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S ri Lankan soldiers stand guard as security personnel inspect the debris of a car after it explodes when police tried to defuse a bomb near St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo/ AFP Police on Monday said they had found 87 bomb detonators at a Colombo bus station, a day after a string of attacks on churches and hotels that killed nearly 300 people. A statement said police found the detonators at the Bastian Mawatha Private bus stand, 12 of them scattered on the ground and another 75 in a garbage dump nearby. There was no immediate information on injuries in the blast, or how large it was. The explosion happened around 50 metres from the St Anthony’s Shrine, one of three churches targeted in a string of suicide bombs on Sunday that killed nearly 300 people. Government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said investigators were looking at whether the National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) group had “international support” for the deadly Easter Sunday attacks on churches and luxury hotels. War

Yesterday, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, released another of his now well expected quarterly vicious attack on the person of Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, the President of the Senate. In the statement, one could see the master of media spins getting ensnared in his own game as he struggled to extricate himself from the narratives about the contest for leadership positions in the Ninth National Assembly. 2. Since we have taken it for granted that Tinubu’s attack on Saraki every three months (Quarterly) will come as expected, we would just have ignored his statement but for the fact that it was filled with untruth, fallacies and misrepresentations. The statement was another effort to sell a concocted narrative about the Eighth National Assembly and its leadership. 3. First, he alleged that national budgets were delayed, distorted, padded, new projects introduced, funds for projects reduced, “to halt progress of government”. It is unfortunate that a man like Tinubu who had been in the S

Kehinde Ogunyale, who witnessed the tragic incident, told Punch newspaper that trouble started when an argument ensued between the deceased and the police officer over an unknown issue. A police officer in Ogun State has killed a resident at Iyana Coker in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State. The officer, whose identity could not be ascertained as of the time of the report, allegedly killed the young man during an argument. Kehinde Ogunyale, who witnessed the tragic incident, told Punch newspaper that trouble started when an argument ensued between the deceased and the police officer over an unknown issue. Ogunyale said the deceased was a young man, although his identity had not yet been ascertained. Another witness, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said there was no clear reason as to what transpired between the deceased and the officer.  Enraged by the incident, residents of the area embarked on a protest, which resulted in a chaotic situation as they block

“I have been directed by Mr. Governor to withdraw the branded Sienna in your possession,” read the memo. “You are required to submit the vehicle to the office of the SSA (Political Matters) on or before Friday 12th April 2019. Please, kindly comply. SSA (Political Matters)." Rotimi Akeredolu, Governor of Ondo State, has ordered the withdrawal of all the branded vehicles he donated for the re-election bid and campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2019 general election, SaharaReporters can exclusively report. The vehicles donated by Akeredolu before the election were presented to some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state in order to increase the victory chances of Buhari and the party's candidates, mostly those contesting for the House of Assembly seats in the state. SaharaReporters learnt that buses were "given" to party chairmen while the Sienna cars were handed out to elected members of the Ondo State House of Assembly,

There is something very spectacular about the Southern part of Nigeria. Perhaps, these peculiarities are recourse to their historical contiguity as being autochthonous. This historical affability which makes them closely attached to nature and the course of originism keeps them secured from certain inversions. During the Nigeian Civil war, there are still places in Nkalaha (in Ebonyi State) where the Nigerian soldiers could not penetrate and over three thatched buildings that refused to take the fire lit by the soldiers. The same story is also told of another place (Diase) in the southern Cross-River State where a deity could not allow grenades to detonate as the deity protects her inhabitants.  There was also a case in the early 2000 when Ateke led his group of militants to the kingdom of the Ijaw; he shot the king’s cabinets, beholding the throne empty, but the king was on it asking him questions. Today, it pleased Nnamdi Kanu to showcase another hero and heroine of the blat