TWO FORMER LEADERS ARE SPONSORS OF BOKO HARAM - FEMI FANI KAYODE

My worst fears have been confirmed and sadly the Haramites of Boko have struck again. Another terrible bomb blast has taken place in Abuja and many innocent people have been butchered, slaughtered and maimed.

At the last count the number of those killed is no less than 39 despite attempts by the international and local media to play the number of casualties down.

This damning display of primordial and pure savagery by Boko Haram comes barely two weeks after over 100 innocent people, including women and children, were killed by another bomb, on the same spot and by the same people. This is surely too much for us to bear.

Worse still, the country, and indeed the international community, is still grappling with the Chibok affair in which no less than 234 young school girls were abducted from their schools and turned into sex slaves by Boko Haram.

SSS PREVENTS FORMER CBN GOV. FROM TRAVELLING DESPITE COURT RULING - CITES ORDERS FROM THE PRESIDENCY

The State Security Service (SSS) has prevented the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, from traveling abroad. 

Mr. Sanusi was stopped at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, in Kano, on his way to France for an onward journey to Mecca for the lesser Hajj.

The Nigerian secret police, the SSS also seized Mr. Sanusi’s personal passport. Despite Sanusi’s presentation of a court order preventing the government from harassing him and restraining his movement, the SSS agents stuck to their guns. The agents told Sanusi that they were obeying an order from the presidency.

TRAGEDY IN CROSS RIVER AS 4 PERISH TRYING TO RETRIEVE BUCKET FROM A WELL.

One after another, four men entered a water well and drowned while trying to retrieve a bucket when  the string cut letting the bucket to sink to the bottom of the well.

The incident, which happened  along Ogoja Road, Ikom in the Central Senatorial District of Cross River State, attracted  sympathisers  some of them attributing the tragedy to a spiritual force.

The first person to enter the well, John Ushie, according to a resident of the compound  who gave her name as Janet, was preparing to go to  work  that morning and wanted to take his bath. Ushie decided to fetch water from the well but the string with which the bucket  he was drawing the water fell inside the well. When the string gave way, he decided to retrieve it by jumping into the well but ended up gulping  water and drowned.

NO END IN SIGHT FOR ELECTRICITY CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA.

Nigerians complaining over poor electricity supply should brace up for tougher times as the confusion over new ownership of the generating and distributing companies continues. If the agitations of electricity workers are sustained, there would be further disruptions that could lower already poor supplies.

The issues would become more contentious now that the new companies that spawned last year from NEPA, as we commonly knew it, were supposed to have taken over the businesses at the beginning of this month.

A six-month transition contract to assist the new successor companies assess NEPA staff to determine those they would keep has ended. What should be a smooth transition with those not employed disengaged, is brewing a crisis.  The Federal Government reportedly paid N380 billion as the entitlement of NEPA workers.

MY FATHER WANTED ME TO BE A LAWYER/DOCTOR - @TOOLZ

Since popular OAP , Tolu Oniru known simply as Toolz came back from the United Kingdom with a degree  in Business and Mass Communication from the London Metropolitan University to take up a job in the broadcast media, things have been on the up and up for her.

The vivacious beauty who was born in Lagos to the famous Oniru family of Lagos is respected as an on-air-personality for her blend  of natural humour, love of most things, showbiz, passion for music and strong African entertainment knowledge.

In this interview with Esther Onyegbula of Vanguard Newspapers, Toolz lets us into her world.:

It’s been over three years since you moved back to Nigeria from the UK, how has it been? Are there any regrets?

I moved in 2009 actually. It has been one of the toughest but most rewarding journeys I’ve been on (and still on). I try not to focus on regrets. I miss constant electricity, hate Lagos traffic, but I believe I have made an impact here that I wouldn’t have, if I had remained in the UK.

BOKO HARAM MAY STRIKE IN ABUJA AGAIN - RETIRED GENERALS.

There are indications that the Boko Haram attack on the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Thursday might not be last of the deadly onslaughts on the seat of the Federal Government.

Barely three weeks after the  sect carried out a car bomb attack on a motor park in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, killing over 75 persons, the sect attacked the same vicinity again with another car bomb, which claimed about 30 lives on Thursday evening.

