Bomb Blast in Adamawa kills over 40 football fans

A bomb blast in Mubi ,Adamawa last night has killed about 40.A Police officer told AFP

“There has been a bomb explosion at a football field this evening and so far more than 40 people have been killed,” 

The policeman said the bomb exploded at roughly 6:30 pm at the pitch in Mubi’s Kaban area and targeted fans who were trying to leave the field after watching a local club match.
However, Sahara reporters put the dead at 60 and report that, the bomb explosion was in a Brothel where people drink and watch football matches..

Adamawa is one of three states in the north which has been under a state of emergency for more than a year, and Mubi is the same town where scores of students were killed in their dorms in a gruesome October 2012 massacre at a post-secondary technical college.

Abducted Chibok Girl With Broken Wrist, Begs Jonathan To Facilitate Their Release

President Goodluck Jonathan has reportedly seen a new video released by Boko Haram, where the abducted school girls of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, spoke about their ordeal in the hands of the insurgents for the first time and pleaded with him to secure their release.
The girls were reportedly ill and are in camps located in Chad, Niger and Cameroon, with one of them nursing a broken wrist.
The footage, not released publicly but seen by the London-based online newspaper The Mail on Sunday was taken in a jungle clearing a month after their abduction.
In the video, eight girls, dressed in their school uniforms of pale blue gingham, plead for release as they stand in front of a camera.
The newspaper said they were clearly scared, upset and trying to be brave as they walked in turn to a spot in front of a white sheet fixed to a frame between trees.
According to the publication, four of the girls could be heard in Hausa Language, stating that they were taken by force and that they were hungry.
One of them aged about 18 said tearfully, “My family will be so worried.”
Another, speaking softly, said, “I never expected to suffer like this in my life.’ A third said, ‘They have taken us away by force” and the fourth complained that, “We are not getting enough food.”
The video, allegedly taken by an intermediary on May 19, said the newspaper, was intended to serve as ‘proof of life’ for the girls and to Jonathan to accede to the terrorists’ demands.
Two earlier videos showed the girls seated on the ground, dressed in hijabs, reciting the Koran.
In the videos, Boko Haram Leader, Abubakar Shekau, declared he would sell the girls into slavery or marry them off to their kidnappers if members of the sect in detention were not released.
Pressure from the international community and criticism of the Jonathan’s slow response to the kidnapping had led to a series of contradictory pronouncements from his government.
Some ministers have declared that government would not negotiate with Boko Haram or consider the release of prisoners, while official spokesmen said “the window is always open for dialogue.”
Last week, Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh said the government knew the location of the girls and claimed that police and military had been ‘following them’ since the abduction. He refused to divulge details, saying it would put the girls in further danger.

True story behind 80 year old woman accused of being a Flying Witch in Ajegunle

Yesterday, i published a post about an 80 year old woman accused of being a flying witch bird.She was saved from lynching by the police.(Here).Her sons have surfaced and she is not a witch but got missing.She wandered off from their Iju Ishaga home some days ago and her family had been looking for her.They were shocked to see her in the newspapers..
A policeman told Punch

“This morning two men came to the command claiming that they were the sons of the woman. The men said their mother was not a witch and were very angry with the manner the rumour was spreading. They said they were shocked that youths could attack an old woman in her 80s and they were even asking for justice because the woman sustained bruises on her head.”

Police PRO Ngozi Braide said ...

Yes she has been released to her son. The family said due to her old age, she was very ill and was brought from Ibadan to Lagos to stay with one of her sons. The woman’s daughter-in-law said she went to buy drugs for her nearby, but by the time she returned home, the woman had left the house.”

Did Tonto Dikeh Throw Shade at Adaeze Yobo Over Alleged Cheating Drama?

 

Oh well!! It seems controversial Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh had something to say about the whole Adaeze Yobo and her husband's alleged mistress' faceoff  on Instagram today. While she did not make any direct refernce to her, it is too much of a coecidence that she retweeted a post about couples pretending to be lovey dovey in public barely a few hours after the ugly drama went down.

I have only one question though, Joseph Yobo has never been married before , so whose home did Adaeze break?

Funeral Plans For Nollywood Producer, Amaka Igwe

Nollywood producer and filmmaker, Amaka Igwe, will be buried on Friday, June 13th 2014 at Ndiuche, Arondizuogu in Imo State, her marital home. Amaka passed away on the 28th of April 2014. She is survived by her husband and 3 children.

Various events have been lined up before the burial proper. They include; A tribute evening and Lagos Service of Songs at Haven Gardens G.R.A Ikeja on the 9th of June, and Enugu Service of Songs at Okpara Square, Enugu on the 12th of June, 2014.
May her soul rest in peace.

BOKO HARAM SET TO BE SANCTIONED BY UN

A decision will be taken Thursday.

The Nigerian government has formally asked the United Nations Security Council to blacklist the extremist group, Boko Haram.
Nigeria urged the Security Council al Qaeda sanctions committee to recognize the group as a terrorist organization, indicating a further raise in the government’s effort to root the group.
The move comes days after President Goodluck Jonathan asked for wider international sanctions against the group.

At the Paris security summit Saturday, Mr. Jonathan called for efforts to outlaw the group that is responsible for thousands of deaths since 2009.

“At the international level, we should take concrete steps to designate the Al Qaeda in West Africa, alias Boko Haram, as a Terrorist Organisation on the basis of the Proscription Order that my government has already imposed on the organisation,” the president said.
“We should also accelerate the implementation of other international sanctions, particularly under the auspices of the United Nations, on Boko Haram, Ansaru and their principal leaders.”
The Nigerian government has filed the application for the U.N. to outlaw the group, news Reuters agency quoted a diplomatic source as saying Tuesday.

Such sanctions will, amongst other measures, require all countries under the U.N. charter to freeze
financial assets and economic resources of Boko Haram members and its leaders.
The countries will also be required to impose travel ban and an arms embargo on the group, its members and sponsors.
The Nigerian government had largely refused to seek broad international assistance against the group until the abduction of more than 250 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State.
The kidnapping sparked global outrage. The United States, United Kingdom, France and Israel have sent specialist teams to Nigeria to help rescue the girls. They are also providing intelligence and surveillance.
Reuters’ report says if there is no objection by the 15-member council committee, which operates by consensus, Boko Haram will be sanctioned at 7 p.m. Thursday

PICTURES: 7 CARS INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT TODAY IN GWARINPA ABUJA

An accident involving 7 vehicles occurred about 9:30 am this morning 22/5/2014 along the gwarinpa axis of Abuja.

According to eyewitness the accident was caused by dangerous over-taking, the first vehicle tried overtaking without having a clear view, other vehicles folloWed in anticipation but the driver of the first car lost control on seeing an on-coming vehicle, other vehicle that followed struggled to scamper to safety but couldn’t,  resulting to the accident.

No life was lost but people involved sustained varying degree of injury as at time of this report.