BREAKING NEWS! Another Explosion Rocks Kano

Another Explosion Rocks Kano

Information reaching 247ureports.com indicates that another massive explosion has hit the State of Kano. As gathered, the explosion occurred at the popular luxurious bus park located along New Road inside Sabon Gari. The explosion, according to eyewitness occurred at about 12:45pm. The number of casualties is uncertain but it is expected for the casualty figure to be high.
Last year, the same popular transport park was hit by a bomb explosion by suicide bombers who drove in a Golf model vehicle. It remains uncertain the attack mechanism employed by the attackers in today’s attack. But it is certain the explosion was from a target bomb explosion.
The motor park is frequented largely by southerners predominantly Igbos and Christians. It is located across the street from the popular Holy Trinity Cathedral [Anglican].
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Finally free! Sudanese woman spared death sentence for apostasy arrives in Italy

Finally free! Sudanese woman spared death sentence for apostasy arrives in Italy

Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian mother put on death row for refusing to reject Christianity has now arrived Italy, ending an almost year-long ordeal that triggered outrage around the world.

The State Department has been negotiating with Sudanese officials to secure the family's safe passage out of the country. She, her American husband and two young children, eventually fled   Sudan on Thursday and arrived at Rome's Ciampino airport accompanied by Italy’s vice minister of foreignaffairs, officials told NBC News.They had been sheltered at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum for almost a month.

Ibrahim was heavily pregnant when she was jailed in Febuary after a member of the Muslim side of her family told authorities she had recently converted from Islam to marry her Christian husband. She was sentenced to death and 100 lashes after she refused to renounce Christianity when given the opportunity in court. She was forced to take her 20-month-old son into her cell and gave birth to her second child, Maya, while her legs were in shackles.

BREAKIGN NEWS! Algerian plane with 116 on board disappears from radar

Not again! Algerian plane with 116 on board disappears from radar
Another day, another air disaster.

This is beginning to get scary. An Air Algerie flight flying from Burkina Faso to Algeria with 116 people on board has dropped off radar.

Swift Air, the operators of the aircraft, say they lost contact with the flight 50 minutes after it took off this morning from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It was supposed to have arrived at Algiers' Houari Boumediene Airport about four hours later but the plane has just disappeared.

"We have lost contact with the plane. At this moment, emergency services and our staff are working on finding out more on this situation." Swiftair said.

The plane, an MD-83, has 110 passengers on-board with 2 pilots and four crew members. Air Algerie is Algeria's national airline.

BOMBERS WANTED TO ASSASSINATE ME---BUHARI

BOMBERS WANTED TO ASSASSINATE ME---BUHARI

Former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has said that the second explosion that ripped through Kaduna on Wednesday was an assassination attempt on his life.

Buhari said this in a statement he signed. “I am personally involved in a clearly targeted bomb attack today at about 2:30pm on my way to Daura.

Buhari, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress narrated harrowing experience. “The unfortunate event, clearly an assassination attempt came from a fast moving vehicle that made many attempts to overtake my security car, but was blocked by escort vehicle.

“We reached the market area of Kawo where he took advantage of our slowing down and attempted to ram my car and instantly detonated the bomb which destroyed all the three cars in our convoy.

“Unfortunately, when I came out of my vehicle, I saw many dead bodies littered around. They were innocent people going about their daily business who became victims of mass murder.

“Thank God for His mercy, I came out unhurt, but three of my security staff sustained minor injuries. They have since been treated in hospital and discharged,” the statement read

Abia Govt Demolishes Kidnapper's House

Abia Govt Demolishes Kidnapper's House

Abia State government has demolished a building belonging to one Ogbuonye Ogbonna Daniel due to his involvement in kidnapping activities in the state.
Security Adviser to Abia State Governor/State Task Force Chairman, Capt. Awa Udonsi Agwu (Rtd.), who spoke to newsmen after the demolition of the bungalow at Umuariaga Oboro in Ikwuano LGA, said the measure is to serve as deterrent to other kidnappers and those nursing the idea to enter the illicit business.
He said that the state government abhors kidnapping and would stop at nothing to stamp the menace out of the state.
According to him, other kidnappers who have property in the state will have them pulled down once the government identifies such property and assured that the process is an on-going one.
Meanwhile, residents of Umuariaga who spoke on condition of anonymity have applauded the state Government for embarking on the demolition exercise,pointing out that they have been living in fear due the activities of some suspected kidnappers operating in the area.
It would be recalled that not long ago, a hotel belonging to another kidnapper at Afaraukwu was demolished by the State Government in its bid to flush out kidnappers from the State

