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  30 persons were killed and 67 injured after two teenage female suicide bombers blew themselves up at Madagali Market in Adamawa on Friday morning. The spokesman of the 28th Task Force Battalion of the Army said two teen female suicide bombers sneaked into the bustling market and detonated themselves in the middle of it. In a statement issued by Mr Sani Datti, Head of Media and Public Relations, NEMA, in Abuja, NEMA confirmed that the victims had been evacuated to Michika General Hospital for treatment.

In an exclusive interview with BET, former Criminal Minds star, Shemar Moore opened up about his new feature film The Bounceback, love life, the backlash he faced from Toni Braxton for sharing details of their fling and also addressed the gay rumors that seem to have taken hold of his social media mentions. Read after the cut... Speaking of relationships, last time we spoke, you talked a little bit about your fling with Toni Braxton back in the day. She was upset by what you said. Do you have any regrets about that, and have you two spoken since? No, I haven't. I've seen her sister and her mother, and I don't regret ... The only thing I regret is that it was interpreted by her or whoever. I don't know to this day how she felt. I didn't mean anything maliciously. I never mean to offend anybody. I'm not above anybody. I'm grateful for my time with anybody that I've had a relationship with, because that's how I grow, that's

Muktar Umar was severely burnt in a fire disaster and is currently admitted at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) Zaria, for surgery...   Photo credit: Abdulmumin Suleiman

There was a gridlock Friday along the Abuja-Lokoja highway following the killing of an articulated vehicle driver by an unidentified soldier. Vehicles coming from the north states and others heading to the south were held for almost five hours as a result of the accident as trailer drivers blocked the boundary road between Kogi and Abuja, in protest. Eyewitness account had it that the incident occurred before the Jamata bridge in Koton-Karfi local government, when a trailer conveying cows from the Abuja axis was stopped by the solders at the check point. Source further said that an argument between one of the soldiers and the driver resulted into fracas. The eyewitnesses said one of the solder shot at the driver, killing him instantly. The military men it was gathered evacuated the checkpoint with their vehicle and escaped to avoid attack by the drivers who later barricaded the road with their trailers. Meanwhile the Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has

Female workers at a Russian emerald mine have complained about 'the harassment' during strip search checks to ensure they are not stealing valuable gems. The random naked searches involve women standing unclothed on a cold concrete floor, and can lead to 'intimate questions during check ups', allege staff. They were even threatened with intrusive examinations 'in a gynaecological chair' if they protested about the regime at Malyshevskoye emerald mine in the Ural Mountains, they claim. A group of women employees from the mine told local media: 'Hardest of all is the so called selective naked check up. 'It means that any of us can be selected in the middle of the working day and delivered to the naked check up room. 'It is a cold room with concrete floor and a cracked window. 'Women have to get completely undressed while every millimetre of their clothing is checked. 'If we complain about standing on the cold floor, their r

A family unwittingly uncovered an alleged human-trafficker after purchasing a cadaver from him. The family, from northern China, bought the corpse to bury with their dead son as a 'ghost bride'. But during the burial, they were shocked to hear noises coming from from the coffin. They opened up the box to discover that the victim, later found to be a deaf-mute woman who was trafficked to the area, was still alive. The incident took place in mid July but the details have only recently come to light according to the report. A family from Linzhou in north-east China had bought the female corpse for 30,000 Yuan (£3,448) to use as a 'ghost bride'. The tradition allows parents of men and women who died before they wed to be married after their death. In the ritual, two dead bodies are buried together to indicate a marriage has taken place. According to People's Daily, the family received the body of the woman, identified as Zhao Mei, on July 15. The

A drunk-in-love Nigerian couple, Ibiso and Olaniyi are trending online after deciding to take their pre-wedding shoot to a whole new level by imitating president Barack Obama and his lovely wife Michelle -ahead of their wedding . See some of their pre-wedding photos below;

