Thieves beaten up by crowd for attempting to steal a car (Graphic Photo)

Caught In The Act This Hot Afternoon

They were caught trying to steal a Venza outside FCMB Rumumasi in Portharcourt....

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Photos Of Victims Of Borno Bomb Blast (Viewers Discretion)

These are victims of the bomb attack in Borno state who were lucky to survive the attack but not without horrific injuries. It is very graphic *be warned*... see them after the cut...






http://nigeriamirror.blogspot.com/2015/07/oh-my-god-very-graphic-photos-of.html

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Emirates Plane Collides With Hak-air Plane During Take-off At Lagos Airport

This happened yesterday at the Murtala Mohammed Airport 2 in Lagos. According to an eye witness, the left wing of the new Emirate Boeing 787 collided with the tail of Hak Air plane during take off. No casualty was reported.


http://www.lailasblog.com/2015/07/photo-emirates-aircraft-collides-with.html

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Graphic Photo Of The Kano State Female Sucide Bomber. (viewer's Discretion)

Pictured below is the suicide bomber who nearly attacked a mosque along Zaria road, Kano state before being stopped by people around. She was trying to cross over to the mosque, but she was stopped. She immediately detonated the bomb and died immediately. She was the only victim of the bomb blast...

Read the press release on the suicide bombing from the Nigeria police force;

At about 9:30pm today 06.07.2015, Police Team on duty around Aliyu bn Abi Talib Mosque, Dangi Roundabout ‪#‎Kano‬ prevented a female who tried to mingle with worshipers as they were coming out of the Mosque after prayers. The said female then blew herself up and died on the spot. No other casualty recorded. Scene secured by Police, investigation on going.

http://www.nationalhelm.com/2015/07/see-graphic-photo-of-kano-state-female.html

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'Buhari And The Demons In His Party' - Leadership

The All Progressives Congress appears to have given its enemies a stick to beat the party. For two weeks now, the governing party has been at war with itself over the sharing of offices. And it’s getting messier.


In a gesture of serial defiance, the Senate not only rejected the party’s choice of candidates for Senate president and deputy, it also rejected the party’s list for other principal officers. The gangrene has spread to the House.

For its part, the Peoples Democratic Party is simply beside itself in an Fun of mockery. Its officials cannot believe their worst wishes will come true so soon. They are quietly stoking the flames, anxious to regroup and seize the current crisis in the APC as their resurrection launch pad.

And what better way to start than for Ike Ekweremadu to get a foot in the door as deputy Senate president in a deal that has taken the PDP out of the ICU?

That’s politics. Yet it is precisely in an attempt to prevent the variety of renegade politics that beset the PDP four years ago – when Aminu Tambuwal defied his party – that the APC has refused to sweep the current crisis under the carpet.

There are those who have argued that the party should get over itself and move on. It’s futile to hope that either Ekweremadu or Senate President Bukola Saraki will step down at this point. So, why persist in a war of attrition that is depleting the party’s goodwill and distracting it from the urgent tasks at hand?

Those who pursue this line of argument insist that if Saraki was good enough to invest himself in APC’s election campaign, surely he cannot be unworthy of a post in the National Assembly, which he contested for and won according to the rules of the Senate.

As for his teaming up with Ekweremadu, what’s the big deal? What is the difference between both parties, anyway? And was the APC not in clandestine defection talks with Ekweremadu and co at some point after Buhari’s victory in March? What’s the party mad about?

The matter is not so cut and dried. To suggest that APC and PDP are one and the same thing is to insult voters who could no longer endure the travesty of the latter and decided that enough was enough.

PDP was not and cannot be like any other party. The party, especially under Jonathan, was simply incomparable in its capacity for mischief, stealing and impunity. It is a disservice to our collective memory to forget that so soon.

Those who insist on party discipline do so because they have seen the misery and devastation that former President Goodluck Jonathan’s weakness brought upon the PDP and, ultimately, the country. Also, in a country where merit often takes the back seat, zoning has become a makeshift formula for deciding who gets what.

Whatever threatens zoning rocks the boat. Saraki’s presumptive strike toppled the party’s consensus on zoning and sent a mixed signal about his company and future ambition.

That’s obviously one other reason why the party is finding it hard to move on. The party’s arrangement, which favoured the Lawan-Akume pair for the Senate and the Gbajabiamila-Monguno for the House, was based on the calculation that these candidates have modest ambitions.

The party had hoped that Lawan’s emergence would kill two birds with one stone: it would settle the feeling of marginalisation in the North East and stave off any serious challenge for the nation’s top job in 2019.

The unspoken fear of those strongly opposed to Saraki is not only that he still has PDP blood running in his veins, but that, perhaps more than any other ranking senator, the Senate presidency could help him secure a bid for the presidency in four years’ time, or position him as a rallying point for the resurgence of the PDP at some future date.



If some of these speculations sound irrational it is because irrationality is the currency of politics. Who would have believed, for example, that an unknown Yusuf Lasun would become deputy speaker of the House by surreptitiously putting himself up for the position while at the same time voting for his party’s candidate for that position? Or that Tambuwal would be named as backing the same rebellion that brought his former party to its knees?

The party has to move forward, not by running away from, but by confronting its demons. And it would be foolhardy to leave the job to state governors who barely have control of their legislators. The party leadership is, regrettably, also diminished both by this crisis and from the allegations of favouritism and corruption that preceded it. There is an appalling lack of confidence and honesty to tackle the problem.