Some retired Army generals and former senior security operatives, said Abuja was under siege and urged security agents to rise up to the challenge and stop the sect from overrunning the FCT.

US WARNS OF TERROR ATTACKS ON SHERATON HOTELS IN LAGOS

Whenever the US issues a security statement regarding terror attacks in Nigeria, the information is usually invaluable.

The United States has warned its citizens of planned attacks on Sheraton hotels in Lagos. The country also warned its nationals against going to Yobe, Adamawa and Borno states.

The hotels, owned by Starwood, are the Sheraton Hotel and Towers Lagos and the Four Points By Sheraton Lagos.

The US Consul General in Lagos, in an alert on the website of the US Diplomatic Mission to Nigeria on Friday, warned American residents and those coming into the country to avoid certain places in the country.

US OFFERS TO HELP NIGERIA TO RESCUE ABDUCTED GIRLS. #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS.

The United States said on Thursday it had offered to help Nigeria in its search for around 200 girls abducted by Islamist militants from a school in the northeast of the West African country.

"We have been engaged with the Nigerian government in discussions on what we might do to help support their efforts to find and free these young women," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told a daily briefing. "We will continue to have those discussions and help in any way we can."

Gunmen suspected to be from the radical Islamist movement Boko Haram on April 14 stormed an all-girls secondary school in the village of Chibok, in Borno state, packed the teenagers onto trucks and disappeared into a remote area along the border with Cameroon.

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BOKO HARAM WILLING TO CONSIDER RELEASE OF REMAINING SCHOOL GIRLS AS 3 ARE REPORTED DEAD - CHANNEL4NEWS. #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS

The jihadis who kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls two weeks ago say they are "willing to consider" the release of those who have not already been trafficked abroad and sold into marriage.

The girls' abductors, who have been in regular direct contact with a government intermediary, also report that three of their teenaged captives have died - although they did not state how this happened. Eighteen others, they say, are now sick.

The intermediary told Channel 4 News that the al-Qaeda-affiliated group, Boko Haram, has threatened to kill the remaining hostages if there is any attempt by the Nigerian military to rescue the girls. Meanwhile in the capital Abuja, the Nigerian government is coming under intense public pressure to secure the girls' release.

On Wednesday, the government admitted for the first time that it had officially engaged the services of the negotiator. It declined to reveal his identity. He has told Channel 4 News that he wishes to remain anonymous for reasons of personal security.

#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS - 4 BATTALIONS MOBILISE FOR SAMBISA FOREST.

Seventeen days after 234 students of the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists and the public outcry that have continued to greet the alleged uncoordinated approach of the security agents to rescue them, a major military operation is set to commence as four different battalions, a little more than a Brigade of the Nigerian Army, have been mobilised.

Meanwhile, Borno State Police Command and the Department of State Service, DSS, office in the state, yesterday, released new figures of the missing schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents, saying 276 students, not 234 were initially taken away.

This has contradicted the earlier claims by parents of the affected girls, who said 234 of their daughters were kidnapped when the insurgents attacked the school.

INDIAN MAN SETS HIMSELF ABLAZE THEN EMBRACES POLITICIAN ON TV DEBATE AS BOTH SUFFER SERIOUS BURNS.

A television debate in India ended in horror when a spectator set himself alight before embracing a politician, leaving both men fighting for their lives.

The man, named by police as Durgesh Kumar Singh, emerged from a crowd of about 150 onlookers, doused himself in petrol then grabbed the local leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Kamruzzama Fauji.

Singh sustained burns on 95 per cent of his body which doctors say are likely to be fatal, while Fauji was in critical condition with 75 per cent burns, police said.

THE TRUTH ABOUT #CHIBOK234 - NIRAN ADEDOKUN

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children”

– Nelson Mandela

Over and above every act of irresponsibility to the nation and others in Nigeria, nothing tells of the extent of the erosion of our values like our collective attitude to our children. We are a country that has currently lost every capacity for shock.  Nothing shocks Nigerians again, not even the abduction of over 200 girls from the GovernmentGirls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State and the inability to find them after two weeks.  It is a sad commentary that should make us all bow our heads in penitence. Apparently, we are a country with a dead soul.

