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Nigeria schoolgirls: police ban anti-Boko Haram protest marches in Abuja

Supporters of missing girls told they can no longer gather due to 'security risk'

Nigerian police have banned protests in the capital Abuja by supporters of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants as the activists vowed to challenge the "illegal" move.

Noisy street demonstrations in Abuja have become a regular feature of the campaign to put pressure on the government and keep the issue in the public eye seven weeks after the girls were abducted from a school in northern Nigeria on April 14.

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police spokeswoman Altine Daniel confirmed the ban in a text message to AFP, saying the decision was taken "because of security reasons".

Protest organisers questioned the legitimacy of the move and eyed a possible political motive, but police chief Joseph Mbu said the ban was imposed because of the threat of infiltration from "dangerous elements".

"There is no basis for and no power of FCT Commissioner of Police to ban peaceful assembly of any group of persons in... the city. None@ ALL," said protest leader Oby Ezekwesili on Twitte

In Loving Memory of Our Shining Lights Lost on the Dana Airlines Flight 9J-922

Posted on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 at 11:48 AMOn this day two years ago, our nation was struck with the tragedy of the Dana Airlines crash. We mourned and grieved for the shining lights that were snuffed out by this terrible incidence.
As we remember the lives that were lost on that dark day, we pray for comfort and strength for the family and friends of the victims.

Two 12 year old American Girls Stab Friend 19 Times to Impress Internet Character Posted on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 at 10:55 AM

Two 12 year old American Girls Stab Friend 19 Times to Impress In

Posted on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 at 10:55 AM

Two 12-year-old girls stabbed their friend to impress someone they met on the Internet. 

They lured their friend, who is also their age mate,  into a wooded area in Milwaukee last weekend, and stabbed her 19 times, AFRICAN BOBO reports.

She was severely wounded but luckily, her life was saved because she was found by a bicyclist who was riding around the area. She is now receiving treatment at a hospital and is in stable condition.

The girls intended to kill their friend to impress a certain “Slenderman,” whom they met on a website called “Creepypasta Wiki,” which posts horror stories.

Slenderman is the site’s leader, and to be a part of his world, a user must first kill someone.

The fictional Slenderman character is reportedly an internet meme that often appears in horror stories, images, and videos. 

Although both girls are minors, they will face trial as adults. They have been charged with attempted homicide.

Ijeoma Nnaji Wins Miss Curvy 2014 Pageant in Lagos

Posted on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 at 8:50 AM
Like Tyra Banks would say, these ladies are fiercely real.

On Saturday 31st May 2014, the Miss Curvy 2014 grand finale was held at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Hosted by comedienne/actress Lepacious Bose, the pageantry saw Ijeoma Nnaji representing Kano win the top honour. She will get a saloon car, a working contract for a year as well as consolation prizes.

The first and second runner up are Daina Ifeoma Akpuru and Jennifer Okizie.

Celebrities at the event include Sound Sultan – who performed, Julius Agwu, Zizi Cardow and Bryan Okwara.

Nigeria: Boko Haram suspected as bomb kills 14

Nigeria has witnessed a growing number of increasingly daring violent attacks by the terrorist group

This attack follows a similar suicide bomb attempt at an open-air viewing of a football match in the central city of Jos (pictured) Photo: AFP/Getty Images

By Reuters

7:36AM BST 02 Jun 2014

A bomb blast targeting a television viewing centre for football in northeast Nigeria killed at least 14 people and wounded 12 on Sunday, police and the military said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in Gavan in the Mubi area of Adamawa state. Islamist militant group Boko Haram, whose struggle for an Islamic state is concentrated in the Northeast, would be the prime suspect.

"So far we have 14 dead while 12 are injured, some of them critically," police spokesman for Adamawa state Usman Abubakar said by telephone. He had no further details.

The group has set off several bombs across north and central Nigeria over the past two months, repeatedly causing carnage.

"I heard a loud blast. The place is near the market, which I had just left. I ran," said John Audu, a resident of the town.

Last weekend, a suicide bomber set out to strike an open-air viewing of a football match in the central city of Jos, but his car blew up before reaching the target, killing three people.
A suicide bombing the week before in Jos killed 118 people, and two bombs on the outskirts of Abuja in April killed 95 between them. Boko Haram, now seen as the main security threat to Africa's biggest economy and top oil producer, has killed thousands since launching an uprising in 2009.
The group is still holding more than 200 schoolgirls that it abducted on April 14, sparking international outrage.
Nigeria's president said on Thursday he had ordered "a full-scale operation" against Boko Haram and sought to reassure parents of the kidnapped girls that their children would be freed.
Since the girls were taken, Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 500 civilians, according to a Reuters count.
Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun, kidnapped in northern Cameroon nearly two months ago by suspected Boko Haram gunmen, were released on Sunday, smiling and apparently in good health as they arrived in the capital.
Cameroonian security forces killed some 40 Boko Haram militants in clashes in the country's far north, state radio said on Sunday. A presidency source confirmed the clashes, which took place west of the town of Kousseri, in the region bordering Nigeria and Chad.
Nigeria has accused Cameroon of not being tough enough on the militants hiding in its border region.

DRAMA: First time woman visitor conned Ksh 20,000 after attempting to play ‘cards’ in CBD Nairobi

Members of the public were earlier today treated to an adrenaline pumping and heart-fluttering drama along Racecourse road in Nairobi.
A young woman who had arrived in Nairobberry, sorry I meant Nairobi, probably in her mid-twenties, caused quite a stir along the busy road after falling victim to the antics of some professional con-artists who were quick to capitalize on her wide-eyed naivety.
The rush-hour spectacle,which attracted a sizeable multitude of people on their way to their respective work stations,bore the hallmarks of a Nigerian blockbuster or Kenya’s prank program ‘Naswa’.
It was not a prank program in the shooting nor was the ‘bootiful’ beauty a character in some Nigerian movie as I gathered.The situation unfolding right before my eyes was real!
Her tormentors(con-men) had already vanished into thin air after milking her dry ,nowhere to be seen;probably flaunting their con credentials in another part of town.I guess the reprobates were now smiling themselves stupid after effortlessly making cash and ensuring that they had ushered their unsuspecting victim into Nairobi in style.