Breaking News: Deadly Blast in Maiduguri kills at least 15

A huge explosion in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday killed at least 15 people, an AFP photographer said, in the latest blast to hit the city repeatedly attacked by Boko Haram Islamists.

After the explosion in a truck carrying charcoal at the city’s biggest roundabout during morning rush hour, victims were taken to the State Specialist Hospital, where the photographer saw the bodies of 15 people killed in the blast, while witnesses said the toll could be much higher.

Nigerian Top Clergys Curse Boko Haram Insurgents

Bishop David Oyedepo and Pastor Tunde Bakare, two of Nigeria’s very popular Christian leaders, have invoked the wrath of God on the Boko Haram terrorist group that has endlessly inflicted pains in the country, killing its citizens and maiming others.

Ohakim Says He Regrets His Action As Governor Of Imo State

The immediate past Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, has pleaded for forgiveness from those he offended during his tenure as governor of the state.
He said he had forgiven those who offended him during the course of his administration.
Ohakim made the appeal yesterday while playing host to the people of Okigwe who called at his country home to urge him to respond to their call for him to complete the tenure of the zone, as his services were still needed in the state.

Boko Haram Is The Armed Wing Of APC- FANI KAYODE

Nigeria’s Former Aviation Minister, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, on Monday, alleged that the dreaded Islamic terrorist sect Boko Haram, which has wrecked havoc in the northern part of the country, is the armed wing of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). He further accused the Party’s leaders of being supportive of the sect’s actions, as it suits their purpose of discrediting the PDP led government.
“If you compare what’s happening in Nigeria to what happened in Ireland some years ago, you had Sinn Fein on the one hand and then you had the IRA on the other. The IRA was the armed wing of Sinn Fein and as far as I’m concerned, Boko Haram could well be described as the armed wing of the opposition, today.”

Nigerian Election, Mockery Of Democracy –TINUBU

A former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has lamented that since the return to democracy in 1999, most of the elections in the country have been a mockery of democracy.
The leader of the All Progressives Congress said this during at the inaugural lecture of the Freedom House Democracy Lecture series in Lagos on Monday.

OKONKWO RESIGNS FROM APC

The immediate-past interim Deputy National Chairman (South) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Annie Okonkwo, has resigned his membership of the party.
Okonkwo, who is also the President of C21, an Igbo socio-political group in a statement he signed yesterday, said he resigned his membership because of the party’s scruffy promises, lack of internal democracy, clannish and sectional disposition of the leadership, adding that APC had no good plans for the South-East people.

Internet Fraudster Disguising As Rev. Father Nabbed In Enugu

A student of Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, Anambra State in sixth year, studying Industrial Physics has been arrested for alleged internet fraud by the operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad,SARS, at a border town, Ugwuoba, Enugu State.

Chibok, Site Of Abduction Of Schoolgirls, Under Attack By Boko Haram

The terrorist Islamist group Boko Haram has launched a massive attack on Kautikari village in the Chibok area of Borno State. A security source as well as two residents of the area told SaharaReporters that the siege continues as at press time.

‘WE WERE DIVIDED INTO THREE CAMPS IN SAMBISA’, SAYS ESCAPEE CHIBOK GIRL

One of the abducted Chibok schoolgirl who managed to escaped from Boko Haram captivity in Sambisa, said their abdcutors splitted them into three groups as soon as they arrived the thick forest.
The girl who spoke to LEADERSHIP Sunday on phone but pleaded not to be named said she was among the eight students that made it back to town.

BONUS WAHALA: SPORTS MINISTER ON HIS WAY TO BRAZIL WITH OVER $3M TO PAY SUPER EAGLES

Nigeria's Super Eagles have finally gotten their wish to be paid their bonuses as the Federal Government has approved and released money which will be paid to the players before the game against France.

The Super Eagles refused to train on Thursday in preparation for their second round clash with the Europeans in the city of Brasilia.