63 abducted Borno women escape from Boko Haram's den

63 abducted Borno women escape from Boko Haram's den

Sixty-three women abducted by the Boko Haram Islamic sect from Kummabza village in the Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State two weeks ago have escaped from their kidnappers, security sources said on Sunday.The women, the security sources said, had reunited                  with their families. Some witnesses said that their unexpected freedom was facilitated when the insurgents left them in the camp to embark on an operation where they attacked military formations on Friday.

This, the sources said, presented the women with an opportunity to flee from their abductors.It will be recalled that 70 women were allegedly abducted by insurgents from Kummabza village two weeks ago.
The Federal Government denied the abduction but the Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim 

Shettima, set up an inquiry into the kidnap.The panel had yet to submit its report when security sources told journalists that the women had escaped from their captors.

Also, investigations into the incident revealed that there was a grand conspiracy to cover up the 

abduction as the nation was still going through the embarrassment of the abduction of the over 200 schoolgirls from the Government Secondary School in Chibok on April 14.A top Borno State 

63 abducted Borno women escape from Boko Haram's den

Sixty-three women abducted by the Boko Haram Islamic sect from Kummabza village in the Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State two weeks ago have escaped from their kidnappers, security sources said on Sunday.The women, the security sources said, had reunited with their families. Some witnesses said that their unexpected freedom was facilitated when the insurgents left them in the camp to embark on an operation where they attacked military formations on Friday.

This, the sources said, presented the women with an opportunity to flee from their abductors.It will be recalled that 70 women were allegedly abducted by insurgents from Kummabza village two weeks ago.
The Federal Government denied the abduction but the Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, set up an inquiry into the kidnap.The panel had yet to submit its report when security sources told journalists that the women had escaped from their captors.

Also, investigations into the incident revealed that there was a grand conspiracy to cover up the abduction as the nation was still going through the embarrassment of the abduction of the over 200 schoolgirls from the Government Secondary School in Chibok on April 14.A top Borno State government official had revealed that though 70 women were kidnapped, the state government was handling the issue with caution in order not to be drawn into another confrontation with the Federal Government who had allegedly believed that the abduction of the Chibok girls was masterminded by the state government.However, security sources and eyewitnesses told journalists that 63 out of the 70 abducted women had escaped from captivity and made their way back home.Some residents of the villages where the women were abducted told journalists that the women who looked unkempt returned home on Saturday.

One Adamu Suleiman, a member of the youth vigilante group said, “I have just received an alert from my colleagues in Damboa area that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home. They took to their heels when their captors left them at the camp to go for a major operation.“We don’t have the details of their escape yet, but we believe God gave them the opportunity at the time the insurgents came in their large numbers to attack Damboa on Friday.”

“We still believe seven women could still be in the camp or perhaps something must have happened to them.”A top security officer, who did not want his name in print, said half of the escaped women had already reunited with their families while some others found wandering in the bushes near Adamawa State were in the custody of soldiers in Gulak town.

 official had revealed that though 70 women were kidnapped, the state government was handling the issue with caution in order not to be drawn into another confrontation with the Federal Government who had allegedly believed that the abduction of the Chibok girls was masterminded by the state government.However, security sources and eyewitnesses told journalists that 63 out of the 70 abducted women had escaped from captivity and made their way back home.Some residents of the villages where the women were abducted told journalists that the women who looked unkempt returned home on Saturday.

One Adamu Suleiman, a member of the youth vigilante group said, “I have just received an alert from my colleagues in Damboa area that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home. They took to their heels when their captors left them at the camp to go for a major operation.“We don’t have the details of their escape yet, but we believe God gave them the opportunity at the time the insurgents came in their large numbers to attack Damboa on Friday.”

“We still believe seven women could still be in the camp or perhaps something must have happened to them.”A top security officer, who did not want his name in print, said half of the escaped women had already reunited with their families while some others found wandering in the bushes near Adamawa State were in the custody of soldiers in Gulak town.