Filling Station In Nnewi Gutted By Fire This Morning (photos)

Reporting From Nnewi Anambra State , Nigeria , Another Fire outbreak:- Two Popular filling stations, Organiser and Red filling station at located Amunko, Nnewi Okpuno Nnewichi in Anambra state, was razed to the ground this morning after an explosion...suspected to have been caused by a fuel tanker. Fire service and police are currently at the location to deal with the situation. Not sure of casualties... hopefully, there isn't any, photos from the incident below.

Photo: ISIS terror group beheads a man for insulting Allah

A video purportedly released by the Islamic State shows a man being beheaded in Hasakah for allegedly insulting Allah.

Aliko Dangote, three other directors resigns from Dangote Flour Mill

Aliko Dangote

Aliko Dangote and three other directors have resigned from the board of Dangote Flour Mills after majority shareholder of Flour Mill, Tiger Brands, cut funding support to its struggling Nigerian division today November 16th.

Lagos Rapid Respond Squad arrest three traffic robbers (photos)

The Lagos state Rapid Response Squad (RRS) arrested three ex–convicts identified as Adekunle Mustapha, 21, Popoola Olumide, 20 and Femi Amusa, 20 for traffic robbery in Oshodi area of Lagos State this morning.

A statement from the Rapid Response Squad states that one of the victims was inside early morning traffic around Bolade in Oshodi at about 6:30 am when one of the robbers, Adekunle Mustapha snatched his blackberry phone through the window and ran away with it.

9-year-old boy executed in Chicago over father's gang ties

9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was walking on Chicago's south side when he was lured into an alley and killed, but his father, whose alleged gang ties are believed to have played a role in the boy's murder, won't talk, according to disgusted police who on Friday pleaded for the community to help identify Tyshawn's killer.

Baby, 2 brothers perish in building collapse in Lagos

A baby boy and two brothers identified as Slva Odiah, 24 and Sayo Odiah, 14 have perished in a building that collapsed at Orisha Street, Isheri Magodo, Imodium, Ojodu/Berger in Lagos this morning. The building collapsed while family members were still asleep. The mother of the two boys who died has been rushed to the Tabasco General Hospital while efforts is ongoing to rescue her other children that are trapped in the rubble. They are 11-year-old Clinton Odiah and eight-year-old Endurance Odiah. 

Photos: APC members jubilate after Aisha Alhassan was declared winner of the state

Some APC members pictured jubilating after Aisha Alhassan aka Mama Taraba was declared winner of the state election by the election tribunal. Continue to see more photos...

76 year old woman kills 78 year old husband after he accused her of cheating

Investigators say a 76-year-old woman charged with murder in her husband's shooting told deputies she was angry because he accused her of cheating.
Aiken County deputies say Mary Todd also told the officers who came to her Beech Island home around 4 a.m. Tuesday that she drank too much before the confrontation.

Scott Disick Shares Cryptic Quote, Suggests He's Still Hoping to Get Kourtney Kardashian Back

Scott Disick says he's never giving up...on Kourtney?

Never giving up? That's the message Scott Disick put out into the Instagram universe on Monday, Oct. 12 — just hours after he was seen breaking down in tears and admitting he was lonely in the Keeping Up With the Kardashians Season 11 preview.

The dad-of-three, 32, shared the inspirational message on Monday afternoon, which showed the words "Never Give Up" written in chalk on a blackboard. He gave the photo no caption.

Feeling small? How even our SUN is barely visible next to the largest star in the UNIVERSE

Our sun, ringed, shown next to red hyper giant VY Canis Majoris

 THEY say size is all relative…and in this case it is certainly true.

This staggering image shows how our sun - which is so big it accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the solar system - would look next to the biggest star in the universe.

VY Canis Majoris is so large that it is impossible to even represent the earth in this picture as it would measure less than one thousandth of a single pixel.

Housemaid Jailed For Stealing Underwear

 

 A 20-year-old housemaid has bagged two months prisons term for stealing her mistress’s underwear and other personal effect.

