Murder of Israeli teens- Israel's air force launches attack on Gaza Strip!

Israel's air force reportedly launched strikes on dozens of targets in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, this is coming hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that “Hamas will pay” for the murders of three Israeli teens.

The bodies of the youths identified as Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, a 16-year-old with dual Israeli-American citizenship, were found Monday just north of Hebron in the West Bank, and led to outpourings of grief and rage in the Jewish State, after they disappeared on June 12 while hitchhiking home.

According to Israeli information, two well-known Hamas operatives from Hebron, Amer Abu Aisheh, 33, a locksmith, and Marwan Qawasmeh, 29, a barber, are the primary suspects. 

It was gathered that the suspects have not been seen since the teens disappeared, and military officials said the search for them would continue.

Israeli soldiers blew up a door of Abu Aisheh's home in Hebron early Tuesday, causing damage to the home, but did not destroy the rest of the house, said an Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity due to protocol. He did not elaborate. Flames were seen after the blast.

Reacting to the incident, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was quoted as saying at a hastily arranged security cabinet meeting Monday. "(The teens) were kidnapped and murdered in cold blood by animals,"  

He continued..."In the name of the whole of Israel, I ask to tell the dear families - to the mothers, the fathers, the grandmothers and the grandfathers, the brothers and sisters - our hearts are bleeding, the whole nation is crying with them."

President Goodluck Jonathan signs the Pension Reform Bill, 2014 into law!

Coming on the heels of the Senate's passage of the Pension Reform Act 2014 that officially accommodates employees of private firms in the contributory pension scheme.

Information just getting in says President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the Pension Reform Bill, 2014 into law. The new law repeals the Pension Reform Act, No 2, 2004, making it possible for employees in either the public service of the Federation, Federal Capital Territory, States or Local Government and private sector, to receive pension benefits as and when due.

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Ozumba Mbadiwe end of the Falomo/ Victorian Island link bridge calling for attention!

This is under the Ozumba Mbadiwe end of the Falomo / Victoria Island link bridge, an obscure small part, almost hidden by fence. 



It is clearly a far cry from the state of beauty and excellence that surrounds it, and a fast becoming a nest for hoodlums.

A glance at it clearly suggests that it is calling for urgent attention.

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The Foundation of the Union was based On lies and Deceit- Uche Ogbodo on failed relationship!

Sultry Nollywood actress Uche Ogbodo in a recent interview with blogger Stella Dimoko confirmed that her relationship with an alledged Norway based ex footballer identified simply as Ato had hit the rocks.

According to the interview, heavily pregnant Uche who is in the United States to birth, said that the engagement which was supposed to culminate into marriage was unfortunately severed based on irreconcilable differences.

Engagement Picture of the couple below:

See part of the interview below:

-Hello Uche,i have a few quick questions for you.I heard your barely a year old marriage has crashed,is this true?

 .. Well that may be true but what isn't true is that it wasn't really marriage yet because it wasn't fully formalised, we were still in the process of formalising it when all hell broke loose, so I was merely Engaged to be married to Ato Ubby.    

It was just an introduction? why didn't you clear that impression all this while?

I just felt there was no need to do so because the wedding plans was to follow shortly,unfortunately it didn't because things didn't work out the way it should. I walked into a no-win situation.

What happened? 

This is really a hard question to answer, but all I can say Is that barely one month into the Engagement and in the process of planning a formal wedding I realised I had made the greatest mistake of my life.The Foundation of the Union was based On lies and Deceit..shocking lies.we had been dating for a almost year and i thought i knew it all but nothing prepared me for what unfolded.

Is he married already?

...No,he isnt married to anyone else 

You got pregnant in the process?

On the verge of trying to salvage the situation I found out I was expecting a child. I kept quiet to the Rumours Making the rounds because I was left with the option of thinking for my child and trying to salvage a dead situation but now I have finally made up my mind to break off the Engagement and my Reasons are Irreconcilable...

Police officer allegedly killed while trying to prevent bomber!

Reports from the Punch news says a Policeman was allegedly killed on Wednesday while trying to prevent the bomber from driving into the Emab plaza, Abuja to wreck maximum havoc and increase the casualty rate.

