Graphic photos: Troops foil another suicide bomb attack on Bakassi IDP camp in Maiduguri

ays after a female suicide bomber attacked the Bakassi IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno state, a male suicide bomber attempted to attack the same IDP camp today. Thankfully, he wasn't lucky as the troops moved in quickly to neutralize the bomb on him. Read a statement from the Army spokesperson, Col S.K Usman below...

At about 9.00am this morning, troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE deployed behind Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, Damboa road, Maiduguri, on security duty, intercepted and killed a male suicide bomber who had attempted to sneak through the troops’ inner parapet towards the IDP camp.

I made you a billionaire- Obasanjo tells African's richest woman, Folorunsho Alakija

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday told Mrs Folorunsho Alakija who is Africa’s richest woman, that his administration made her among the many billionaire Nigeria presently has. 

The former President who was a guest speaker at the 2016 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum, said this while reacting to claims by Alakija that the Obasanjo administration frustrated her moves to explore the oil sector after getting her oil license from the lae military dictator, Sani Abacha.

According to Alakija who was also a panelist, the Obasanjo administration illegally took an oil block allocated to her company after her family had invested all its savings to strike oil in commercial quantity. Vanguard quotes her as saying

Photos: One of the survivors of 2006 ADC plane crash in Abuja which killed 96 people tells his amazing story

On October 29th, 2006, a Boeing 737 operated by ADC Airlines crashed near the Abuja airport shortly after takeoff, claiming so many lives, including that of the then Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido.

The flight carrying 100 passengers and five crew members departed Lagos to Sokoto with an intermediate stop in Abuja.

Shortly after taking off from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, the plane crashed, broke up and caught fire in a corn field. 96 people died, including a woman working on the field, who was reportedly killed after being struck by debris from the crash.

 The primary cause of the crash was bad weather but the immediate cause was the pilot's refusal to acknowledge warning given to him by the control tower not to take off due to wind shear alert.

Photos: Kenyan man pours hot water on wife's private parts...without any provocation

A 30-year-old mother of two from Kianamu Village in Embu County, Kenya, is nursing serious burns on her thighs and private parts after her husband poured hot water on her.

Catherine Wakere was taken to Siakago Level Four Hospital last Wednesday, two weeks after the attack. Her upper right thigh and her private parts had started developing infections when she was taken to the hospital.

 

According to the hospital’s Nursing Officer Secinta Nyaga, the woman was only taken to hospital when a neighbour learnt of the cruel assault. Ms Wakere said her husband, Charles Njiru, 36, had without any provocation, poured boiling water on her. Around 11am on that fateful day, she was heating water for him when he suddenly grabbed a bowl, scooped the water and threw it on her thighs and private parts.

"He just scooped water that was boiling and splashed it on my thighs. He had aimed at my private parts, which were partly scalded," she said.

Photos: 6 children of same parents poisoned to death in Anambra state set to be buried next week

Six siblings, who were poisoned to death in Ekwulumili, Nnewi South LGA of Anambra State are set to be laid to rest on Saturday, November 5th, 2016.

The children died after consuming food poisoned by unknown person on July 16, 2016. The parents are believed to have attempted suicide following the tragic death of their children. See previous post here

Posting their obituary announcement on Facebook, Ewenike Ogechukwu wrote:

"Very painful. What a remarkable sorrowful event? A question were asked " what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and loose the kingdom of the life maker our God? "

what a deep scar to the living future hope of the town? It's time we battle, fight and overcome atrocities and abomination in our various towns.

Say "NO" to outrage, disgrace, scandal, eyesore, atrocity, horror, hate, anathema, aversion, curse, detestation, evil, nuisance, plague, shame, torment, hatred, dislike, repugnance, loathing, revulsion, abhorrence, disgust , wrongdoing, crime, offense.

So my GoOd fellow Youths; If the painful death of this SIX CHILDREN of the same womb touches you, try and attend their burial which have been announced to be On Saturday 5th November, 2016. May their innocence souls be acceptable in the bosom of Almighty, Amen"

Ugandan man wants the government to authorize his locally made 'missile' test

A 28-year old man in Hoima District, Uganda, Anatoli Kiiza, has asked the government to legally authorize him to test his locally made weapons. Kiiza states that he has manufactured and upgraded a missile which he can test if the government permits him to do so.

He claims to have 'researched on the internet' how missiles are made in countries like USA,China and North Korea. “I have manufactured and upgraded a missile. I can also manufacture a rocket launcher,” he said.

Kiiza previously made attempts to fabricate a machine similar to a missile in June 2012 but Police arrested him. After undergoing interrogation, he was released without being prosecuted in the courts of law. According to him, his love for weapons manufacturing can be traced in his childhood.

UN negotiates release of 876 children held by Nigerian army for possible Boko Haram ties

The United Nations has negotiated the release of nearly 900 children detained by Nigeria's army and security forces. According to Unicef's regional director for Western and Central Africa, Manuel Fontaine, who disclosed this after visiting Borno State, the 876 children had been held in the barracks in Maiduguri.

 

It was not immediately clear how long they had been held, but the army routinely detains civilians who have been living in areas that had been ruled by the insurgents on suspicion that they too might be linked to militant activities. (Fontaine is pictured above with displaced girls in Maiduguri, many of them are in school for the first time)

However, rights groups say there is no proper legal process for such civilians, including the children, since they do not get formally charged and some end up in so-called rehabilitation centres, which the groups say are like prisons. The United Nations says children should not be detained.