The domestic servant who was simply identified as Vivian was sentenced by an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court. Vivian who is placed on a N20, 000 monthly salary by boss, Bisis Awoniyi, and a day off duty per week was said to be preparing to observe her off duty day on September 9.

Lagos Residents To Be Subjected To Thorough Searching

A cross-section of policemen

The statement further informed that the command has created a “tactical operation point“ (TOP) in all entry points of the state.
The statement reads: “Members of the public are by this release informed that such “Tactical Operation Point” should not be seen as the old fashioned/banned road blocks. As far as the command is concerned road block remain banned. 

Bukola Saraki Found A Way To Escape Prosecution

Bukola Saraki will enjoy immunity?

Bukola Saraki found a way to escape prosecution as his loyalists plan to amend the Constitution to grant him impunity.

Bukola Saraki will not face prosecution until the expiration of his powers as the Senate President in case his loyalists in the National Assembly will amend the constitution of Nigeria.
Leo Ogor, the Minority Leader of the House of Reps, told the press that the president of Nigeria and his vice-president should not be the only ones who enjoy immunity; the heads of the legislative and the judiciary branches of power should be protected from persecution as well.

How I Picked Body Parts From My Toilet – Abuja Resident

Abuja blast scene

 Arase, a cleaner in an organisation in Nigeria, lives in Nyanya with his wife and their seven days old baby.
He said he had just gone to bed some minutes after 9pm when the twin blasts happened in the location.
“I went to bed after 9 pm and few minutes after that, I think 10.30 pm or so, that was when the bomb blast happened. You know, the thing blasted there now (pointing to the scene) so, the pieces now blasted and scattered everywhere,” Arase said.
He said:“I picked one from the zinc, another one from the toilet and I still cannot explain how they got in there.”

Alamieyeseigha Should Be Extradited To The UK - Sagay

Prof Itse Sagay, the chairman of the presidential advisory committee on corruption has said that the former governor of Bayelsa state, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha deserves to be extradited to London based on the demand of the United Kingdom.
The former governor was granted a presidential pardon in 2013 by former president Goodluck Jonathan who incidentally served as deputy governor to Alamieyeseigha when he was governor of Bayelsa state.

Alison-Madueke Likely Not To Appear In Court

Diezani Alison-Madueke

 The former minister of petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, may not appear at the London Magistrate Court on Monday, October 5, over charges of corruption and money laundering.
Sam Piranty, a journalist with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who is monitoring the event revealed this via his twitter handle.

'We are not gays' - Robert Mugabe tells UN General Assembly

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe yesterday took his anti-gay campaign to the ongoing UN General Assembly where he bluntly told world leaders at the United Nations that Africans are not gays and totally reject attempts to prescribe new rights including gay rights in Africa

The man who would be king of Kurdistan

An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter monitors his surrounding from the top of Mount Zardak, about 25km east of Mosul{Ever-Kind}

Decades after warrior-king Sheikh Mahmud's overthrow, Kurds keep on fighting for a homeland.

Sulaimania, Iraq - By the time Sheikh Mahmud Barzinji declared himself king of Kurdistan in 1922, over an area that included the city of Sulaimania and its environs, he had already fought dozens of battles; some alongside the British against the Ottomans, others against the British alongside the Arabs, and then several more against the Arabs.

From March 1923 to mid-1924, the British retaliated against Sheikh Mahmud's perceived insolence with aerial bombardment, and thus ended the Kurds' first attempt at full-fledged sovereignty.

In 1923, the Treaty of Lausanne had dealt a definitive blow to Kurdish aspirations for self-determination in the aftermath of the Ottoman Empire's disintegration. Three years earlier, the Treaty of Sevres stipulated that the oil-rich Mosul Vilayet be given to the Kurds. But at Lausanne, the British and the French changed their minds and drew up a very different map, which gave rise to the modern state of Iraq.

Photos of Boko haram members allegedly celebrating Sallah openly

These are photos of suspected Boko Haram members openly celebrating Sallah in their hideout. According to Sahara reporters, the pictures are from a video released by the sect members apparently in a bid to counter the statements of the Nigerian army that they are being routed out. More photos after the cut...