Tag: Explosions
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BREAKING: Several explosions rock Maiduguri communities
Four different explosives have rocked communities in Maiduguri in the early hours of Saturday destroying a building and wounding a boy in the process. According to eyewitnesses, the explosions started very early with the first two exploding at Gomari airport and the third one landing in a building at one thousand housing estate near Hajj…
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Explosions: Ogun Govt bans industrial gas sale to retailers, seals two plants
The Ogun State government on Friday, placed an indefinite ban on sale of industrial gas to retailers as well as technicians who specialised in repairing of air conditioners as well as refrigerators across the state. This is just as the state’s Taskforce also sealed off two gas factories and a sale outlet in Abeokuta metropolis…
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BREAKING: Panic as gunshots, heavy explosions rock Maiduguri
Information reaching TheNewsGuru.com, TNG has it that there was panic in Maiduguri, the Borno State Capital on Tuesday as multiple gunshots and explosions rocked some communities. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the explosion is coming hours after military troops successfully recaptured Marte and cleared its environs from ISWAP/Boko Haram terrorists. According to a report by PRNigeria…
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Baruwa: Sanwo-Olu heaps blames of incessant explosions on gas plant operators
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has vowed to impose stiffer measures against gas plants operators in the state in a bid to avert needless loss of lives and properties in the State. Eight people were burnt to death, with properties worth several millions of naira destroyed at Baruwa area of Lagos where another gas explosion…
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Three killed in twin bomb explosions
Three persons were killed and three others injured on Tuesday in two coordinated roadside bomb explosions in a town in Iraq’s central province of Salahudin, a provincial police source said. The first roadside bomb went off before the mid-day near a drinking water facility in the town of Shirqat, some 280 km north of the…
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Explosion hits military unit, kills two soldiers
An explosion struck a military unit in Azerbaijan on Saturday, leaving two soldiers killed and another one injured, the country’s Defense Ministry said. “In the morning of July 6, an incident occurred at one of the military units. “Two soldiers … were killed as a result of the explosion of a tank shell,” the ministry…
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Army claim responsibility for multiple explosions in Maiduguri
…says shots fired to scare Boko Haram The Army explained that the multiple sound of controlled-gun fire on Saturday morning heard in the outskirts of Maiduguri, was for “security calculations”. The Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa said in a statement that the gun fire was not targeted at the public. Musa…
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BREAKING: Multiple explosions rock Maiduguri on elections day
There was pandemonium on Saturday morning in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital as series of explosions rocked the city all within ten minutes. The explosions, seven of them, began at around 5:50am and ended a little around 6am. Residents are worried about their safety, especially with the presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled to begin…
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Fuel-tank explosions rock area near Cairo international airport
An explosion at a chemical plant in Cairo late Thursday rocked the city’s nearby international airport. High temperatures caused fuel storage tanks at the Heliopolis Chemical Industries facility to explode, a spokesman for Egypt’s army said after the incident. The spokesman added that the explosion was not terrorism-related. Egypt’s minister for civil aviation said the…
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Suit on Buhari’s health assigned to judge
A suit seeking an order of the Federal High Court in Abuja to compel the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to appoint a medical panel to determine the health status of ailing President Muhammadu Buhari has been assigned. The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/508/2017 has been assigned to Justice Abdukadir Abdu-Kafarati. It was filed by a United…