38 Killed By Fulani Herdsmen In Attacks On Kaduna Villages [GRAPHIC IMAGE]

No fewer than 38 persons, including women and children, were killed on Monday night in separate attacks on Fadan Karshi and Nandu villages in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

Already, Governor Ramalan Yero has condemned the attack at Fadan Karshi village, describing the act as a “provocative attempt by some unpatriotic people to cause confusion and unrest.”

Confirming the tragedy to Vanguard on telephone, yesterday, Chairman of Sanga Local Government Area, Mr. Emmanuel Adamu, said: “They came around 10 p.m. last night (Monday night) and started killing people in Fadan Karshi village. They killed 17 people there.

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Boko Haram Leader Shekau Releases New Video Showing Purported Women And Children Hostages

Abubakar Shekau has released yet another video of hostages he claims to be have been taken very recently.

The abductions which Shekau claims to be in retaliation for the family members of Boko Haram members allegedly captured by Federal forces, although names of the people abducted by Nigerian forces were not mentioned in the video.

In the video, Shekau also claims responsibility for the two recent attacks that took place in Bama and Baga areas of North Eastern Nigeria.

The purported head of Nigerian militant Boko Haram on Monday released a video which depicts women and children apparently being held hostage. The group also claimed two recent deadly attacks in the northeastern Nigeria.

Fire Guts Popular Bodija Market In Ibadan

One of the Oyo State popular markets, Bodija Market, Ibadan was on Tuesday, June 24, 2014 engulfed in flames .

Property worth about N23 million Naira were destroyed as fire razed about 16 shops in the market

Although the cause of the inferno could not be established as of press time, eyewitnesses disclosed that the fire may have been caused by high power voltage in the market.

The fire which started around 4.30am and lasted for more than 2 hours destroyed shops belonging to corn millers, hairdressers, fashion designers and hot drink sellers.

Bomb Blast Rocks Kano School Of Hygiene

Not less than eight people are fear dead, after a bomb explosion struck a public health college facility in Nigeria’s second largest city of Kano.

About 20 others were wounded- 12 of whom sustained grave injuries- in the blast at the Kano School of Hygiene in the late hours of Monday.

The blast occurred as students were struggling to meet registration deadline for the new academic session.

It most likely originate from a car park next to the post-secondary training facility, a teacher at the college told AFP news agency.

Military Troops Kill 70 Boko Haram Members In Borno Air Raid

Over 70 suspected Boko Haram terrorists, who participated in separate attacks on Chuha I, Chuha II and Korogilim villages of Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State last weekend, have been killed in an air raid, with support from ground troops of the 7 Division, Nigerian Army, sources and residents have said.

This came on a day a suicide bomber blew himself and seven others up at Kano School of Hygiene Technology along Gida Murtala-BUK road yesterday, while 20 persons sustained life-threatening injuries.

Meanwhile, the Federal Government, yesterday, said it had mobilised emergency services to the site of the Kano bomb blast

Lagos Bans Unregistered Commercial Buses From July 1

The Lagos State Government at the weekend issued a final ultimatum to commercial bus operators, which it said, had not complied with its public transport management system.

It added that it would begin total enforcement of the Lagos Road Traffic Law, asking the business operators to register their business with the government or stop doing business in the state with effect from July 1.

The state Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, gave the deadline at a news conference he addressed in Alausa, putting the deadline for registration for all commercial bus drivers and conductors at June 30.

According to him, total enforcement would begin in earnest from the first day of July, directing that any commercial vehicle not registered after the deadline should be impounded.

Opeifa lamented that since the commercial bus operators were asked to document their business since November 2013, many of them had not complied despite series of extension granted to enable them register their business free of charge.

#WorldCup: Honduras vs Ecuador Match Preview

Honduras midfielder Wilson Palacios is suspended for his red card against France in the opening game, so former Hibernian loanee Jorge Claros or Oscar Boniek Garcia could start.

