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  • Sad! Many feared k!lled as NAF jet reportedly bombed civilian populace in Kaduna

    Sad! Many feared k!lled as NAF jet reportedly bombed civilian populace in Kaduna

    Many villagers are feared dead following a bomb reportedly dropped by a Nigerian Air Force jet during a Maulud celebration at Tudun Biri, a community within Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

    Though details of the incident remain sketchy, preliminary reports indicate that about 30 people died during the incident on Sunday,December 3, around 9:00 pm.

    Residents told a national daily that the bomb struck while the villagers gathered to commemorate Maulud in the village.

    “They were celebrating Maulud (birth of Prophet Muhammad) when the jet dropped the bomb, resulting in the immediate death of more than 30 people,” a resident said.

    There is apprehension that the death toll may increase.

    When reached for comment, Samuel Aruwan, Overseeing Commissioner of the State Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, did not provide casualty figures, stating that the government would address the media in a press conference at the Government House.

    “We will address the press at Government House on the situation because there would be a security meeting later. So, let’s meet by 10 am,” he said.

    NAF has also yet to speak on the incident as of press time.

  • World War II bomb safely detonated in Germany

    World War II bomb safely detonated in Germany

    A World War II bomb found in Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel District has been defused.

    Police announced on Twitter early on Tuesday that the area, a shopping district popular with tourists, was safe again.

    Two partial detonations were necessary for the defusing.

    “The second partial blast was successful. The bomb has been defused. Measures are now being successively scaled back. We wish you a good night,” police tweeted.

    According to the fire brigade, about 5,000 people within a radius of 300 metres around the site were evacuated.

    The airspace above the site of the discovery was closed, and several sub-urban train stations were temporarily shut.

    An emergency shelter was set up in the nearby district of St. Pauli.

    The bomb, dropped by the British Air Force in the 1940s, was found during construction work near the Sternschanze light rail station.

    Residents on the perimeter of the evacuated area were advised to avoid windows and stay in rooms facing away from the site.

    This was the second unexploded World War II bomb found in Hamburg within two weeks.

    Earlier this month, a British bomb was discovered in Wilhelmsburg during excavation work.

  • Bomb blast kills mother, 5 children

    Bomb blast kills mother, 5 children

    Official on Monday reported that five children along with their mother were killed in a grenade bomb blast in Afghanistan’s central province of Ghor.

    Abdulhai Zaeem, the provincial director of information and culture, told dpa that the incident happened on Sunday in the provincial capital Firozkoh city, when the children were playing with a hand grenade inside their house.

    Zaeem said unexploded military supplies left from decades of war often cause casualties among children in Afghanistan.

    According to the director, on Friday, two children were killed and two others wounded when they were hit by an unexploded mortar shell in Logar province. The children were collecting firewood when the incident happened.

    The United Nations data showed that at least 118,443 people were killed as a result of armed conflict in the country since December 2008, when the UN started the official recording of civilian casualties.

  • Police reacts to report of bombs planted in FCT

    Police reacts to report of bombs planted in FCT

    The Police on Saturday in Abuja dismissed reports in some sections of the media that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was saturated with explosive bombs.

    A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said the report was fake and urged Nigerians to disregard it.

    “It is surprising and disheartening to read in the news and on social media that bombs are being planted in every area of the FCT.

    “It is unfortunate that the report is even coming from some individuals who are presumed to be peace ambassadors and patriotic agents of national unity.

    “I don’t think it will do our country any good to continually spread such fearful rumours to further create more panic to citizens and residents of the FCT and Nigeria at large,” he said.

    According to him, FCT is safe and there is no imminent threat, neither is the FCT being saturated with bombs as speculated in the news.

    He, therefore, urged FCT residents and Nigerians at large to disregard the news as fake.

    Adejobi said the news was purportedly sponsored to create fear in people and heat up the polity.

    He said the police would continue to adopt all effective operational strategies to decimate the activities of non-state actors and other criminal elements in the country.

  • NRC suspends rail activities along the Abuja-Kaduna route

    NRC suspends rail activities along the Abuja-Kaduna route

    The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has temporarily suspended its service along the Abuja-Kaduna route, due to unforeseen circumstances.

    NRC, via its official Twitter page on Tuesday morning, made the announcement.

    Recall that the Abuja-Kaduna train, with passengers onboard, was attacked by terrorists on Monday night.

    The gunmen were said to have blown up the rail track, forcing the 1000-capacity train to derail around Rijana, a village on the rail corridor in Kaduna.

    The statement read: “Dear passengers, due to unforeseen circumstances, Train operations along the Abuja-Kaduna route has been temporarily suspended.

    “Further Communication would be given in due course.”

  • BREAKING: Terrorists bomb Kaduna-Abuja train, 970 trapped

    BREAKING: Terrorists bomb Kaduna-Abuja train, 970 trapped

    AKaduna-bound train on Monday was attacked by suspected terrorists after explosives believed to be planted on the rail track went off around Katari area of the State.

