BREAKING: Bomb explosion rocks central Maiduguri

Maiduguri on Blast

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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World Bank postpones $90m Uganda loan over anti-gay law

The World Bank has postponed a $90m (£54m) loan to Uganda over its tough anti-gay law, which has drawn criticism from around the world.

World Bank officials said they wanted to guarantee the projects the loan was destined to support were not going to be adversely affected by the law.

The loan was intended to boost Uganda's health services.

Ugandan government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said the World Bank "should not blackmail its members".

The law, enacted on Monday, strengthens already strict legislation relating to homosexuals.

It allows life imprisonment as the penalty for acts of "aggravated homosexuality" and also criminalises the "promotion of homosexuality".

'Eliminate discrimination'

The law has been sharply criticised by the West, with donors such as Denmark and Norway saying they would redirect aid away from the government to aid agencies.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has called the law "atrocious". Both he and South African Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu compared it to anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa.

A spokesman for the World Bank said: "We have postponed the project for further review to ensure that the development objectives would not be adversely affected by the enactment of this new law."

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The loan was supposed to be approved on Thursday to supplement a 2010 loan that focused on maternal health, newborn care and family planning. The World Bank's action is the largest financial penalty incurred on the Ugandan authorities since the law went into force. In an editorial for the Washington Post, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim warned that legislation restricting sexual rights "can hurt a country's competitiveness by discouraging multinational companies from investing or locating their activities in those nations". He said the World Bank would discuss how such discrimination "would affect our projects and our gay and lesbian staff members". In his view, he adds, fighting "to eliminate all institutionalised discrimination is an urgent task". But Mr Opondo said not everything the West said was correct and there should be mutual respect for sovereign states. "There was a time when the international community believed slave trade and slavery was cool, that colonialism was cool, that coups against African governments was cool," he told the BBC. "I think the best way forward is constructive engagement but... I think Uganda and Africa in general should stand up to this blackmail." President Yoweri Museveni signed the anti-gay bill earlier this week, despite international criticism. Ugandan authorities have defended the decision, saying President Museveni wanted "to demonstrate Uganda's independence in the face of Western pressure and provocation". Uganda is a very conservative society, where many people oppose homosexuality.****

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PHOTO: Lady Stripped Naked In Broad Daylight For Wearing A Mini Skirt

Uganda is currently a hub of controversies in the region. Just days after assenting to Anti-rape law which outlawed miniskirts and banned those including exposing cleavages, Museveni signed the anti-gay bill which now gives life imprisonment to homosexuals. In the wake of new laws, Ugandans have now taken the law enforcement into their hands.

A young lady headed to her place of work was stripped off at the heart of Kampala, the country’s capital, she was accused of donning a miniskirt and exposing her thighs, ”she has really big buttocks and thighs, she provoked my feelings and that is what we don’t want, I could easily rape her” shouted one of the rowdy members who undressed the lady exposing her nakedness.
What do you make of this…

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