Defender Victor Bernardez is a fitness doubt, having been replaced by Osman Chavez at half-time in that match after suffering an ankle injury.

Ecuador are likely to field the same line-up that lost to Switzerland.

Juan Carlos Paredes is one booking from triggering a suspension BBC reports.

DATE: June 20, 2014

TIME: 23:00 BST

VENUE: Arena da Baixada, Curitiba

POSSIBLE LINE UP:

HONDURAS: Valladares, Figueroa, Bernardez, Izaguirre, García, Bengtson, Costly, Espinoza, Najar, Garrido, Beckeles.

ECUADOR: Dominguez, Paredes, Erazo, Guagua, Ayoví, Noboa , Gruezo, Montero, Valencia , Arroyo , Enner Valencia

#WorldCup: Switzerland vs France Match Preview

Switzerland head coach Ottmar Hitzfeld must decide whether to start with either of the substitutes who scored in the 2-1 win over Ecuador.

Admir Mehmedi could be preferred to winger Valentin Stocker but match-winner Haris Seferovic admits he is unlikely to displace Josip Drmic.

France are optimistic that midfielder Yohan Cabaye will recover from a groin problem in time to play.

Cabaye, Patrice Evra and Paul Pogba are all one booking from a ban BBC reports.

DATE: June 20, 2014

TIME: 20:00 BST

VENUE:  Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador

POSSIBLE LINE UP:

SWITZERLAND: Benaglio; Lichtsteiner, Djourou, Von Bergen, Rodriguez; Inler, Shaqiri Behrami, Stocker, Xhaka; Drmic.

FRANCE: Lloris; Debuchy, Varane, Sakho, Evra; Cabaye, Matuidi, Pogba; Valbuena, Benzema, Griezmann.

#WorldCup: Italy vs Costa Rica Match Preview

DATE: June, 20, 2014

TIME: 17:00 BST

VENUE: Arena Pernambuco, Recife

POSSIBLE LINE UP:

ITALY:  Sirigu; Darmian, Chiellini, Barzagli, Paletta; De Rossi, Pirlo, Marchisio; Candreva, Verratti; Balotelli.

COSTA RICA:  Navas; Gamboa, Umana, Gonzalez, Duarte, Diaz; Borges, Tejeda; Bolanos, Ruiz; Campbell.

Italy pair Gianluigi Buffon and Mattia De Sciglio are back in training but a late decision will be made on their availability.

Andrea Barzagli and Daniele De Rossi picked up minor knocks earlier in the week and will be assessed.

Costa Rica looks set to continue with the 5-4-1 formation that served them so well in a 3-1 win over Uruguay.

Joel Campbell is again expected to lead the line, with Bryan Ruiz breaking from an advanced right position.

5 Simple Gym Hygiene Habits You Should Follow

Public places are full of germs and bacteria that can cause infections. 

So are gyms or public parks that have parallel bars and monkey bars. Prevent contagious diseases, infection and skin problems with these gym hygiene tips shared by our Fitness expert and Strength and Conditioning coach, Arnav Sarkar.

Personal care and hygiene habits for public gyms and parks:

“If you are in a public gym, then you should consider using a towel since you will be sharing equipment that others have used,” says Arnav Sarkar. Besides carrying a towel here are a few tips you can keep in mind to prevent diseases.

Pregnant Woman Commits Suicide In Edo

A middle-aged woman in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State, Ometere Aduga, has reportedly committed suicide.

The mother of two, who was said to be pregnant, was said to have committed the act by hanging herself with a rope she fastened to a ceiling fan.

Her unclad body was reportedly discovered in her apartment hours after she did not come out of bathroom, where she said she was going.

A neighbour said the victim had, a few days ago, visited a private hospital, where she was said to have told the hospital personnel of her intention to commit suicide because of a pregnancy she was carrying.

