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BREAKING: Bomb explosion rocks central Maiduguri

Borno state capital Maiduguri, has come under attack from belligerent sect known to be members of the contumacious Boko Haram sect.

Two thunderous explosions, suspected to be from detonated bombs, were heard in the city at about 6:15 p.m.

The blast occurred at an area called Ngomari area of the capital.

It cannot be ascertained immediately if the blast was targeted at civilians.

No one could also say if there are casualties yet..

The Boko Haram sect has in the past months intensified attacks on the northeast states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, which are under emergency rule

It has been attacking security and military installations, including barracks and airbases at will. It has also been pummeling schools, towns and villages unchallenged and ransacking highways.

This week, it slaughtered more than 29 pupils at a government boarding school in Yobe.

As the litany of atrocities lengthened, President Goodluck Jonathan claimed the Nigerian government is winning the war against the insurgency.

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Jose Mourinho wants Fulham to stay in Premier League

Jose Mourinho

Jose Mourinho would accept defeat at Fulham on Saturday if it helped his London rivals avoid relegation, so long as Chelsea go on to win the title.

Fulham are bottom of the Premier League table and four points from safety.
Chelsea are top and manager Mourinho said: "I would take defeat [if it helps Fulham stay up], then 10 victories [for Chelsea] and the [league] title.
"I'd like the London teams to stay up. I have that emotional connection with Fulham, our neighbours and our rivals."
The Portuguese continued: "Rivals need each other. It is good for everybody, so hopefully they can keep their place in the division, but we have to try [and beat them]."

“I have to praise Magath's honesty. He was the first one to say it's a different match because of our situation”

Jose Mourinho

Mourinho had earlier criticised the scheduling of Saturday's match at Craven Cottage, which comes three days after their Champions League last-16 first-leg draw at Galatasaray.

The Blues only arrived back from Turkey in the early hours of Thursday morning and Mourinho said: "We didn't train on Thursday or Friday [morning].
"Playing Sunday would be difficult, but Saturday makes it even more difficult."
Fulham boss Felix Magath believes it may provide "a chance" for his side.
The German said: "It's an advantage yes, we are lucky Chelsea had such a long trip and played on Wednesday - it's a good situation for us.
"Travel bothers the players, but Chelsea are the favourites."
Mourinho has welcomed Magath's "honest" appraisal of the Blues' situation as his team bid to recover in time from their 1-1draw with Galatasaray.
The Portuguese said: "In a world where not many people are honest in the way they analyse things, I have to praise Magath because he was the first one to say it's a different match because Chelsea have this situation in midweek."
Mourinho also spoke of his respect for Magath's record, which includes three Bundesliga titles.
The former Real Madrid and Inter Milan boss said: "I know of him and from what he was as a player and a coach, but I don't know him personally.
"I don't know his training methods, I only know his CV. I try to be pragmatic and read the CV and it is very clear and I respect that."

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Why I rejected the Centenary award – Soyinka

Prof. Wole Soyinka

Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka, said he rejected Nigeria’s centenary award bestowed on him because of the inclusion on the honours list of the late Nigerian tyrant, General Sani Abacha and other known killers and looters of Nigeria’s treasury.
In a rejection note headlined ”The Canonisation of Terror”, Soyinka observed that the inclusion of Abacha on the list does not only show a failure of a moral rigour but it calls into question ”the entire ethical landscape into which this nation has been forced by insensate leadership”.
He reminded those who have forgotten so soon that General Sani Abacha was a vicious usurper under whose authority the lives of an elected president and his wife—M.K.O and Kudirat Abiola— were snuffed out.
It was under Abacha, he said, that assassinations became routine, that torture and other forms of barbarism were enthroned as the norm of governance.
”Nine Nigerian citizens, including the writer and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, were hanged after a trial that was stomach churning even by the most primitive of standards of judicial trial, and in defiance of the intervention of world leadership. We are speaking here of a man who placed this nation under siege during an unrelenting reign of terror that is barely different from the current rampage of Boko Haram. It is this very psychopath that was recently canonised by the government of Goodluck Jonathan in commemoration of one hundred years of Nigerian trauma”
Soyinka said that the refusal of successive governments to remove the signposts in the nation’s capital bearing Abacha’s name, the inability ”to muster the temerity to wipe out the memory of the nation’s tormentor from daily encounter” demonstrates national self-degradation and a patent lack of political courage.
Soyinka argued that: ”What the government of Goodluck Jonathan has done is to scoop up a century’s accumulated degeneracy in one pre-eminent symbol, then place it on a podium for the nation to admire, emulate and even–worship.
“There is a deplorable message for coming generations in this governance aberration that the entire world has been summoned to witness and indeed to celebrate.
The insertion of an embodiment of governance of terror into the company of committed democrats, professionals, humanists and human rights advocates in their own right, is a sordid effort to grant a certificate of health to a communicable disease that common sense demands should be isolated. It is a confidence trick that speaks volumes of the perpetrators of such a fraud”.

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