KANO BOMB BLASTS: 15 dead, 57 critically injured!

                     
Multiple deaths have been recorded in the suicide attack on Kano GSM market this evening. Two female suicide bombers reportedly walked into the populated market and detonated bombs strapped to their bodies. The Kano State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Katsina, who confirmed the number of casualties, said 10 people died on the spot while 5 others died at the hospital. 57 others are said to be critically injured.
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Female Sergeant arrested for selling baby

                        

A female sergeant identified as Obotie Adesuwa, attached to the Akinpelu Division in Lagos is currently cooling her heels in custody of the X-Squad Section of the State Police Command, for allegedly selling a one week-old baby brought with his mother to the police station.

It was learnt that the baby boy and his mother identified as Toyin, who is allegedly mentally unstable, were brought to the police station, where Adesuwa is attached to.

A kind-hearted person was said to have brought the baby and his mother to the station after Toyin delivered the baby in a psychiatric hospital.

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source: Daily Post

BENIN: APC youths clash with revenue colectors, 20 injured

No fewer than 20 persons were yesterday injured at the Oredo Secretariat and Ring road, Benin City, Edo State following a ‘bloody clash’ that ensued between two revenue-collecting groups in the Local Government.

Vanguard reports that the clash which started at about 11:30 am saw youths armed with cutlasses at the Ring road area and the Oredo Council secretariat. The alleged clash is said to be between those authorized to collect revenue in the council area and some youths suspected to be members of All Progressives Congress, APC, who claimed to have the authority of the state government to take over revenue collection in the council.

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Man, 25, rapes cousin, 15

Asimiu Adebayo, a 25-year-old unemployed man,  was on Wednesday remanded in prison by a Lagos Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja for allegedly defiling his 15-year-old cousin.

The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, ordered that the suspect be remanded in Kirikiri prison, Apapa, over the alleged rape.

Adebayo, who resides with the father of the victim at Moricas, Agege area of the state is standing trial a one-count charge of defilement.

Earlier, the prosecuting officer, Sgt. Jimah Iseghede, told the court that the suspect committed the crime on November 12.

Iseghede told the court that a neighbour who heard the screaming of the girl peeped through the window and saw the accused raping the girl.

“She then alerted the other tenants and the accused was apprehended,” he said.

According to the prosecutor, the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

When the charge was read, Adebayo pleaded not guilty.

The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias ordered that the accused be remanded in prison while adjourning the case till November 25, for ruling on his bail application.

Man kills four of his children and attempts suicide

A middle aged man (name withheld), on Wednesday in Kaduna reportedly slaughtered four of his children and attempted to kill himself.

Neighbours said that the man had quarrelled with his wife throughout the night, forcing her to leave the house located on Ahmadu Bello Way in Kawo area of Kaduna metropolis.

Thereafter, the man allegedly locked the entrance to the house and used a knife to slaughter the four children aged between one to six years.

One of his children, who was not in the house at the time, alerted the ward head of the area, when he found the door to the residence locked from inside.

When the neighbours and some police officers went into the house, the children were already dead while their father was still alive but in critical condition.

Kaduna State Police Command Public Relation Officer, Zubairu Abubakar, said that the man and the children have been conveyed to St Gerard’s General Hospital in Kakuri, Kaduna.

He said that the police had commenced full investigation into the matter.

source: Daily Post

Over speeding vehicle kills highway LAWMA staff

                              

An employee of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, was Wednesday reportedly killed when a fast approaching vehicle knocked her off the Third Mainland Bridge.

Daily Post reported that the accident occurred at about 11 am behind Kam Salem House, the Police Headquarters annex at the Obalende.

Eyewitnesses said that the victim, simply identified as Bisi by her colleagues, was flung into the air and thrown over the bridge to the ground when one of the vehicle's tyre deflated.

The driver of the vehicle, alleged to be military personnel, was said to be over speeding when his tyre deflated and the vehicle somersaulted severally.

It was learnt that the unconscious military personnel was taken to the nearby Military Hospital in Ikoyi in a tricycle.

An official of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority, LASTMA, speaking anonymously, confirmed that the owner of the Peugeot 407 car was on speed when the incident occurred.

The corpse, as at press time, was covered with cellophane wrapping and cloth while her colleagues awaited their managers to arrive the scene of the accident.

NUDE PHOTOTS: 'Slut Walk' protest against sexual violence.

                      
The streets of Rio de Janeiro were filled with unclad women who were determined to address claims by some that women provoke attacks by the way they dress or act. They also wanted to fight against proposed new abortion restrictions which, if passed, would mean a woman who was raped could only have a termination if she could prove the crime. 

One of the protesters, Indara Costa, 18, said: "Men in Brazil think we are objects. We want to be able to do what we want with our bodies without being harassed." Stephanie Ruas, 26, said: "We may face violence anywhere. At school, as a young girl, at work - that's the culture. "Brazil is one of the worst places for a woman to travel alone. When I travel I bring a special door jam so that my hotel room cannot be opened."

The protesters said a woman is killed every two hours in Brazil which they claim makes it the fifth most dangerous country for females.