    According to reports reaching TheNewsGuru.com, the 6pm train which took off from Idu Train Station at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) hit an explosive device about 30 minutes to Rigasa train station in Kaduna.

    Former senator, Shehu Sani wrote on his Twitter handle: to confirm the report, ‘Villagers along Abuja-Kaduna road called to confirm hearing multiple gunshots and attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train by terrorists’.

    There are said to be about 970 passengers trapped in the train.

    Unconfirmed reports indicate that the terrorists immediately surrounded the train, shooting sporadically.

    There are indications that a combined team of military personnel have been dispatched to the spot and efforts to rescue the passengers are on going.

    Phone calls to the Transportation minister and the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation went unanswered as at press time

    Details to follow…

  • Just In: Gunmen bomb police headquarters, free detainees in Imo

    Just In: Gunmen bomb police headquarters, free detainees in Imo

    Gunmen on Thursday bombed the Ideato South Local Government Area Police Headquarters in Dikenafai, Imo State.

    They freed the detainees.

    The hoodlums, who came in large numbers, set part of the police station ablaze with explosive devices.

    The explosives destroyed the administrative office, the Divisional Police Officer’s office, and the reception desk.

    Chairman of Ideato South LGA Interim Management Committee, Pastor Bede Ikeaka, expressed shock at the incident.

    Imo Police Command spokesman, Michael Abattam, a Chief Superintendent of Police, said he was yet to be briefed.

    He promised to get back to our correspondent.

    It was learnt that some of the detainees have been caught by a local vigilante group.

  • Four footballers killed in Somalia explosion

    Four footballers killed in Somalia explosion

    Four local footballers in Somalia were killed when an explosion believed to have been caused by a bomb ripped through their bus on Friday, police and witnesses said.

    Ten players from the Jubaland Chamber of Commerce and Industry club were heading off for a game at the Kismayo city stadium in southern Somalia when the blast hit.

    “The players were riding in a bus when the explosion went off, presumably inside the vehicle. There are investigations going on but we presume the device was planted onto the bus,” said police officer Mohamed Sadiq.

    He said four football players were killed and five others wounded.

    “The blast was huge and it caused devastating fire which burned down the bus, people rushed to remove the dead bodies and wounded players,” said witness Ibrahim Ahmed.

    “I saw the burning bus and three dead bodies of the players — this was horrible because football players are not politicians,” added another witness, Said Adan.

    There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in Kismayo, capital of the southern state of Jubaland which borders Kenya.

  • Patients evacuated after bomb discovered in hospital

    Patients evacuated after bomb discovered in hospital

    A university hospital in the German city of Bonn evacuated 200 patients on Thursday after a wartime bomb was discovered on the grounds, a hospital spokesperson said.

    Among the patients evacuated were 11 people suffering from Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, who had been receiving intensive care treatment.

    Most patients were accommodated in other parts of the university hospital, some were transferred to other hospitals.

    The defusing of the five-ton bomb from the Second World War took place in the afternoon.

    “All closures have been lifted,” a city spokesman said afterwards.

    Almost 1,200 residents had also had to leave their homes.

    The wartime ordnance was discovered on Wednesday during construction work – a relatively common occurrence in German cities, even today.

    Around 650 people haven’t been required to evacuate, were ordered not to leave their buildings while bomb disposal experts were at work.

  • Insecurity: Any nation without right policing is sitting on a time bomb – Reps’ Police C’ttee Chairman

    Insecurity: Any nation without right policing is sitting on a time bomb – Reps’ Police C’ttee Chairman

    Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs, Hon Usman Bello Kumo on Thursday said any nation that does not have the right police in place is sitting squarely on a time bomb.

    Kumo who spoke barely two days after a public hearing on how to make the police optimally deliver its duties organized by his committee noted that:
    “Any nation that cannot get its police correct that nation might not necessarily survive because it is the police responsibility to do the civil function of policing the people

    “And if you allow society to live in lawlessness, there will be no institution that can mediate them (people) so there will be no direction.

    “So every reasonable, responsive, sensitive government would first of all ensure that the properties and live of the citizens is secure and how do you do that, somebody somewhere has to police them.

    Asked whether the Nigerian Police can really police Nigerians, Kumo said they are not. If today, God forbid, if all the criminals put together can strike at once in this country they will overrun all the Nigerian security outfits.

    “If you are having problem in Benue state you will now say you re-enforce then they will now move to Kaduna and then to Zamfara, you are moving the same people. So assuming you get them correct, you see the arrays of youths in the country today.

    “In a nation that you have ministry of planning, what are they planning, you should be focusing, and anything planning is futuristic. So sit down, focus what are you doing with this youths, what will likely happen to them in the next 10years and you are now waging a global war.

    “These young men their brain is on another frequency but they are already connected to the global activities and you are not doing anything about them, you are sitting on a time bomb.