She was said to have been counselled against the act and told to report back on Monday for medical examination and counselling.

“Ometere was a very brilliant girl who was a 300- level medical student at the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, before she withdrew due to health reasons. She also had some mental disorder but later recovered and married. Her husband is not from here, so she has been staying with her parents,” a family friend said.

When contacted, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Hilary Udoh, confirmed the incident, saying, “yes, it is true and the parents said they have taken it in good faith.”

1,000,000 Iraqis have fled their homes as ISIS continues armed siege

More than a million Iraqis have been forced from their homes by conflict this year, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday -- a number only likely to rise as Islamist militants and Iraqi security forces battle for control.

A humanitarian crisis is brewing, as families who've fled fighting with little more than the clothes on their back seek water, food and shelter from the summer heat.

Concern for the soaring number of people displaced in Iraq comes as the UNHCR marks World Refugee Day on Friday.  Its report, based on data up to the end of 2013, finds that the number of refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people worldwide has, for the first time since World War II, exceeded 50 million people.

Now the crisis in Iraq -- which was already sheltering hundreds of thousands displaced by the war in Syria -- is swelling that number even further.

An estimated 500,000 people fled Iraq's second city, Mosul, last week after it fell to fighters from the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

500 Stolen Cows Recovered By The Police In Zamfara

Over 500 cows have been recovered by the Zamfara State police command from suspected cattle rustlers in the state.

The state Police Commissioner, Alhaji Tijja Baba who made this known in an interview with Vanguard, at Gusau, the state capital, explained that his men recovered the cows following intelligence reports from some patriotic Nigerians in the state.

Baba further said that the police also recovered two A-K47 riffles and other dangerous weapons from the cattle thieves, following a raid of their hideouts.

In the process of the raid, dozens of cows were found in the bush, while two suspects were arrested with the two AK-47 riffles and some sharp knives.

The state police boss said that all the recovered cows were currently under the custody of the command, adding that, “my men will not relent in their efforts to making the state crime free.”

He explained that the 24-hour patrol currently going on in all parts of the state would continue until crime was completely wiped out in the state.

Igbo Youths Blast Northern Counterparts Over Comment On 486 Arrested Northerners

Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Council [OYC] has berated the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) over the latter’s criticism of South East Governors on the arrest last Sunday, of 486 suspected insurgents in Abia section of the Enugu-Port Harcourt express road by soldiers.

AYCF President, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, it would be recalled, cautioned governors of the region agsint the indiscriminate arrest of northerners in the South-East, saying that the people arrested were travelers and not Boko Haram insurgents.

Reacting to the position of AYCF, Ohaneze Youth Council warned their northern counterparts to “stop politicizing the security problem in the country”, and reminded AYCF that the 486 suspects were arrested by the nation’s security operatives not South East governors.

The South East governors, who visited the presidential villa, Abuja, where they held a closed-door meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday, assured him of their unflinching support in the fight against terrorism even as they declared that the region would remain impregnable to Boko Haram infiltration.

They spoke on the backdrop of the discovery of three deadly Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, planted in the auditorium and parking space of Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, Owerri, Imo State.

2 Women Jailed 5 Months Each For Slapping A Police Man

An Upper Area court in Zuba, FCT, on Wednesday sentenced two women – Binta Mamman, 35, and Safiya Aliyu, 19, both of Deidei, Abuja, to five months imprisonment for slapping a police man.

The women had also been charged with using abusive language and public nuisance.

Malam Aminu Sa’ad, the presiding judge, handed down the sentence after the women pleaded guilty to the three-count charge of criminal force and assault, use of abusive language and public nuisance.

Sa’ad ruled that on the first count of criminal force and assault, the convicts shall serve a jail term of one month each without an option of fine.

He, however, gave them an option of N20,000 fine each for the other two counts charge including the use of abusive language and public nuisance, and declared the terms would run consecutively.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Cpl. Momoh Ibrahim, had told the court that on June 14, 2014, the convicts were arrested for using insulting language on the person of a police officer, one Cpl. Abraham Omageni of Deidei police station.

