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Two female suicide bombers killed three civilians and wounded eight in a suspected Boko Haram attack in northeast Nigeria, emergency services said Wednesday.

Graphic content / Red Cross officials attend to victims of a triple suicide bombing, which occured outside a hall in Konduga, 38 kilometres (24 miles) from the Borno state capital Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, on June 17, 2019.

Thirty people were killed late on June 16 in a triple suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria, emergency services reported, in an attack bearing the hallmarks of the Boko Haram jihadist group.

Three bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall in Konduga, 38 kilometres (24 miles) from the Borno state capital Maiduguri, where football fans were watching a match on TV.

The twin blasts tore through a crowd late Tuesday in the town of Mafa, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from regional capital Maiduguri.

The female bombers killed three people and wounded eight others,” Bello Danbatta, head of security for the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) in Borno state, told AFP.

The assailants entered the town among a group of local women who had gone to fetch firewood for cooking, Danbatta said.

The same toll, said the bombers waited until around 8:30pm (1930 GMT) before launching their attack.

Boko Haram has been waging a 10-year insurgency in northeast Nigeria that has seen it repeatedly use female suicide bombers to attack soft targets such as mosques, markets and bus stations. Many of the bombers are young women and girls.

The last suicide attack was in June when a triple bombing outside a hall where football fans were watching a match killed at least 30 people.

Also on Tuesday, fighters burnt 11 houses and looted food in an attack on the village of Kotori, 12 kilometres (eight miles) outside Maiduguri, Danbatta said, adding that no one was hurt in that incident.

Boko Haram’s decade-long campaign of violence has left some 27,000 people dead, displaced over two million across the region and spilt over into neighbouring countries.

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The Kaduna State Police Command on Wednesday paraded 79 criminals, including suspected kidnappers, armed robbers and other criminal suspects at Rijana, along Kaduna-Abuja highway.

Some of the paraded suspects by the Kaduna Police Command Among the suspects was a dismissed soldier who was thrown out of the army some time ago for shooting his commander.

The state Commissioner of Police, Ali Aji Janga, who paraded the suspects before Wednesday morning revealed that during the operations that led to the arrest of the criminals, 35 guns and 439 cattle were recovered from the suspects.

The police commissioner said: “the gallant determination of our crack operatives such as SARS, AKU, IRT, and other units have again recorded some successes with the apprehension of 79 suspects for various crimes which includes.

Criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, kidnapping, cattle rustling, culpable homicide, shop breaking and theft, impersonation and receiving stolen property.

Pursuant to our collective resolve, high sense of commitment and relentless determination, the Command has sustained a serious manhunt on bandits and other perpetrators of crime within Kaduna with a view to arresting and bringing them to book.

I am also glad to inform the general public that we are currently reviewing our structural deployment along Kaduna-Abuja Road, Kaduna-Zaria Road and Kaduna-Birnin Gwari Road with a view to make the highways more safer for commuters while the efforts to rid the Command off banditry and other violent crimes continue,” he said.

Giving a breakdown of the items recovered from the suspected criminals, the Police said nine Ak47 Rifles, one unserviceable LAR Rifle and 11 Locally Made Rifles and Pistols. Others were one pump action, three dane guns, 954 rounds of live ammunition of different calibre and 24 live cartridges, one knife, one hacksaw, the sum N30,000, two handsets, one face mask, two pair of canvass, four and half (41/2) bundle of brocade (Shadda) materials and 11 caps.

We also recovered one KIA Serato Motor Vehicle with Reg. No TT 547 AA Black in colour, one Toyota Corolla S Ash in colour with Reg. No. GWA 872 FM, one unregistered Mercedes Benz C350 Ash in colour. “439 cattles, 18 sheep, eight donkeys, one tricycle with Reg. No MKA 248 WY, six motorcycles, eight plasma television, one HP laptop, one tiger generator and four cutlasses were also recovered.

I am calling on the good people of Kaduna State to feel free and go about their normal businesses as the Command has appreciably reduced the rate of crime within the state. “I remain grateful to the media for being our window and supportive in the fight against criminality in State,” he said.

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English Premier League (EPL) champions Manchester City have signed 18-year-old winger, Felix Correia from Sporting Lisbon, the Portuguese club said on Wednesday.

Financial details of the deal were not disclosed but British media reported the transfer fee was in the region of 3.2 million pounds (3.89 million dollars).