This is the moment a prophet 'exorcises demons' from two teenage sisters who write and spasm as the evil spirits are apparently released. Footage captured in Ndikwe village in Murang'a County, central Kenya, shows highlights of an exorcist's six-hour ritual. The girls had reportedly been afflicted by a variety of symptoms over the past three months including loss of speech, attributed to the presence of demons inside them. One girl is shown screaming as villagers hold her down and another scene shows a girl swinging from a roof. The second sister is seen with a cloth wrapped across her eyes, writhing across the floor. Part of the process of removing the demons apparently involved squirting a fluid into one of the girls' mouths, as seen in the video. After the operation was deemed a success, a local chief told a television reporter that he was pleased with the prophet who carried out the exorcism. He told the assembled crowd: 'Remain faith

Former Jigawa State governor, Saminu Turaki welcomes his new baby into the world with wife, Ameena Fodio. The proud father shared the photograph of his cute baby. Photo-credit; OakTv

Hundreds of migrants from Africa have stormed a border fence to enter Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, the authorities say. According to the AFP news agency, it is the biggest group in a decade to succeed in making it over into the fenced city bordering Morocco in search of asylum. A Spanish interior ministry official said two police officers and three migrants suffered cuts and bruises in the early morning crossing, the Associate Press news agency reports. Images showed migrants crossing the fence and celebrating after achieving their aim.

A 21-year-old German girl recently donated her "panda blood", or Rh-negative blood, on two occasions to save a 75-year-old woman in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China. Christa Maria Idel, a language student at Zhejiang University, came to China to study for one semester, adopting the Chinese name Gao Xiongmao. When she found out that her blood type is Rh-negative, she called herself Xiongmao, the Chinese name for panda. She is 1.75 meters tall, so she surnamed herself Gao, which means tall in Chinese. "I was told that only 0.3 percent of the population in China have 'panda blood'. The proportion in some Western countries is as high as 6 percent or higher. This was news to me," she said. Out of curiosity, Gao searched on Weibo to find out more information about the blood type. She found a post asking for help from the family of an old woman who suffers from aplastic anemia and fainted in October. She left a message on the post and a docto

A self acclaimed online pastor and media personality, Siboniso Trustees Matitsa, has been trending for days now after sharing his opinion on different sex styles. According to him, those who practice other styles other than the popular missionary style are going to hell and that men should always be on top when having sex because they are the head of the home. Read what he shared below; The Bible says, husbands must love their wives as Christ has loved the Church. Listen, if you doing those pornographic sex positions on your wife, you don't love her. You treating her like a mere sexual object. You are not having sex, but masturbating. Why are you copying the devil? Christ loves the Church so much that He died for her. Did Christ ever copy anything from the devil? Why are you copying demon inspired sex positions and doing them on your wife? There is one exceptable sex position, missionary style. Remember, the man is the head, and therefore he should lead in bed

Dare devil armed robbers this morning raided a First Bank office situated in Amaraku, Imo state. They reportedly carted away millions of Naira. More photos after the cut. Photo credit: Abia Facts Newspaper

One Direction pop star, Louis Tomlinson, has lost his mum, 42-year-old Johannah Deakin, to leukaemia. Ms. Deakin who was diagnosed with the disease earlier this year, died in the morning of Wednesday, 7th Dec. Her family have released a statement to this effect. The statement read:  “It is with immeasurable sadness that Johannah Deakin’s family said goodbye to Johannah in the early hours of Wednesday 7th December 2016. Earlier this year Johannah was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of leukaemia that required immediate and continuous treatment. We respectfully request that the family are given time and space to grieve in private.” Dan Deakin, husband of the deceased eulogised his late wife, stating that she was an amazing mother to all her children, a wonderful grandmother to her grandchild and a selfless woman who immersed herself in service to others. "Johannah was first and foremost a truly amazing mother to seven children whose individual tale

Some Twitter users took offence at a woman who was re-evaluating her life’s choices on the social medium platform and one of them took her anger further by reporting the woman to her husband. A number of her followers have defended her tweets, saying it is normal for every individual to re-evaluate their lives every now and then and that the only difference between the rest and the poster was that she made hers public. Well, the tattler reported in vain because the woman’s husband, who is also on Twitter, saw no wrong in his wife’s post and posted tweets to defend her, saying “It’s not that serious.”. See her tweets and his reply below...