

Stay away from Benue state, governor Ortom warns homosexuals

While hosting the Prelate of the Anglican Communion of Nigeria, Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, in Makurdi yesterday, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State asked homosexuals to stay away from the state, warning that his administration would not spare anyone caught practicing it in the state.

    “Gay lifestyle is alien to the customs, lifestyles, and the belief of Africans and the church, even though it is being promoted in the Western world. I sincerely pray that a revival would spring from Benue State and produce evangelists that would drive evangelization in Africa and the Western world because the personal knowledge of the Lord Jesus is the solution to the decadence sweeping across many nations today.” Ortom said (Vanguard)

Nigerian man jailed in the UK after he falsely used online photo of a US soldier to dupe 2 women

27 year old Nigerian man, Tosin Olasemo has been sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison by a UK court after he was found guilty of using the photo of a US soldier fighting in Afghanistan to dupe two white women he met on a dating site of £250,000.

Tosin, who lives in Cardiff, UK, set up a profile on match.com using the photo of an unidentified US soldier in uniform, to trick his victims into believing he was serving in Afghanistan. He called himself Captain Morgan Travis to his first victim, and Michael Travis to his second victim and claimed to be based at Camp Joyce but he was actually living in Moira Street in the Adamsdown area of Cardiff.

We’ve jammed Radio Biafra transmission signals' - FG

According to a report by Vanguard, FG confirmed yesterday that they have succeeded in jamming the transmission signals of Radio Biafra, which they say have been operating illegally from an unknown location. Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Information, Yemi Folasade-Esan, told State House correspondents

"Right now, the signals from Radio Biafra have been jammed. The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has successfully jammed that. The NBC is also working with security operatives to get those behind that radio because it is an illegal radio. It is not licensed by anybody to be on Nigeria’s airwaves."

Unknown gunmen kill former OAU lecturer

A former lecturer at the Department of Agricultural - Economics, at Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Dr. Adedeji Iyanda Adejobi, (pictured above) was murdered yesterday July 14th by unknown gunmen suspected to be hired assassins. Dr. Adejobi was killed in a shootout along with a security man at Madomo road Ile - Ife. Police are now investigating his death.

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17yr old Nigerian schooling in UK drowns in Canada while on school trip

A 17 year old Nigerian boy, Jamal Ottun, a student of Wallington County Grammar School in South London drowned while swimming with his school mates at the Shawnigan lake on Vancouver Island, Canada on Sunday July 12th. According to reports, the talented sportsman was in Canada with his school's Rugby team for a Rugby tour when the sad incident happened. He had gone swimming with his team mates when he drowned. Efforts to revive him afterwards failed. He was his father's only son. After the cut is a statement released by the school on his death...

Bomb Blast Targets Kano Mosque

It has been confirmed that a bomb blast occurred in Kano, according to a multiple sources speaking to a correspondent located in Kano State.

The bomb blast targeted a mosque near Dangi Juntion along Zaria Road.

A Murtala Muhammad Hospital source has confirmed that the hospital has began receiving casualties from the blast.

Nigerian Military Releases 182 Boko Haram Prisoners In Maiduguri

SaharaReporters has confirmed that the Nigerian Army has released 182 prisoners from Maimalari Barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State. These prisoners were detained because of their suspected ties to Boko Haram and were reportedly released to the Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima.

SaharaReporters confirmed that 40 boys, 24 women, and 18 children were among those released today. About 100 adult men were also released.

Suicide Bomber Kills Five In Redeemed Church In Yobe

 

A female suicide bomber this morning detonated explosives strapped to her body during a service at a Redeemed Christian Church in the town of Jigawa in Yobe State, killing five worshipers, including the presiding pastor.

Jigawa town, the location of the deadly attack, is on the outskirts of Potiskum, the capital of Yobe State in Nigeria’s northeast zone.

Buhari condemns latest Boko Haram killings

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday condemned the latest killings by Boko Haram in Borno State.

In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President described them as most inhuman and barbaric.

President Buhari said the murder of up to 150 innocent men, women and children in Kukawa is a very heinous atrocity which must be unreservedly condemned by all people of conscience.

Boko Haram kills 11 defecting members in Borno

The Boko Haram sect on Friday killed 11 of its members for attempting to defect.

The former rebels had allegedly fled from a Boko Haram camp near Miringa village in Biu Local Governmet area of Borno State.

A 20-man killer team was hurriedly raised by the sect and dispatched to go after the rebels.
They were rounded up in the village and put on trial.

Twin blasts kill 10 in Borno

Two suicide explosions along a highway in Borno State killed at least 10 people on Thursday afternoon, state police said, the latest in a string of almost daily attacks by suspected insurgents.

A female suicide bomber killed seven and injured 13 at a village called Malari on the main road from Bama to Konduga while a second suicide bomber killed three in blast along the same road, the state police chief, Aderemi Opadokun, said.

A military source told Reuters that in both cases the suicide bombers targeted crowded areas where locals sell fruit along the highway, which runs southeast of the state capital Maiduguri.

Thousands of people have been killed and about 1.5 million displaced during Boko Haram’s six-year fight to create an Islamic caliphate in the northeast Nigeria.