This is however a fee which could rise a further 3.2 million pounds in add-ons.

Sporting Clube de Portugal informs that it has reached an agreement with Manchester City for the transfer of player Felix Correia,” the club said.

Correia is yet to make a senior international appearance for Portugal but he has played numerous times for their youth teams.

The player has in the process grabbed two goals and two assists with the Under-19 team.

He was an integral part of the Portuguese team at the Under-19 European Championship last month.

Correia played all five matches and helped his side reach the final where they were beaten by Iberian neighbours Spain.

Defending champions Manchester City start their league title defence with a trip to West Ham United on Saturday.

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The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has predicted thunderstorms over most parts of the Northern and Central States with chances of rain over Inlands and Coasts on Wednesday.

NiMet’s weather output on Tuesday in Abuja predicted thunderstorms over the Northern States throughout the forecast period with high chances over Sokoto and Yelwa.

The agency envisaged day and night temperatures of the region to be 28 to 33 degree Celsius and 21 to 23 degree Celsius espectively.

NiMet stated: “For Central States, moderate rains are expected in the morning, progressing into the day; thunderstorms and rains are likely with day and night temperatures of 24 to30 degree Celsius and 17 to 23 degree Celsius.

For Southern States, there are prospects of rains over the entire region throughout the forecast period with day and night temperature of 26 to 29 degree Celsius and 20 to 23 degree Celsius respectively.



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There is really no limit to the brutality of Boko Haram insurgents as some women have found out in Kalagari community, a border village in northern Cameroon near Nigeria.

In a recent dawn attack, Boko Haram gunmen sliced off the ears of women, who apparently had been helping by passing information to the Cameroonian and Multinational Joint Task Force, set up to degrade the insurgency.

The women were part of a vigilante group set up by the community, but when the Boko Haram militia came, they outnumbered the local forces and dealt with their women.

Camerooninfo.net that reported the latest brutality by the insurgents said they have stepped up their attacks in Cameroon in recent times. On June 9, 16 Cameroon soldiers were killed in an attack in the own of Darak, Logone and Chari district.

The attack was carried out by an estimated 300 Boko Haram fighters. Eight civilians were also wounded in the attack.

President Paul Biya has come under criticism, for keeping mute over the attacks on Kalagari and Darak.

Biya however sent a condolence message to his Nigerian counterpart, President Muhammadu Buhari over the attack last weekend in Nganzai district of Borno, in which at least 70 people reportedly died, including over 23 mourners.



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Deputy President Ovie Omo-Agege has urged lubricate companies in commission in the Niger Delta locality to rearrange their head office to the region.

Mr Yomi Odunuga, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said that Omo-Agege made the call in his hometown, Orogun in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta.

Omo-Agege said that there was need for oil companies that left the region to return, given the prevailing peace and accelerating development in the region.

He reiterated his concern about the alleged plot to move the headquarters of the Nigerian Gas Company Ltd. in Ekpan-Warri to Abuja.

He said that the relocation of the headquarters of oil multinational companies to the Niger Delta would speed up the development of the area, create job opportunities for youths and reinforce the atmosphere of peace in the region.

He said, “I’m sure the message has been sent that they cannot move, they must remain.”

Speaking on the cleared ministerial nominees, Omo-Agege, said that the 43 nominees had passed through security screening before their names were sent to the Senate.

He expressed support for ongoing moves towards total reconciliation within All Progressives Congress.


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Lagos State Governor, on Friday, flagged off a free healthcare programme aimed at combating organ impairment and life-threatening ailments in children.

The initiative tagged “Healthy Bee Project” is a element of the Governor’s progress agenda to reposition healthcare and create lacking kids get into to superiority checkup care.

The free medical mission is organised in collaboration with Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat (BOSKOH) Healthcare Mission International, a non-governmental organisation.

The four-week programme will commence with a six-day screening in seven Primary Healthcare Centres across the state, after which those whose conditions require higher medical examinations and surgeries will be taken to the tertiary healthcare facilities without charge.

Flagging off the healthcare project at a ceremony held at the LTV Blue Roof in Agidingbi, Governor Sanwo-Olu, represented by his Deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, said the programme was purposely designed to keep children fit for their study and activities that would make them attain their potential.

He expectant parents to utilise the opening to catch their kids for inspection and behavior for medicinal state of affairs that canister regulate their mental and real development.

