BUHARI ESCAPES DEATH IN KADUNA AS TWIN BLAST KILLS OVER 70 PEOPLE.

Presidential aspirant and former Military Head, General Buhari narrowly escaped death in Kaduna today when a suicide bomber attacked his convoy.

According to punch, there was pandemonium in Kaduna State on Wednesday as twin bomb blasts rocked the city, killing more than 70 persons.

A former Head of State and a chief of the All Progressives Congress, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), narrowly escaped the second blast.

The blast occurred at two different parts of the state. One at the Alkali/Isa Kaita road in the highbrow area of the state while the second one occurred near the Kawo bridge, close the 1. Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army, Kaduna State.

(PHOTOS) PRESIDENT JONATHAN FINALLY MEETS WITH PARENTS OF THE ABDUCTED CHIBOK GIRLS. #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS.

As earlier reported, President Jonathan finally met with the parents of the abducted Chibok girls and those who managed to escape as well.

The Media was not allowed to cover proceedings once the meeting started as they were sent out of the meeting hall.

See more pictures after the cut.........

THE BATTLE LINE HAVE JUST BEEN DRAWN BETWEEN THE OKOYE BROTHERS, PETER & JUDE!!!!!

All is still not well at the camp of the successful music empire of the Okoye's, Peter, Paul and their elder brother Jude.

Sometimes last year, the eldest of the trio, Jude, refused to attend Peter's wedding to his then Babymama, Lola Omotayo. He acted rather childishly by posting pictures of himself working in the studio while his blood brother was getting married. 

Rumours has it that members of the Okoye family did not support the union for reasons best known to them. Lola, who is older than her hubby is a beautiful and independent woman but Oga Jude must definitely have personal reasons why he is not keen about her.

(PHOTOS) 19-YR-OLD IHEOMA NNADI IS THE NEWLY CROWNED "MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN NIGERIA".

A 19-Yr-Old model, Iheoma Nnadi representing Akwa-Ibom state emerged as the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria in 2014. See more photos after the cut.........

She beat second runner-up Miss Edo to the crown. Miss Kwara finished in third place, while Miss Osun finished fourth.

She walks home with N3 million cash prize and a brand new car. Anna Banner is the outgoing Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria. 

GUNMEN INVADE JEREMIAH USENI'S HOUSE.....

Gunmen suspected to be hired assassins, in the early hours of Thursday, stormed the home of Jeremiah Useni, a former Abuja minister.

Mr. Useni was, however, not at his Langtang north Local Government Area, Plateau State home, when the gunmen came. According to witnesses, the suspects shot at the building about 48 times.

Mr. Useni, a member of the on-going National Conference, in a telephone interview with journalists on Thursday evening, confirmed the incident. The retired general said no lives were lost. “I was not there myself, but I was told of the incident. No one was killed, but I will later today (Thursday) visit the scene to see things for myself,” he said.

PARENTS OF SOME CHIBOK GIRLS SET TO MEET PRESIDENT JONATHAN NEXT TUESDAY. #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS.

Parents of some of the abducted girls as well as  escaped Chibok girls who earlier turned down an opportunity to meet President Goodluck Jonathan are now ready to meet with the president after they received a formal invitation from the Nigerian presidency.

According to National Chairman of the community, Dr Pogu Bitrus, a letter requesting a meeting with the president next Tuesday was received on Wednesday.

The community meeting is coming several some three months after Islamist militant group Boko Haram kidnapped over 250 girls during their finals at a high school in Chibok, Borno state.

NIGERIA MEETS FIFA'S CONDITION TO LIFT BAN.

Nigeria have met Fifa’s conditions to lift its ban on the country after a regional high court quashed an order restraining the board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) from office.

Troubled Nigeria Football Federation [NFF] president, Aminu Maigari has been reinstated in office after a court order was vacated on Wednesday.

Fifa punished Nigeria for government interference after the NFF board was replaced by a sole administrator.

A 17 July deadline was given to reverse the decision, despite the government’s claim it was a matter for the courts.

LAGOS STATE APPROVES 10 DAYS PATERNITY LEAVE FOR MALE CIVIL SERVANTS.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has approved 10 days paternity leave for any male civil servant in the state whose wife delivers a new baby. The measure is to afford them the opportunity of attending to developmental needs of the child.

