10:17:00

I'm bringing an update on this now because I was on my way out of Nigeria last night when the news broke. Just landed to hear that 30 people may have been killed in the blast. Some media outlets are reporting as high as 70 while CNN puts the figure at 9, NEMA at 10 and the Nigerian police at 12.



The blast occurred last night Thursday May 1st around 8.20 at Karshi Taxi Park, very close to the scene of the April 14th bomb blast. It is believed that the explosion came from a bomb-laden white Volkswagen parked at the taxi park.



The bomb went off as residents of the area were returning home. Eye witnesses said bodies of some of the victims were scattered on the ground, while some were burnt beyond recognition.



A statement released by the NSCDC and NEMA said
that 10 bodies were recovered from the scene while several others were taken to different hospitals.

"While security agencies have condoned
off the area of the explosion in Nyanya, Abuja, response
agencies have moved injured victims to hospitals and at least 10
lifeless bodies have been deposited in the mortuary while 13 unconscious
victims are receiving medical attention in different hospitals in
Abuja. Other injured victims too are being attended to." the statement read in part.
Some security sources said yesterday that they believe the bomb was set to explode early this morning, just like the Nyanya blast that went off as commuters gathered at the park to take transport to their various destinations, but something went wrong and the bomb accidentally went off, killing the driver
and other innocent people who were about to board buses to leave the
Abuja City Park. Meanwhile, NEMA has called onAbuja residents to donate blood to help victims of the blast. This can't keep happening. It just can't! See more pics after the cut...

09:55:00

With the Basketball Commission forcing L.A Clippers owner Donald Sterling to sell his team following his racist audio tape scandal, several high-profile black celebrities have shown interest in buying the team. Oprah Winfrey, Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Floyd Mayweather and Magic Johnson
have all shown interest, especially Oprah.

Sterling, however, says his team is not for sale and won't go down without a fight. The 81 year old, who has not issued a public apology yet, bought the Clippers for $12 million in 1981. Today they are worth a staggering $575 million. Oprah is worth over $3billion...so she's capable.


The only way Sterling can be forced to give up his team is if 3/4 of the NBA owners agree to the sale.

09:48:00

According to multiple eye-witness reports, and residents of Abuja, another blast hit Abuja yesterday evening. A loud  explosion was heard around Mopol Junction Bus Stop, Nyanya, Abuja. The explosion was reported opposite Nyanya bus park, scene of the last explosion which killed over 70 people.



More details coming...

11:50:00

I just read Chrissy Teijen's interview today and I was like...wait, what? According to the model, she and her husband, John Legend, once had sex in the first class section of a commercial plane with other passengers around them. Such a turn on ..*wink* lol.

When asked the craziest place she and John have had sex, Chrissy replied;

"We
were on our way to Thailand to see my parents, flying commercial
first-class. We were under a blanket. We weren’t even in one of those
pod things. I feel like we should get a trophy for that." Chrissy tells Cosmoplitan magazine.

16:06:00



A 30-year old house wife, Mrs Chizoba Ejike, has been charged before the Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, western Nigeria for allegedly biting off her neighbour’s ear and swallowing it in anger.

The victim, Mrs. Ndid Eze, was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, but the chopped off portion of her ear could not be recovered as it had been allegedly swallowed by the suspect.

12:36:00

OK, here's seriously hoping that this is not true. But according to reports, the 234 girls abducted at Government Girls College on April 15th may have been married off for N2,000 each and may also have been removed from the Nigeria to neighbouring countries like Chad and Cameroon.

Daily Trust reports

Most of the 234 Borno schoolgirls in
Boko Haram captivity have been ferried abroad to Chad and Cameroon after
they were married off to sect members on N2,000 bride price each, an
elder told Daily Trust yesterday.
Dr. Pogu
Chibok, who is the leader of the Chibok Elders Forum, told Daily Trust
yesterday that latest information available to them indicates that most
of the girls have been taken to the neighboring Cameroon and Chad by
their captors.
He said before they were ferried in canoes across the
Lake Chad, a wedding ceremony was conducted at a town on the border with
Cameroon where they were married off to Boko Haram militants. Continue...