Ibrahim said the convicts also slapped Omageni.

The prosecutor told the court that their offences contravened the provisions of the Penal Code.

Man Hires Assasins To Kill Wife For Giving Birth To Only Female Children In Ebonyi

Paul Nwakpuke, a patent medicine dealer is on the run for allegedly hiring assassins to kill his wife, Mrs. Monica Nwakpuke, for giving birth to only female children.

The culprit, Paul, who hails from Onuojgon Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, had on several occasions sent his wife back to her parents house for not giving birth to a male child before he allegedly hired the attackers to set her on fire.

The attackers were said to have traced the victim to her father’s house where she was living over the lingering case of the male child issue with the sole aim of killing her.

The attackers allegedly doused her with fuel, then set her on fire and left before she was taken to the hospital where she is battling for survival.

The victim’s younger brother, Mr. Sunday Nwigbo, said for the past 12 years when Paul impregnated Monica when she was a student of Enyi Community Secondary School in Ikwo, there had been no genuine  love between the husband and wife.

‘I was knocked senseless’ – Survivors Of Yobe #WorldCup Viewing Centre Blast Tell Their Story (PHOTO)

Survivors of a bomb blast at an illegal World Cup viewing site in northeast Nigeria that killed at least 14 people say the force of the explosion blew off limbs and knocked people senseless.

At least 26 people were wounded in Tuesday night’s blast as soccer fans were viewing the Brazil-Mexico match in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state, police said.

“The bomb just threw me and I didn’t even know where I was,” survivor Babagana Mohammed said. He recovered consciousness in the hospital.

Another wounded victim, Musa Mohammed, said some people lost limbs in the blast. He said he had stopped by to buy airtime for his mobile phone when a normal evening turned nighmarish.

OAU Students Protest Increase In School Fees, Use Road For Prayers

The recent hike in tuition fees by some federal and state universities across the country has become a challenge in the educational sector following demonstrations carried out by students demanding a reversal to the former fee structure.

Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, (OAU)  disrupted academic activities at the institution on Monday, June 16, 2014  protesting the increase in their tuition fees by the school authorities.

Woman, 26, Charged With Sex Crimes After Giving Birth To 15-Year-Old Victim’s Baby (PICTURED)

Cherrelle Gregory, 26, who delivered her baby last month, is being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a boy who was 15 years old in September of last year.

A woman in Jonesboro, AR, has been charged with sex crimes after it was discovered that the father of the baby she had given birth to a month ago was under aged at the time of conception.

Cherrelle Gregory, 26, who delivered her baby last month, is being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a boy who was 15 years old in September of last year. The victim’s name has not been released so far due to legal reasons.

Police reports state that the crime came to light only after the alleged victim’s mother reported Gregory to the authorities after the baby was born and said that her son knew he was the newborn’s father.

TERRIBLE: 27-Year-Old Man Rapes Girlfriend’s 8-Month-Old Daughter (PICTURED)

A man was arrested after he raped and hurt a baby. 

27-year-old Julio Iturralde of Albuquerque, New Mexico,
is accused of locking his girlfriend out of their hotel room before raping her 8-month-old daughter.

US Set Troops Ready To Release Chibok Girls

United States troops may be deployed in the search for the over 200 abducted secondary school girls in Chibok, Borno State, it was learnt yesterday.

A US Congressional delegation made up of Representatives Steve Stockman, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Frederica Wilson and Lois Frankel, told a news conference at the Unity Fountain in Abuja yesterday that the US planned to take action.

Stockman said: “We get briefed by the military and pending the approval of the government of Nigeria and our government, we plan to take action but I don’t think we are going into specifics this time; it was a classified briefing. We stand ready to help and as soon as our government and Nigerian government approve, we will take action.”

