Sunday, 27 July 2014

Photo: Police prevents another bomb blast in Kano

The Police in Kano state this morning July 27th
averted what could have been another fatal bomb
blast in the ancient city. Police operatives averted
the calamity after discovering a Peugeot 406 car
with registration number AA 513 ZAK, loaded with
explosives at the mosque of Sheikh Isyaku Rabiu
at Goron Dutse. Bomb experts neutralized the
explosives immediately and no casualty was
recorded.

The Kano state commissioner of police, Mr.
Aderenle Shinaba has confirmed the reports.

BOKO HARAM ABDUCTS THE WIFE OF CAMERON'S VICE PRIME MINISTER.

The wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister,
Amadou Ali, was abducted today July 27th
after men of the Boko Haram sect stormed her
home in the northern town of Kolofata, Cameroon's
information minister and government spokesman
revealed.

Mrs Ali was kidnapped alongside her domestic
staff and one other person. The insurgents also
killed 3 people in the attack on Kolofata, a town in
Cameroon's Far North Region near Nigeria
Colonel Felix Nji Formekong, the second
commander of Cameroon's third inter-army
military region (RMIA3) based in the regional
headquarters of Maroua, said the sect members
are believed to still be in the town fiercely
engaging military officers

"The situation is very critical here now, and
as I am talking to you the Boko Haram
elements are still in Kolofata town in a clash
with our soldiers. Some of them have already
taken away the wife of Vice Prime Minister
Ahmadou Ali and her house help while the
bodyguards of the Vice Prime Minister have
succeeded in taking him out of the town to
Mora," Formekong said, adding that there
could be more casualties" he spoke

Saturday, 26 July 2014

Photos: Human rights lawyer, Bamidele Aturu, laid to rest in state, in his home town.

Photos: Human rights lawyer,
Bamidele Aturu, laid to rest
Prominent civil rights attorney, Bamidele Aturu,
who died on July 9th has been laid to rest. He
was buried today July 25th in his home
of Ogbagi Akoko, Ondo State which is in Nigeria. See more pics
after the cut.

Sheikh's son, 5 others killed as police and protesters incidence in Zaria.


About 5 people, including the son of popular
Zaria based Sheikh, Ibraheem El Zakzaky, were
killed today after a clash between Nigerian
soldiers and Shiite Muslims in Zaria, Kaduna
State.
The Shi'a Muslim group had gathered in the PZ
area of the town for their annual Ramadan ritual
called Muzahara, where thousands of Muslim
faithful march around the city dressed in black
to protest a cause. They dedicated their march
today to the conflict between Israel and
Palestine.
A source said the group were confronted by
soldiers as they gathered after Friday prayers,
chanting Islamic songs, carrying placards and
condemning Israel's invasion of Gaza. The
soldiers' mission was to disperse the crowd but
one thing led to another and violence erupted.
Shots were fired and at least 6 people were
killed, including the son of the leader of the
Islamic group (the son pictured above).

Monday, 21 July 2014

LECTURER commits SUICIDE.

A lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of
Nigeria Nsukka, Dr Bede Opata has reportedly
committed suicide over a yet-to-be ascertained
reason, Thisday reports.
Sources within the university say the 38 year old
law lecturer killed himself in his apartment within
the town on Saturday July 19th but his body was
only discovered on Sunday July 20th.
The lecturer who holds a doctorate degree in Law,
hailed from Nsukka, Enugu state and was the son
of a former Commissioner in the old Anambra
state, Chief Cletus Opata.

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