12:29:00

According to a report by SR, Ambrose Ezewani, an ex student of
the University of Lagos and former President of the National Association
of Delta State students, UNILAG chapter, who blew the lid on a
systematic student bursary racketing allegedly spearheaded by the
Commissioner for Higher Education in Delta state, Mr Hope Eghagha has
been handed over to the Delta state Government
Sahara Reporters reports..
Police officers in Sabo Station yesterday afternoon handed him over after
the Delta State officials visited to ask for his transfer to Asaba,
Delta State where he will be most likely tortured and “tried” for
revealing the fraud perpetrated by officials of the state.
Ezeanwani was President of the National Association of Delta State
Students Union at the University of Lagos. During his tenure, he
revealed that the bursary system was fraught with fraud, which he said
was being perpetrated by men in the scholarship board in Delta State. Continue...

12:26:00

The APC chieftain, Bashorun
Bayo Awosanya, who battered his wife at their residence in Sagamu
on Easter Sunday April 20th (read here) after an argument was arrested yesterday April 28th by the Ogun State police command.

"The suspect personally reported himself to the Sagamu Divisional
Police Officer, CSP Lawal Adebowale, around 0800hrs due to arrest
warrants issued and pressure mounted on him to show up before he would
be publicly declared wanted by the police" the PPRO of the Ogun State
Command in a statement.
He was later transferred to the Department of Criminal Investigation for further questioning. Ogun State police say they plan to charge him to court.

11:11:00
 
Forty-eight prisoners who are awaiting trial at the Ikoyi Prisons have passed the November/December 2013 General Certificate of Examination (GCE).

Deputy Controller of Prisons, Mr. Emmanuel Bamidele, who made the disclosure on Monday while receiving members of the Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), said 54 other inmates also wrote the examination but were unsuccessful.

“When they finally regain their freedom, they can seek admission into any university of their choice, since they are awaiting trial,” Bamidele told the NBA members, who were visiting the prison to present gifts to the inmates as part of activities marking the 2014 Law Week.

10:47:00

Foremost producer, writer, director and a leading
player in the Nigerian motion picture industry, Amaka Igwe has passed on.
She died last night April 28th in Enugu after an asthma attack. Mrs
Igwe had gone to Enugu in company of her husband for pre-production preparations for a new Igbo soap when the sad incident occurred.

She suffered an asthma attack and was immediately rushed to the hospital after initial intervention had failed but sadly died before getting there.

Mrs Igwe is survived by her husband of 21 years Charles Igwe, three children, an aged mother. So sad! May her soul rest in peace...amen. Continue...

09:48:00

Cool FM Abuja in-house DJ, Tochukwu Charles Ananti popularly known as DJ TTB married his girlfriend Gwendolyn Nebedum in a traditional wedding ceremony that held April 19th in Anambra state. Their white wedding will hold in July. Congrats to them. Continue to see more photos...

09:42:00

A video showing a single mother from Trinidad and Tobago whipping her
12-year-old daughter with a belt for sharing sexually explicit pics of
herself on Facebook has gone viral, sparking a conversation about corporal punishment.



Last Sunday, a video was posted on Facebook showing Helen Bartlett, a
mother of four from Point Fortin, beating her daughter while
hurling profanities at her. The 6 minute clip shows the angry mum raining blows on the girl, who whimpers in pain. Oyibo people feel the beating is shocking and call it child abuse but we are Africans and we have probably seen or experienced worse.



The woman has since said she does not regret beating the girl the way she did and is prepared to go to jail to set her wayward young daughter on the right path. She said since their father left them, the young girl has been unmanageable and she's scared the girl will either end up pregnant or killed. Watch the video after the cut and tell us if you think it was excessive...

09:24:00

Ann Maguire, 61, is the first teacher to be killed in the classroom of a British school. She was stabbed in the neck in front of pupils at the Corpus Christie Catholic College school in Leeds.

BBC reports that the Spanish teacher was taken to the hospital following the attack but was later pronounced dead. A 15-year-old boy was later arrested for her murder and is in custody.

A pupil at the scene told the BBC that children were seen screaming and running from a classroom following the attack. Continue...
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