In the meantime, US is helping Nigeria to train its military.

Jackson-Lee said: “What I want to say is that I think what it is right now is to work with the Nigerian government in training of the military. I want to emphasise again here that we have come all these miles to say that our Congress stands ready to cooperate with the government in a manner that is appropriate and with the consent of Nigerian government. And I want to emphasise the need for the Victims Relief Fund because there is so much suffering going on by the young girls and the families that have been touched by this violence.”

Lagos Alerts Residents To More Rainfall, Calls For Calm

Residents of the nation’s commercial nerve centre – Lagos State – have been alerted to coming downpours which will be accompanied with occasional thunderstorm.

The Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, who gave the alert in a statement on Sunday, added that there would also be occasional flash flood on some roads around the state.

He, however, advised residents not to panic, saying it was normal to have pools of water on the road whenever it rained consistently in a city like Lagos.

Mr. Bello also advised residents to stay off the roads if they do not have serious cause to go out in order not to be caught in a gridlock.

Bello said, “Whenever it rains heavily across the state, there is a rise in the Lagoon and ocean, which automatically locks up all the canals in the state. When the water in the ocean and Lagoon recedes, our canals will discharge into these water bodies.

“The after effect is that it takes a long time before water discharges into the Lagoon as well as the time it eliminates all backflows.

“However, it is pertinent to explain that water on the road after continuous rainfall is not flooding, but flash flood, which will definitely disappear in a matter of time because our canals are already functional.

“Lagosians are advised not to panic, but go about their business activities as our canals are regularly cleaned and maintained to contain storm water generated during the rains.

“But we advise our people, if possible, to stay off the roads when they don’t have a very serious cause to do so, in order not to be caught in the after-rain gridlock”.

World Naked Bike Ride Generates Controvesy

Portland is a city that celebrates the unusual and the bizarre, but apparently not the unclothed.

On June 8, the city hosts the World Naked Bike Ride starting at 10 p.m., where, as the name states, bikers ride the streets wearing nothing but helmets and shoes.

Rides will take place in more than 74 cities in 17 different countries, but Portland organizers hope to get more than 8,000 naked people to participate.

It's all in the name of protesting against the oil-based economy and the vulnerability cyclists face on the road, according to the event website.

The butt-baring bike ride is arousing strong reactions from Portland locals like Cathy Goertz, who hasn’t been a fan of past naked protests in the city. She called police last year after she and her husband, Joe, were stuck between a bevy of nude commuters near the downtown waterfront.

This year’s ride is starting in her neighborhood, and she’s trying to call attention to possible problems.

Shooter on the loose after killing 3 officers in New Brunswick, Canada

Police in New Brunswick scoured overnight for a man they say fatally shot three of their officers and wounded two others in the Canadian province.

"Shooter still believed to be in Pinehurst Subdivision area of Moncton. Stay locked inside. Leave outdoor lights on," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in New Brunswick tweeted early Thursday morning.

Police sent other warnings Wednesday night to those in Moncton, a city of just over 100,000 people some 90 miles (150 kilometers) northeast of St. John and 150 miles north of Halifax.

"Stay safe. Motorist stay away from area," another tweet read.

FG To Explore All Options To Secure Release Of Chibok Girls

The Federal Government on Wednesday said “all options’’, including negotiation, are open to free the abducted Chibok schoolgirls.

The Coordinator of the National Information Centre, Mr Mike Omeri, made this known when he gave an update on the security operations in the North-East at a joint news conference in Abuja.

“The Federal Government is totally committed and focused towards ensuring that our beloved children, kidnapped girls, are returned safe and sound.

“Therefore, as we said before, all options in line with international best practices are open in this case,’’ Omeri said.

He said government had distributed relief materials to communities affected by the insurgency in the North-East as well as Jos through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

According to him, efforts are ongoing to reach victims also affected by the insurgency in other states.