He said: “If children lack access to good health facilities and quality medical attention, they might lose their ability and functionality. We want to help them fight ailments that can put them at a disadvantage. This is the reason the programme is essential to make sure our children live a good and fulfilling life.

“On behalf of the people of Lagos State and for the benefit of our children in Lagos and on behalf of the Governor of Lagos State, I flag off this programme for the benefit of our children.”

The First Lady, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, noted that the intention of the medical mission was borne out of the commitment of the Lagos Government to bring down the rate of childhood diseases and disabilities.

She said children whose conditions required advanced care would be examined by a team of children health experts and surgeons from the United States, Europe, and Nigeria who are volunteers in the mission.



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The acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has appealed to the British Government to assist Nigeria with the repatriation of stolen money stashed away in banks in the United Kingdom.

Magu finished the request period being paid a commission from the UK’s deep and Organised Crime shared examination for West Africa at EFCC’s headquarters, Abuja.

The acting EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade, in a statement on Friday, said Magu expressed worries that the wealth of the country had for a very long time remained trapped in foreign countries, thereby hindering infrastructural development of the country.

Nigeria, he said, would have been better if the stolen money had been returned.

The EFCC boss said, “Our worry is that our money has been held for a very long time in foreign countries and if our money is returned, there will be improved infrastructural development in many sectors of the economy. If all the repatriated funds are pumped into the country, it will significantly enhance our abilities and capabilities.”

He frowned at the rate at which illicit funds were being moved to Britain and other European countries, disclosing that the EFCC has carried out a lot of operations at local and foreign airports to apprehend looters exiting or entering the country with illicit funds.

He further disclosed that some unscrupulous elements were smuggling out raw gold, especially from Zamfara State to foreign countries and in the process denying the country the precious natural endowment that would have been processed locally.

The leader of the SOCJA delegation from National Crime Agency, UK, Paddy Kerr, disclosed that the visit followed the directive from the British Government that each team under SOCJA should go to every region in the world and get the picture of their peculiar organized crimes.

We need to understand from the EFCC’s perspective, what is driving crimes and corruption in Nigeria. What are the key things EFCC is doing that British can assist?” Kerr asked.

Aside from Nigeria, the assignment he said, would take the team to Ghana, Guinea and Senegal, where they would identify the threats and challenges, facing the countries of this region from organised crimes.



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A 23-year-old nurse of two was sentenced to being for murdering her two daughters.

She accepted 41 social media friend requests a day after she killed one of them.

The woman, Louise Porton, was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday, The Telegraph has reported.

The court noted that she killed her daughters when she felt that they “got in the way” of her sex life.

Porton, a part-time model, suffocated three-year-old Lexi Draper and strangled 16-month-old Scarlett Vaughan in Rugby, Warwickshire in January and February 2018.

She will serve a minimum 32-year sentence for the killings, the court ruled.

The judge, Mrs. Justice Yip, described the murders as “evil” and “calculated.”

These were blameless young children who were plainly vulnerable and ought to have been able to rely on their mother to protect and nurture them.

Instead, you took their young lives away,” the Judge said.

The judge noted that Porton had “no medical history or mental disorder” that could have served as reason for her action.

In a victim impact statement read to court by the prosecution, the girls’ father, Chris Draper, said: “Why did Louise do something so evil to our beautiful daughters?

“You are their mother, the person [who is] supposed to care for them, protect and love them.

“They were just an inconvenience to you; how could you do this?”

Draper said no punishment would ever be enough, as nothing will bring his daughters back.


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A man, identified as Chukwuemeka Ajaegbu Stanley, has been arrested and freed on N20k bail after biting the lips of his young niece in Aba, Abia State.

According to reports, the commercial tricyclist had visited his brother but didn’t meet him at home. He then went into the room where his wife was and snatch the baby from her.

Stanley thereafter bolted with the baby and locked the door of the room from outside. He then proceeded to bite off his niece’s lips, while shouting that he is tired of being a tricycle rider.

The suspect was later arrested, but was later granted bail by the police. The baby was rushed to Coroma hospital, Aba, and currently receiving medical attention. Many are suggesting that the suspect took the action for ritual purpose.


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Mr Olayinka Adeniyi, a cab operator under the Airport Car Hire Association of Nigeria (ACHAN), Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, has returned 2,400 US dollars, (about N888,000), and an international passport forgotten by a passenger.