Shutting Saraki out or living in denial of his presidency will not work. Someone must engage Saraki and tell him that he cannot defy the party one day, claim to be remorseful the next and then turn around to insist on sharing positions in the Senate almost exclusively on his own terms.

For example, Senator Ali Ndume’s bid for the post of leader of the Senate is obviously a reward by the pro-Saraki group for Ndume’s rebellion. It might seem the smart and politically expedient thing to do, but it opens Saraki’s sincerity to question, complicates the problem in the House and further damages the party. This is not helped by Ndume’s indictment in the nation’s topmost security challenge at the moment for which he is still facing prosecution.

The task of stopping the drift now falls squarely on Buhari’s shoulders. He cannot outsource or purchase it by avoiding Saraki. He has promised not to meddle – which is good, but I have said before that not meddling is not the same thing as playing the ostrich. APC desperately needs leadership.

Buhari must admit that his indifference – however well meaning – was just as counterproductive as Saraki’s ambition. He must engage him fair and square.

It’s been nearly 30 days in the quandary; that’s neither what Nigerians deserve nor voted for. Buhari, as president and leader of his party, must either use the carrot, the stick or both, to whip his party quickly into line.

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Fatal Accident Along Enugu/onitsha Expressway,one Dead,others Injured(Photos)

It is a sad day along Enugu/Onitsha road as a fatal accident involving a Toyota Camry and an Onitsha South bus left one person dead at the spot,with many severely injured.According to an eyewitness,the speeding Toyota Camry collided with the oncoming bus along Onitsha/Enugu expressway.

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The National Assembly Complex: A Closer Look (photos)

The National Assembly complex of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is an eye-catching architectural masterpiece that houses a bicameral legislature established under section 4 of the Nigerian Constitution consisting of a Senate and a 360-member House of Representatives. The body, scissored after the federal Congress of the United States, is designed to guarantee equal representation of the states irrespective of size in the Senate and proportional representation of population in the House. The National Assembly complex is located in the three arm zone of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. With its distinctive features and dome shaped roof, it is one of the architectural landmarks in the Nigeria capital city of Abuja. The symbolic complex was constructed by I.T.B. Nigeria Limited, part of the construction division of the Chagoury Group which was established in 1995. The construction company which has a growing demand for specialist, civil engineering services is one of the few civil engineering and construction firms whose head office and main operations are in Africa. The award of contract for the construction of the parliamentary edifice was made on February 18, 1996 by the Federal Capital Development Authority the prime consultants under the auspices of the Federal government of Nigeria with a contract sum of N7.0 billion. I.T.B Nigeria Limited was saddled with the responsibility of designing and constructing two chambers of the National Assembly Complex which comprises the House of Representatives and Senate, a Library, Restaurant, Offices and associated external works within a stipulated period of 30 months. The complex came to live in 1998 The National assembly complex was modeled after ‘The United States Capitol’, atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Capitol is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. Federal Government, completed in the year 1800. The National assembly complex consists of 40,000 square metres gross floor area of concrete structure for both the legislative and senatorial arm of the National assembly. The two chambers of the complex is serviced by a central atrium. The complex is composed of a large lobby with a dome at a height of 50 metres,and the two chambers for the house of representatives and Senators, accommodating 650 seats and 150 seats respectively. The extremely short construction period (30 months), made it necessary for ITB Nigeria limited to develop a construction system to meet the project deadline. The structural element was therefore a combination of insitu concrete and pre-cast elements. The internal partitions are in plastered and painted concrete block walls, with high quality profile aluminium glazed windows and doors. The ceiling is finished with acoustic suspended ceiling type while the floor is finished with a combination of vitrified tiles, marble tiles and granite tiles. The state-of-the-art mechanical and electrical installation includes a central air-conditioning system, fire fighting and fire detection system, access control systems and standby generators. The complex has been provided with a sophisticated voting system, sound distribution system, building management system and close circuit T.V. (CCTV). There are also meeting rooms, hearing rooms, committee rooms, single offices for elected members, and a clinic, library and printing room. The complex includes a 80,000 square metres ceremonial plaza, which can accommodate more than 1000 people at any one time. The dome of the National assembly- an ancient architectural adoption of developed countries has been a subject of controversy towing along religious lines. Atop the dome is the nation’s coat of arm. A dome (from Latin: domus) is an architectural element that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Even its precise definition has been a matter of controversy. Domes have a wide variety of forms and specialized terms to describe them. A dome can rest upon a rotunda or drum as it is with the dome of the National assembly complex. It can be supported by columns or piers, that transition to the dome through squinches or pendentives. A lantern may cover an oculus and may itself have another dome. Domes have a long architectural lineage that extends back into prehistory and they have been constructed from mud, stone, wood, brick, concrete, metal, glass, and plastic over the centuries. The symbolism associated with domes includes mortuary, celestial, and governmental traditions that have likewise developed over time. However, the dome of the National Assembly building complex has raised eye brows over the years as to its symbol. Some argue that it has Islamic affiliations though what seats atop the dome is the country’s coat of arm. That brings me to this question; Is the dome really a symbol of Islam? That’s a topic for another day. Senator Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara were yesterday elected as senate president and speaker of the upper and lower house of the country’s bicameral National assembly respectively.

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Shakirudeen Adewale Alade A.k.a Boneticsart, British Got Talent Contestant

Shakirudeen Adewale Alade is a contestant in the Britain's got talent 2015. See what he can do with his body.

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