Fashola also jerked up the maternity leave from three months to six, to allow the nursing mother give their child exclusive breastfeeding for the period.

Head of Service, HOS, Mrs. Oluseyi William, who disclosed this yesterday, at a joint briefing with the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Lateef Ibirogba and Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Health, Dr. Yewande Adeshina, in Ikeja, said the new approved policy took immediate effect.

NASARAWA LAWMAKERS SET TO IMPEACH GOV. AL MAKURA, LEVELS 16 OFFENCES AGAINST HIM.

Nasarawa State lawmakers on Thursday proceeded with their moves to remove the state governor, Tanko Al-Makura, by levelling against him 16 charges bordering on alleged official gross misconduct.

The charges by the state House of Assembly include missing local government joint account funds between June 2011 and April 2012; and from January to July, 2013.

The impeachment notice said the alleged offences amounted to gross violation of section 162 (7 and 8) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended. The impeachment notice was signed by 20 out of the 24 members of the assembly.

EGYPT GIVES NINE MEN JAIL TERMS RANGING FROM 20YRS - LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR ASSAULTING WOMEN!!!!

An Egyptian court has given nine men sentences ranging from 20 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting women near Cairo's Tahrir Square, according to state run newspaper al-Ahram.

The sentences handed down Wednesday were the harshest seen since the government criminalized sexual harassment last month, amid criticism over the widespread abuse of women in the country.

The men were found guilty of being involved in four different attacks, three of them taking place during the inauguration celebrations for newly elected President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in June.

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MALAYSIAN AIRLINES PLANE WITH 295 PEOPLE ON BOARD SHOT DOWN IN UKRAINE!!!!

A Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, crashed Thursday in eastern Ukraine.

Malaysia Airlines confirmed that it lost contact with Flight 17 and that the plane's last known position was over Ukrainian airspace, the airline said on Twitter.

The aircraft was "shot down" over Ukraine by "terrorists" operating a Buk surface-to-air missile system, according to the Facebook page of Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. There were 280 passengers killed as well as 15 crew members, Gerashchenko's post reads.

JONATHAN SEEKS $1BN ONLY TO FIGHT BOKO HARAM!!!

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday forwarded a letter to the National Assembly, asking the lawmakers to urgently approve a $1bn external loan for the Federal Government to confront the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

The letter dated July 15, 2014, was read on the floor of the Senate and that of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, by the Senate President David Mark and Speaker Aminu Tambuwal respectively.

In the letter, Jonathan explained that the external loan was urgently needed to upgrade the equipment, training and logistics of the Armed Forces and security services in order to enable them to confront the insurgents more forcefully.

NYAKO'S IMPEACHMENT - A MESSY STORY!!!!!

The removal of Admiral Murtala Nyako as governor of Adamawa State was a prediction long foretold. But why he walked straight into the booby trap is a wonder

The atmosphere in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, hours after Admiral Murtala Nyako was removed as governor of the state on Tuesday was largely serene. Citizens went about their businesses largely unconcerned with the political asphyxiation of the state’s former number one citizen.

The indifference was largely reflective of the feeling of detachment with which the former governor related with a large section of the citizenry. Nyako in the estimation of some was largely devoted to himself and his family with the appointment of friends and family in strategic positions in government.

DRUNK SECURITY GUARD KILLS BABCOCK STUDENT IN HOTEL.

A security guard, Azeez Ibrahim, has shot dead a female undergraduate of Babcock University, Busayo Ogunkoya, during a birthday party in a hotel in Ikorodu, Lagos State.

Punch Metro learnt that 22-year-old Ogunkoya was celebrating with her friends on Saturday evening, July 5, 2014, at Mambillah Hotel, when the guard fired a shot that killed her.

Our correspondent learnt that immediately the incident happened, there was confusion as the people fled the hotel. A source said Ibrahim was drunk. He said, “The incident happened on Saturday night when Busayo and her friends were having a party. “She did not know the person celebrating, but she was invited to the party by her boyfriend.

JONATHAN MUST STOP THE MISUSE OF MILITARY.

