BREAKING NEWS : BOMB WENT OFF IN KANO AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON

A bomb reportedly went off at a petrol station in Kano this afternoon. Eye-witnesses say the blast happened at Filling Parking in Kantin Kwari Market in Kano around 3: 30pm. Kantin Kwari market is said to be one of the largest markets in Kano. A detail of the blast is still sketchy. More later...

A NIGERIAN FOOTBALLER STABS TO DEATH IN LONDON

Joel Adesina, 15, schoolboy, and a talented footballer collapsed in Bethnal Green, in East London, on Friday night after being knifed in the stomach. He was taken to hospital but died three hours later.

Joel’s neighbours in Dagenham described him as an ambitious schoolboy who came from a hard-working family and  never stayed out late and would be seen coming home in his football kit.

Ricky Downes, the manager of Bardag FC Yellows, Joel’s football team said Joel was ‘as good as gold’ and talented enough to play professionally.

  ‘To say that myself and the club are devastated is an understatement, we are absolutely in bits.

‘Joel was a wonderful young lad who had the world at his feet.

‘He was a very talented footballer and had ambitions of playing professionally. I think he had a future in the sport and could have played for a living. He added.

However, thePolice said the teenager from Dagenham was walking with friends when they were confronted by a group in a parked car.

The group were pursued into a housing estate where neighbours heard ‘screaming and shouting’. Joel was cornered and stabbed.

A Scotland Yard spokesperson said: ‘Police were called by London Ambulance Service to Bethnal Green Road, E2, at 23:04hrs on Friday, 5 December.

‘Officers attended and found a 15-year-old boy suffering from serious stab injuries to the abdomen.

‘The boy was taken by London Ambulance Service to an east London hospital. 

He died in hospital at 02:12hrs on Saturday, 6 December.’

An 18-year-old man was arrested but was released with no further action to be taken.

Detective Chief Inspector Chris Jones of the Met’s Homicide and Major Crime Command said: ‘Anyone who may have witnessed this altercation or have information which could assist the investigation is asked to contact the police as soon as possible.’ 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2866316/Boy-stabbed-death-late-night-row-named.html#ixzz3LRVqzGWJ 

CHIEF JIM NWOBODO DISOWNS HIS THREE CHILDREN FROM 1ST MARRIAGE...

The former Governor of the old Anambra State  Chief Jim Nwobodo ,addressed journalists today in Enugu and accused two of his children (the ones he disowned today) Chukwudi and Nonso Nwobodo, of stealing the corpse of their older brother, Ifeanyi Nwobodo, who died in November after a battle with cancer

 Nwobodo addressed the problems he's having with his sons at his home today. Continue to read what he told journalists...

"This is not really a very happy occasion for me – at my age, I should be talking about peace and not to get involved in something like this. Ifeanyi was my first son and unknown to us, myself and my wife, his family hid him. 

“When we got to know that he was sick, we were very worried; we made sure he was taken to the best cancer hospital in the US.”

"From the day he died, I started planning for his burial. Because of politics, I felt that I should bury him before the primaries.

“Chukwudi and Nonso (Ifeanyi’s siblings) came to see me here and I told them that the burial will be in two weeks time that they should come back so that we could plan for it. 

“As I am talking, I have seen neither Chukwudi nor Nonso till date. Their sister, who came back from US and called me to say that she is back, as I am talking to you, I have not seen her. 

“You start to wonder- what kind of children are these? The press said I have two wives – it is not true. I divorced her (former wife) before I became governor. I have the divorce papers, please don’t refer to me as having two wives. I am a decent man. I have only one wife. Please save me the trouble and embarrassment of talking about matrimonial trouble, the church will not wed me if I have two wives.

"The children through her (former wife) cannot be said to have been flesh and blood. I am stopping at that – you know what I mean. A child that is yours will not hurt you like this, these children cannot be my flesh and blood.

“My children love me. It is only children that are not yours that will seize their brother’s dead body. If they can steal the dead body of their brother, it is terrible, unprecedented.”

Source: Punch 

OBASANJO LAUNCHES HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY 'MY WATCH' TODAY IN LAGOS

 Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, launched his autobiography 'My Watch' at the Lagos Country club Ikeja, Lagos today Dec. 9th. Guest at the event included former VC of the University of Lagos, Prof. Ibidapo Obe and former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili.

 According to reports, one of the chapters of the book titled "To be or not to be, Jonathan" Obasanjo said he was deceived by late President Umaru Yar'Adua about his health status before facilitating his emergence as the PDP flag bearer in 2007. 

In the book, Obasanjo was quoted to have said;

"As can be expected, I was heavily involved in the transition and exit process that saw me leaving office for my successor, Umaru Yar’Adua, as recounted in Chapter Thirty-seven, the ninth chapter of the second volume of this book. The unprepared and unplanned transition from Yar’Adua to Jonathan was a more difficult exercise in some respects. One reason was the ‘cloak and dagger’ manner in which Yar’Adua’s illness was handled. The illness of a President cannot be regarded as private. His health has implications for the security and wellbeing of the nation. For the president and those around him to have attempted strenuously to keep the fact of the severity of his illness from public smacks of ignorance of the enormity of what the job entails and the level of provinciality of their understanding, attitude, and approach. I remember that in 1978 or 1979 Chief Awolowo visited me while I was military head of state and shared with me how he would always stay at home to attend to the work at hand and only make a private visit to the UK once a year for health reasons if he became president of Nigeria. I made it clear to the chief that once he became president of Nigeria, he could have no private visit to anywhere as such. Wherever he would be, he would be on duty, and the totality of his life would be public. I jokingly added that the only privacy he might lay claim to would be when he was at home with Mama Chief H.I.D., and that even then his security staff would be on twenty-four-hour duty."

The launch of the three volume book was stopped by a court injunction secured by a former friend of Obasanjo, Prince Buruji Kashamuon on Friday December 5th but lawyers to Chief Obasanjo advised him to go ahead with the launch. 

PATRICK OBAHIAGBON LOST APC EDO SOUTH SENATORIAL PRIMARY..

 Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon yesterday ,lost in the APC Edo South Senatorial District primary election. He had to explain it in simple term so people will understand he lost an election...See his tweets after the cut...

PHOTO: CURRENT STATE OF FEDERAL INTER-STATE ROAD IN NIGERIA!!!

 These are the current state of the Federal interstate road in Nigeria. The photo you are looking @ is of a bridge called Moro Bridge, situated in Moro LGA of Kwara state. Drivers who ply the road say it's a nightmare for them and are asking the state government or agencies whose responsibility it is to look into the road. Nigerian roads are death traps, if you forgot, I will like to remind you that former Oyo State Military Governor and one- time Works and Housing Minister, rtd Major General Abdulkarim Adisa,  had an accident on this same road!  See more pics after the cut...

SOS: THIS IS THE PHOTO OF JULIET-MAID WHO ABDUCTED 2KIDS IN LAGOS..

 This is a photo of Juliet, the maid who abducted two kids - Rafael 2 & half year   and Michael 15 months (both pictured below) from their home in Isheri, Magodo Estate, Lagos on Sunday night 8th December 2014. Anyone with info should please call 08037071370 or contact the nearest police station