Boko Haram Bomb blast creeps to center of capital (Abuja)

Boko Haram Bomb blast creeps to center of capital (Abuja)

There was a bomb blast at a shopping center in Wuse 2 in downtown Abuja.

According to the police, 21 persons were killed.

While no group has claimed responsibility, the Nigerian media (and everybody else) points to Boko Haram, the Islamist insurrection, as the most likely perpetrator.

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Overpass collapses in World Cup host city, Brazil

 An unfinished overpass being built for the World Cup collapsed in Brazil‘s southeastern city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 19.



Globo television images showed the front of a yellow bus crushed under a large stretch of the fallen highway, which is about five kilometers (three miles) from the city’s World Cup stadium and was

being built as part of delayed infrastructure improvements for the tournament.
“It was like an earthquake. The ground shook violently,” Daniel Magalhaes, who was near the site at

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Nigerian Finance Minister admits bad Communication over Missing Girls

Chat212 Reporting...
By Mick Krever, CNN

The Nigerian government did not adequately communicate with the press about the nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala admitted to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.

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Abducted Chibok Girls: Gordon Brown wants UK troops in Nigeria

►A former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, has asked the British government to send troops to Nigeria to help secure the release of the abducted pupils of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.
►The girls, well over 200 of them, were kidnapped from their hostels on the night of April 14.

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Chibok girls: Gordon Brown wants UK troops in Nigeria

►A former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, has asked the British government to send troops to Nigeria to help secure the release of the abducted pupils of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

►The girls, well over 200 of them, were kidnapped from their hostels on the night of April 14.

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Patients Groan As Doctors’ Strike Bites Harder

Efforts by the Federal Government to end the strike embarked upon by the Nigerian Medical Association have failed to yield any result.

Consequently, consulting rooms in hospitals in Ilorin, Ibadan, Benin, Lagos, Jos, Calabar, Osogbo, Asaba, Enugu and Kaduna visited by our correspondents on Thursday were still bare as doctors refused to attend to patients.

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