It was gathered that the Policeman who apparently saved thousands from being killed, was said to have stopped the driver of the bomb-laden car from driving into the plaza when he attempted to jump the queue of cars that were driving into the plaza. A Policeman at the scene informed our correspondent on Thursday, that the unidentified Policeman later chased after the vehicle and was about catching up with it when a loud blast ripped through the car and killed the bomber and the policeman by the exit gate. ”The bomber attempted to drive into the plaza in order to cause maximum damage and kill a lot of people. He however aroused the suspicion of a policeman who was nearby and the policeman prevented him from driving into the plaza and as he was driving away, he followed him but within a few seconds, the car exploded at the plaza’s exit gate killing the Policeman and the bomber.” he said

However, this story could not be ascertained as the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, said he was not aware, but he noted that it would be investigated.

It was also reported that some commercial banks situated around the vicinity have agreed to provide CCTV footage of the incident to security agencies to assist them in their investigation of the blast.

Nigeria’s government denies latest Boko Haram mass abduction claims!

News reaching our desk reveals that the Nigeria’s government on Wednesday denied claims that Boko Haram militants abducted 60 women and children from the country’s restive northeast, saying there was no evidence despite eyewitness testimony.

According to reports, government spokesman Mike Omeri told a news conference in Abuja that there was “nothing on the ground to prove any act of abduction, as reported”.

A local government official in the Damboa district of Borno, a vigilante leader and an area senator on Monday had said that all the women and girls, some as young as three-year-olds, were taken during a raid on Kummabza village in the last week.

Nigeria’s military initially did not confirm or deny the abduction and Borno governor Kashim Shettima on Monday ordered an urgent probe, highlighting a recent reported abduction of at least 20 nomadic women from the same area.

Shettima said he was cautious because of subsequent counter-claims that the women had in fact moved elsewhere in the state as part of migration patterns among ethnic Fulani cattle breeders.

Omeri claimed that Shettima had established “that there were no sufficient facts on the alleged abduction”, adding: “We hereby wish to state that based on available facts before us there was no abduction of 60 persons in Borno state.”

Residents from Kummabza and the surrounding villages attacked over three days from last Thursday, however, said they could not understand the denial.

“This is happening. I can’t understand why they would say that. It has been confirmed,” one man, who asked for his name to be withheld,  reportedly told AFP.

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Iran rushes to help her disrupt neighbor!

According to The New York Times report Wednesday, Iran is secretly flying surveillance drones over Iraq and sending military equipment there to help Baghdad in its fight against Sunni insurgents.

A “small fleet” of Ababil drones was deployed to the Al Rashid airfield near Baghdad, the newspaper said on its website, citing anonymous US officials.

It was gathered that Tehran has also installed an intelligence unit at the airfield to intercept electronic communications between ISIS fighters and commanders.

Ababil drones, less sophisticated than US unmanned aircraft, are designed in Iran and have a nearly 10-foot (three-meter) wingspan. They are used for surveillance and are unarmed.

About a dozen officers of Iran’s paramilitary Quds Force, have also been sent to Iraq to advise Iraqi commanders and help mobilize Shiite militias in the south of the country, the paper said, adding that Iran’s General Qassem Suleimani recently made two trips to Iraq.

Iran is also sending two flights daily to Baghdad with 70 tons each of military equipment and supplies.

“It’s a substantial amount” of material, a US official told the newspaper. “It’s not necessarily heavy weaponry, but it’s not just light arms and ammunition.”

Tehran has massed 10 divisions of its army and its Quds Force troops along the border, ready to act if the Iraqi capital or Shiite shrines are threatened, The New York Times added.

Asked at a briefing, US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said she “can’t confirm the specifics in those reports.”

But she said “anyone in the region shouldn’t do anything that might exacerbate sectarian divisions, that would fuel extremism inside Iraq.”

The United States has for two weeks said Iranian aid for the Iraq crisis should be done in a nonsectarian way — by pressuring the Iraqi government to adopt a national unity government and not fuel the Sunni and Shiite conflict.

We “believe Iran could play a constructive role if it’s helping to send the same message to the Iraqi government that we’re sending,” Harf said.

A lightning offensive by Sunni insurgents led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has overrun swathes of land north and west of Baghdad this month and threatens to tear the country apart.

The United Nations data say at least 1,075 people have been killed, an estimated three quarters of them civilians, and 658 wounded in Iraq between June 5 and 22. 

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