(GORY PHOTOS) BOKO HARAM STRIKES ON "MAY DAY" AT NYANYA-ABUJA FOR THE SECOND TIME, LEAVES ABOUT 30 DEAD AND 70 INJURED.

The spate of bloodshed in Nigeria has gone beyond ALARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Barely three weeks after a bomb blast killed over 71 persons in Nyanya, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, another explosion claimed about 30 lives on Thursday evening.

The blast, which was believed to be a suicide attack, occurred around 8:45pm when a bomb-laden car exploded at the Karshi Taxi Park, a few metres from where the April 14, 2014 explosion took place.

Eyewitnesses said that 25 bodies were taken to the Maitama District Hospital, Asokoro, four corpses were dropped at the National Hospital while one body was taken to an unidentified hospital in Nyanya.

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PHOTOS PHOTOS PHOTOS!! #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS - LAGOS PROTEST.

Earlier today, a number of activists including Seun Kuti protested against the continuous silence of Jonathan's government over the missing 234 school girls in Borno.

The protest took off at CMS and ended at Onikan, Lagos.

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BAYERN 0 R.MADRID

Real Madrid simply turned on style at the Allianz Arena on Tuesday night as they romped to a 0-4 win over Bayern Munich to secure their place in the finals of this year’s UEFA Champions League.

Two goals each from Sergio Ramos and Cristiano Ronaldo was more than enough to see Madrid stay in the run for the coveted European football silverware while it meant the end of the road for defending champions Bayern.

Gareth Bale had the first real chance of the game after Manuel Neuer came off his line to head the ball away, but failed to clear the Welshman, but his finish went well high.

How Jonathan, His Government And The Rest of Us Have Failed Abducted Schoolgirls. #BringBackOurGirls.

There is a limit to impunity, beyond which a country can no longer call itself a country with any shred of pride. We passed that mark on that grim Monday when members of the hideous Boko Haram sect stormed Government Secondary School Chibok, Maiduguri, and ran off with over 250 students to the Sambisa forest.

The girls, as Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said at the Book Festival in Port Harcourt Wednesday, are, in all probability, now used as sex slaves.

Perhaps there are worse things than this. Perhaps some depraved minds could yet come up with a monstrosity to top one in which girls preparing for their GCE are seized from their school and dragged through forests to be raped by murderers.  The nightmarish horror of it is just too distasteful to imagine.

(PHOTOS) Aggrieved Chibok Women Storm Abuja, Protest At National Assembly. #BringBackOurGirls

Aggrieved mothers and other indigenes of Chibok, Borno State, today in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, staged a protest to demand the immediate rescue or release of the more than 200 secondary school girls abducted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on April 14.

The protesters, most of them members of the Kibaku Development Association, Chibok, converged at Eagle Square in Nigeria’s capital. From there, they marched to the National Assembly to submit a protest letter. The women were led into the premises of the national legislature by a group of senior female police officers.

The Death Of Col. Kabiru Salisu and Sundry Matters - A.S.M Jimoh

Nigeria has become a place where a day is not complete unless one or more tragic event happens. It is either a very old man or a police officer rapes a minor; a large amount of money is missing from the government coffer; armed robbers freely robbed a bank; a policeman or an NSCD corps helps blow an oil pipeline. It could also be that some students sleeping in their dormitories are killed; some over 200 girls are kidnapped from a school; MEND blows up and shuts down an oil facility; kidnappers take hostages; soldiers or policemen threaten hapless citizens with their weapons; a baby factory is discovered; human remains found in a forest or in buildings and the list goes on. Even if all of these combined happen in a day, the day is still not complete in Nigeria until the deviant Boko Haram or elusive Fulani herdsmen massacre a number of people across the land. This is the Nigeria of today.

The frequency with which these horrific events happen makes us forget in quick succession the terror culture pervading our land. The fact that the shock of the next event always surpasses the previous one is gradually making us to heed President Jonathan’s advice that terror has come to stay and we should live with it. It has numbed our emotion to horror. The regularity of occurrence and the incompetence of a political class aided by the docility of the citizens does not even allow us to probe into the cause of events.