Omeri appealed to members of the public, spirited individuals and corporate organisations, to come to the aid of victims of the insurgency through NEMA.

Police Arraign LASU Protesters Before Court

Police yesterday arraigned eight protesting students of the Lagos State University (LASU), who were arrested by the Police on Tuesday before an Ikeja chief magistrate’s court for alleged breach of public peace.

The students were docked before Magistrate Eniola Fabanwo for conducting themselves in a manner likely to cause breach of public peace.

Moments after the charges were read to them by the court registrar, they all pleaded not guilty to the one count offence.

The five male and three female students arraigned are Bolarinwa Olamide (male, 23 ), Oludare Samuel Olayinka (male, 18), Oni Victoria (female, 18), Fatukasi Timilehin (male, 19) and Babatunde Bolarinwa (male, 24).

Others are Ajayi Taiwo (female, 24 ), Olatimihan Taiwo (female, 20) old and Akani Segun (male, 27).

House Orders N225m Bullet-Proof Cars Returned To Supplier

The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation, yesterday, ordered the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to return the controversial N225 million bullet-proof cars that were purchased during the tenure of former Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Oduah, and recover the money.

Chairman of the committee, Nkiruka Chidubem Onyejeocha, said NCAA have no business keeping the cars, stressing that the contract terms between NCAA and Coscharis Motors should be cancelled and the money recovered from the supplier.

Onyejeocha made this call while on an oversight visit to the agencies at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.

“What we said about the bullet proof cars is that the contract should be cancelled and that they do not have any business keeping the cars. It should be returned to the supplier and then recover our money,” she said, adding that due process was not followed in the contract.

Earlier, the acting Director-General of NCAA, Engr. Benedict Adeliyela, said that the cars were parked at the NCAA’s office in Abuja.

Cameroon’s Military Kills 60 Boko Haram Members

Cameroon’s state radio reported that the country’s military has killed at least 60 Boko Haram members who crossed over from Nigeria seeking refuge.

According to the national radio, the heavily-armed militants, reportedly killed in the village of Dabanga in far Northern Cameroon, crossed over from Borno State. They were then ambushed by Cameroonian soldiers, the report said.

Fonka Awah, governor of the far north region of Cameroon, said his office had received information that some Boko Haram members might be hiding in Cameroonian villages, and asked for specialized troops to be deployed.

He told the Voice of America, VOA that the military had done a good job.

“Of course yes, without mincing words, after such a situation, you reassemble the forces and map out strategies, you galvanize them and put them back into action and I think that is what we have just done,” he said.

19 Allegedly Abused Horses, 14 Snakes Rescued [GRAPHIC PHOTO]

A Florida couple face more than 90 charges after police say they severely neglected a slew of animals on their farm in Lakeland, Florida. One emaciated horse died while a vet was tried saving it.

Jacob Caudy, 28, and Emily Cowper, 24, were arrested on Monday, according to a news release from Polk County Sheriff’s Office, that accused them of depriving food from horses and other animals in their care.

The pair had been under investigation since late April, when Polk County deputies discovered an emaciated horse named Dixie Boy on the farm.

California woman Anita Tucker had been paying to Cowper and Caudy since 2011 to care for Dixie Boy, but deputies say they found the 9-year-old thoroughbred in skeletal condition and confined without food or water.

Rihanna Attends Fashion Show Completely ‘NAKED’ In Most Risque Outing Yet [PHOTOS, NUDITY]

Sometimes celebrities get their outfits so very, very wrong. You know, so wrong that they make us inadvertently shrink, or shriek, or just yell at them.

It’s those moments that make us go “oh honey, you shouldn’t have. How could you?”

There’s no debating the fact that Rihanna is a beautiful sexy lady, but her shiny custom-made shear embellished halter dress by Adam Selman is a little too risqué.

The singer entered the venue for the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards on Monday, June 1, 2014 and jaws dropped.