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  The first attack in Gombe since President Muhammadu Buhari came into power happened around 5pm on 16th July, 2015.   Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect struck at the central market in Gombe, capital of Gombe state, around 5pm on Thursday. A resident of the town told TheCable that the incident happened when people were shopping ahead of the Sallah celebration. “They planted bombs in a vehicle and another one in a very busy section of the market,” he said. “The market is one of the biggest in the state and the casualty is certainly going to be high because people were preparing for tomorrow’s Sallah.”

The US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield (pictured above) has stated that they would continue to pressurize Nigeria until it legalizes same sex marriage. She made this known on Monday July 13 during a live-web chat with journalists in Washington.   "As a government, it is one of the highest priorities and strongest values that discrimination against anyone based on their sexual orientation and gender identity is wrong. We believe human rights should be available to everybody. As a policy, we will continue to press the government of Nigeria, as well as other governments which have provided legislation that discriminate against the LGBT community. This is very much a work in progress, but I think you will agree with me that the law in Nigeria really went far in discriminating against this community but also people who associate with them. So, we will continue to press the government, to press the legislature to change these

  According to a report by Vanguard,  Federal Government confirmed yesterday that they have succeeded in jamming the transmission signals of Radio Biafra, which they say have been operating illegally from an unknown location. Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Information, Yemi Folasade-Esan, told State House correspondents "Right now, the signals from Radio Biafra have been jammed. The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has successfully jammed that. The NBC is also working with security operatives to get those behind that radio because it is an illegal radio. It is not licensed by anybody to be on Nigeria’s airwaves."

Article written by former minister, Femi Olukayode. Read below... Dark is the heart that weeps and bleeds. Pure is the spirit that overcomes pain. Free is the soul that activates faith. Pure is the joy that true love brings. Yet most important of all is the power of inspiration. That grace and strength that encouraging words, steeped in knowledge and experience, bring. We can only heal and help those in pain when we ourselves once experienced that pain. We can only shed light in darkness when we ourselves once walked in that darkness. We can only lift others up when we ourselves have once been down. Inspirational prose is like speaking in tongues to the unlettered- they cannot possibly understand or appreciate it. They know not it’s value and they have no use for it’s strength. Like Shakespeare once said, to them, ‘’tis caviar to the general’’.  Yet to refined souls and sensitive spirits it is everything. It is the shield tha

                           The initial lawsuit filed against the city by the family of Eric Garner, who died after being put in a choke-hold by police last July, was $75million.  New York City has reached a settlement to pay $5.9 million to resolve the claim over Eric's death. Eric's death erupted protesters around the country over how police treated African Americans. Cell phone video of the fatal encounter showed Garner saying 'I can't breath' 11 times while being held on the ground by an NYPD officer in a chokehold. He was being apprehended for allegedly illegally selling cigarettes when he died.  The family say the settlement is not victory!                     

This was disclosed on Tuesday at the public inquiries on the draft enforcement processes/procedures, regulations and SIM replacement guidelines held in Abuja by the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC. N10million fine would be imposed on any service provider that violates its guidelines on promotion of adverts in the telecoms networks by Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC). According to Juwah, with the rapid growth in telecoms industry, the commission has noticed high incidences of non-compliance to advert regulation by service operators, adding that stringent penalty was required to ensure strict compliance. He warned that continuous violation of regulations by operators would eventually lead to withdrawal of regulatory assistance by NCC, adding that the commission would take all necessary measures to ensure that telecoms operators’ compliance with its rules and guidelines with regard to adverts promotions was enforced. There was a contention that, there has been

This outrageous mother refused entry to fire fighters from breaking into her car to save her toddler son from heat, because the vehicle. BMW was too expensive to damage. The unnamed mother was unable to open the door of her BMW when it accidentally locked itself. Her three-year-old son was trapped inside and was suffering in the heat as no windows were open. Firefighters who arrived at the scene in Yiwu city, China, were about to break the glass to rescue the boy, but his mum told them she wanted to wait for a locksmith instead so the car would not be damaged.                                Despite the mother’s desire to wait, fire fighters eventually took matters into their own hands when the boy started to faint and they smashed the glass to rescue him. One of the fire fighters was quoted as saying: “It’s very dangerous to leave children inside cars, especially in such heat. “It can threaten a child’s life in a very short time.”