THRUST suddenly into national and international spotlight, Nigeria’s Armed Forces are looking rather flat-footed. While struggling to contain the terrorist insurgency in the toxic North-East zone and engaged in operations in most of the states, its personnel are unwisely being deployed for some purely political and civil matters by a short-sighted Presidency. It is a dangerous game that could well imperil the Fourth Republic.

President Goodluck Jonathan and his advisers are too fixated on politics to appreciate the dangers of immersing the military in partisan politics. No wonder that late last month, soldiers claiming to be acting on “orders from above” stopped the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, as he arrived for a function in Kaduna and insisted on searching his car despite protestations by the security aides of the country’s Number 4 citizen. Also in June, soldiers deployed in support of the massive security provided for the Ekiti State governorship election were reported to have stopped two state governors, Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) from attending a rally in Ado-Ekiti, two days before the poll.

In Lagos State, soldiers allegedly acting at the behest of the Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, invaded a building site of the state government, chased away the workers and occupied the premises. Ownership of the site is being disputed by the federal and state governments. When did armed soldiers become the arbiters in civil disputes between two tiers of government?

(PHOTOS) POLICE ARREST BOKO HARAM'S CHIEF BUTCHER!!!!!!!

Following the massive onslaught by Security Forces on the activities of the insurgent group, Boko Haram, at the Balmo Forest Bauchi State, Police detectives attached to Bauchi State Police Command on Saturday, 12/7/2014 about 2pm have arrested one Mohammed Zakari, a male of 30 years old and senior member of the Boko Haram terrorists’ organization along Darazo-Basrika Road while fleeing from the intensive counter insurgency operations going on around the Balmo Forest. 

The suspect, who hails from Kaigamari Village, Daptchari in Darazo Local Government Area, Bauchi State is the self-styled “chief butcher” of the insurgent group at the Balmo Forest Camp and is linked with the recent slaughter of seven (7) people, including women and children. Findings as well as disclosures from the suspect will assist the Law enforcement agencies in tracking down some other members of the terror cell.

INDIA ANNOUNCES NEW VISA MEASURE FOR NIGERIANS

The new Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ghanashyam Rangaiah, on Tuesday, announced new measures that would enable Nigerians obtain visas to India with ease.

Mr. Rangaiah told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the commission was working hard at making Nigerians to personally visit its website to make their applications for visa.

He, therefore, urged Nigerians to desist from patronising agents and visa racketeers.

“We have decided that Nigerians wishing to visit India for any purpose should personally visit our website to make their applications.

APC ISSUES ALERT ON PLANS BY OPPOSITION TO ASSASINATE GOV. AREGBESOLA

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Osun State chapter, yesterday said it had received a red alert that a leading opposition party contracted foreign snipers to assassinate Governor Rauf Aregbesola during his campaign trail.

“The masterminds behind this plot are the party’s chieftains, from a S-West state and the opposition party”s candidate for the August 9 election in Osun.”

According to APC, sources from within the opposition party informed the APC that “there is great consternation within the party that for as long as Aregbesola is present and visible, the election cannot be rigged, so their last option to ‘win’, according to sources, is to take out completely the governor, and they needed the best professional killers in the world, this is why they have contracted the foreign firm.

“It is not clear if Abuja is involved in the plot, but sources say that security infrastructure in the country may not be unconnected,” APC said.

The APC recalled that it had alerted Nigerians and the international community of the party’s plans to militarise the state one week to the election and terrorise APC leadership and assassinate some of them.

Vanguard.

PDP FINALLY WRESTLES ADAMAWA STATE FROM APC.

Tuesday’s removal of the former Governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako (retd.), from office by the Ahmadu Fintiri-led state House of Assembly, did not come as a surprise to those familiar with recent happenings in the state. 

Nyako’s removal makes it the sixth time a governor has been impeached in the country since 1999. Before now, five governors namely: Joshua Dariye (Plateau), Rashidi Ladoja (Oyo), DSP Alamieyeseigha (Bayelsa), Ayo Fayose (Ekiti) and Peter Obi (Anambra) were shown the door.

However, the Supreme Court overruled the lawmakers in Oyo, Plateau and Anambra for not following due process.