Adeniyi told newsmen on Wednesday that he discovered the items in an envelope at the back seat of the car he was driving on July 29.


This was shortly after he returned from Ibese in Ikorodu where he dropped a passenger.

The cab driver said he never had it in mind to take someone’s belongings because it would put sorrow in another family’s life.


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A Nigerian man, identified as Omofuma Christian, has died after slumping, today, in Damansara, Malaysia.

According to reports, he was just taking a walk when he suddenly slumped. He was later confirmed dead by paramedics



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ECOBANK Nigeria, yesterday, announced the successful removal of over two million plastic bottles in exchange for cash from the streets of Lagos.

Plastic bottles. CBN to mop up mutilated Naira notes from circulation The campaign, which started in May this year, is targeted at removing at least four million bottles from the environment as part of the bank’s environmental sustainability agenda.

Speaking on the initiative, the Managing Director of Ecobank Nigeria, Patrick Akinwuntan, said: “So far, we have succeeded in removing over two million bottles from the streets of Lagos.

We hope to get to the four million targets we set for ourselves within the next few months. We are grateful to our partners who have been consistent in their push to achieve this target.

I want to use this opportunity to urge residents to take their used plastics to the Lagos sewage treatment plant in Amuwo Odofin and get cash instantly.

Plastic waste is seriously affecting our food, oceans, harming marine life and threatening our food chain. As a responsible corporate organisation, we will do all it takes to check the trend to ensure a safer living environment.

Also speaking, Executive Director and Chief Risk Officer of Ecobank Nigeria, Biyi Olagbami, who is also the coordinator of the Cash for Plastic Initiative said:

We appreciate the response we are getting from residents and we hope to sustain this effort in assisting to clean our environment. “We may extend this initiative to other major cities in Nigeria in the future.

The plastic waste for cash initiative is being implemented in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Alkem Nigeria Ltd. It is aimed at improving the environmental sustainability and community health development in Lagos by rewarding residents for every plastic bottle picked from the street.

The collectors are incentivised with N30 for every kilogram plastic bottle picked.


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President Buhari has said his administration will install closed-circuit television, (CCTVs), on highways and other strategic locations, to help curtail and expose crimes. .

Responding to an address by the traditional rulers led by the Ooni of Ife , Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi during a courtesy visit to the State House, the President said: “Working with the state governments we intend to beef up the equipping of the police force with advanced technology and equipment that can facilitate the work of the security agencies.” .

The President disclosed that he “will be issuing directives to the appropriate federal authorities to speedily approve licensing for States requesting the use of drones to monitor forests and other criminal hideouts.”

He added that, “We also intend to install CCTVs on highways and other strategic locations so that activities in some of those hidden places can be exposed, more effectively monitored and open to actionable review.” .

He spoke further: “This administration will continue to do everything necessary to protect the lives of all Nigerians and ensure that every Nigerian in every state is safe, and that our people can live in peace and harmony, regardless of ethnicity, religion or region. .

As a government, we remain committed to the ideals of our democracy, particularly entrenching the rule of law and the sanctity of life.”


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Big Brother Naija, BBNaija, housemate, Omashola on Tuesday night kissed one of the new housemates, Venita. Omashola kissed Venita despite the fact that the housemates were in performance a game on Tuesday night in the yard.

This is barely 24 hours after Big Brother introduced two new housemates to the BBnaija reality show.

We reported yesterday that the two new housemates; Vendita and Elozanam came as a twist to the BBNaija game.

Vendita is an actress from Delta State.

She is a mother of two and had featured in different musical videos, while Elozanam is a 33-year-old actor, and a producer.

But, it’s, however, not certain if the new housemates are fake or part of the housemates battling for the N60m cash prize.

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The Former General Manager, Edo State Waste Management Board, Prince Esmond Akonofua, wife and his baby narrowly escaped death, recently after gunmen suspected to be herdsmen, allegedly opened fire on his vehicle, along Benin-Ore Road.

though describing the incident, he disclosed how policemen who were aimed to rescue them from the spell fixed them in survival race. In his words,

The six policemen that supposed to rescue us started running with as well as we escaped from the gunmen, Prince Edmond said.

However, Nigerians have taken to Socia media to react to the incidence, with most people slamming the men of Nigeria Police Force for their cowardice.

Below is the SUV car belonging to the victim:


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