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                         Two explosions have ripped through the city of Kaduna killing at least 40 people, the Police says. The first explosion was said to have targeted Islamic cleric, Dahiru Bauchi while the second one targeted senior opposition leader, Muhammadu Buhari. The witness, Hassan Mohammed, told newsmen that the bomb, concealed in a red Volkswagen golf car parked by the road side, was detonated as the cleric’s convoy drove past. The sheikh escaped unhurt, the witness said. “As I speak to you now, I can see many bodies on the ground,” Mr. Mohammed said. The police could not be immediately reached but the witness said security and emergency officials have arrived at the scene evacuating the victims of the blast. The blast is the second targeting Mr. Bauchi in Kaduna State. In June, an explosion occurred near his house, injuring one person. The Sheikh is a known critic of the extremist Boko Haram sect. It is however not clear whether the group is responsible for the a

                              The Abia State Police Command has freed two suspects, Chibuike Anibuife , 25, and Jonathan Nwogu, 45, reportedly caught at Osisioma Junction, Aba, with a corpse of a three- year-old girl. According to the Police Public Relations Officer, Geoffrey Ogbonna, of the Command’s headquarters in Umuahia that the suspects had been thoroughly investigated and found to be innocent. Ogbonna said the corpse was genuinely handed over to them by the father of the deceased for burial. Vanguard reported last week on how the suspects were apprehended when they were trying to bury the corpse in an abandoned pit in Osisioma, near Aba. The middle-aged suspects are Jonathan Nwogu from Mgboko Umuola in Obingwa Local Government Area of the state and Chibuike Anubuife from Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State. The state’s Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Mr. Andy Dateer, had last week paraded the suspects, saying his men on patrol rescued

                         ONE hundred days after the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, by Boko Haram terrorists, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, met with parents of the girls. At the closed-door meeting were 53 of the girls, who had earlier escaped from their abductors as well as representatives of Chibok community and other stakeholders. The meeting which started at about 11 o’clock ended at about 2:15 pm. Also at the meeting were Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State; Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State and the Senate President, David Mark.

                         The first bodies of those killed in the MH17 massacre have left Ukraine on a cargo plane that will transport them to the Netherlands. The remains of around 200 international victims of the Malaysia Airlines tragedy have already been moved by train from the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to government-controlled Kharkiv, and will now be flown to Eindhoven to carry out an identification process which could take months. There is concern however, that as many as 95 victims - one third of the total number of passengers on board MH17 - may still be missing after Dutch officials counted only 200 bodies on the morgue train on which rebels claim they placed 282 corpses and 87 body parts from a further 16 people. The king and queen of the Netherlands will lead mourners as the first victims of the disaster are repatriated from the Ukraine later today. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima will be in Eindhoven with relatives of the 298 people - inclu

Nollywood bad boy Prince Eke, Muma Gee’s husband came online to say some people especially one guy called Steve, has been disturbing him to be his partner and he is not in any way interested. Lolz......Prince i love your courage, Keep avoiding him.  

                                           Hon. Abdullateef Abdulkareem, a former member of Lagos House of Assembly and a former Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola on Political and Legislative Powers, must be a devout Muslim, who believes in fulfilling all the tenets of the religion to its letters. Hon. Abdulkareem, who is a lawyer and the Chief Imam of the Lagos House of Assembly since 2003, married his third wife on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 and he is planning to marry the fourth on Tuesday, October 28, 2014. According to report his third and fourth wives are friends. His third wife, Hadizat, is a 23 year-old corper doing her primary assignment with Lagos House of Assembly. She graduated from Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Continue...

                          Former minister of Education and convener / leader of #BringBackOurGirls campaign, Obiageli Ezekwesili has shared her own side of story about her Monday encounter with the State Security Service (SSS) operatives at the Abuja International Airport. Continue...

                        The National Chairman, Chibok community, Pogu Bitrus, has said that four more parents of the abducted girls of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State have died thus raising the number to 11.An online newspaper, The Cable quoted Bitrus as saying that seven of the parents of the girls abducted by members of the Boko Haram sect on April 14 from their hostel at Government Secondary School, Chibok, died of heart attack and frustration.Bitrus was said to have made this disclosure on July 5, this year. But speaking with the The Cable on Tuesday, Bitrus added that four more of the parents would not see their daughters again as they have lost their lives to the trauma visited on them by their children’s abduction. “One father of two of the girls kidnapped just went into a kind of a coma and kept repeating the names of his daughters until life left him,” Bitrus said on Tuesday.