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      US forces in Afghanistan dropped the military's biggest non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State target in Afghanistan, reports the AP. Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump says it was the first-ever combat use of the bomb, formally called the GBU-43/Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb. Based on the acronym, it has been nicknamed the "Mother of All Bombs," with the equivalent of 11 tons of TNT. Stump says it was dropped on a cave complex used by ISIS fighters in the Achin district of Nangarhar province, close to the border with Pakistan.      The bomb weighs 21,000 tons and was first detonated in a 2003 test, reports Fox News. When dropped, it detonates before reaching the ground, resulting in a huge blast radius.     It is not the nation's biggest conventional weapon, notes the Guardian. That would be the Massive Ordnance Penetrator GBU-57, a "bunker buster." Back in 2007, the Guardian reported that Russia had detonated the "Father of All Bombs," s

    It's the story of a 4:25am taxi ride and an alleged rape, but one that doesn't go the way you might expect. A 23-year-old Ohio woman was last week charged with raping her male cab driver, who was allegedly being held at knifepoint by one of the two men who accompanied her. Police say Brittany Carter, Cory Jackson, and a second unidentified male arranged for a pickup at a TownePlace Suites hotel in Findlay on Jan. 28.     The Smoking Gun quotes the indictment as alleging Carter "purposely compelled" the 29-year-old victim to participate in a sex act "by force or threat of force"; he was otherwise uninjured. The Courier reports the prosecutor was unsure whether the car was parked or moving when the alleged crime took place. "We don't know why she did it," Findlay Detective Lt. Robert Ring told the News-Messenger in reference to the sex act. "Maybe it was a distraction because they took money from him." The money was the $32 t

A heartbroken Syrian father has told of how he innocently sent his wife and children to their deaths during the chemical attack in Syria. Abdelhamid al-Youssef, 29, instructed his wife to take their twin babies into a basement when missiles began striking Khan Sheikhoun on Tuesday 4 April. After all, that was the safest place to hide during a bombing. Little did al-Youssef know that the planes were dropping nerve gas – lethal chemicals heavier than air that would sink into the bottom of the building and kill his family. "Hours later rescuers found them in a basement near our house, dead, with foam in the noses and mouths," Youssef told The Times. "When I saw them, I did not expect that. Oh God!" Al-Youssef's wife and 9-month-old twins were just three of the 22 family members he is reported to have lost in the chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun, which was allegedly carried out by the Syrian regime. The Times reported that 86 people were kille

BOSTON — The 4-year-old girl cried that she missed her father, cried that she wanted to see him. And so her mother scooped her up and brought her here on Wednesday afternoon, to Room 906 of the Suffolk County Courthouse for a brief and emotional and likely confusing visit. Just before 4 o’clock, just before the end of another day of jury deliberation without a verdict, in walked Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, carrying in her arms the daughter she shares with Aaron Hernandez. Shayanna and Aaron aren’t married, but she recently took his name anyway. It was the first time their daughter has come to court to see her dad. Hernandez, the former New England Patriots star, is already a convicted killer, serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. He is currently awaiting a jury verdict on charges that he killed Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in a 2012 Boston drive-by shooting. A day of deliberati

     According to new satellite images, Kim Jong-Un’s North Korean government is preparing to carry out it’s 6th nuclear missile tests, as an apparent show of defiance towards U.S president Donald Trump, after the U.S on Monday ordered it’s Navy strike force to sail towards the Korean peninsula to act on North Korea if necessary after gaining support from China.      The US-based monitoring group 38 North on Thursday morning said that the satellite images from the North’s Punggye-ri site showed it was “primed and ready” for the country’s sixth nuclear test since 2006.     “Commercial satellite imagery of North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site from April 12 shows continued activity around the North Portal, new activity in the main administrative area, and a few personnel around the site’s Command Center,” 38 North said on its website. “In the courtyards of the main administrative area are approximately 11 probable tarp-covered pallets of equipment or supplies, a formation o

The 7-month old girl who was raped by her 57 year old stepfather, Magaji Dansale, in Katsina state last month, has died. She died at the Turai Yar’Adua hospital today. Recall that Magaji who is currently in police custody, raped the little girl at his home in Marmachi village of Musawa Local Government Area, Katsina State. He told newsmen that he had canal knowledge of the little girl because he believed he would become rich once he sleeps with an infant Previous Report: When asked why he chose the step daughter instead of his biological daughter, Dansale said, “She is also my child, I just don’t know how it happened. I regret my action and want to plead for leniency.” The girl’s mother, 25-year-old Zinnai Muntari, said when she woke up for the morning prayers and saw blood on the private part of the baby, her husband asked her to bring the child and after observing her, said it was pile and hurried out to bring some herbs to use on her. “As a mother, I felt this was unus

- A serial ghost killer known as Badoo has reportedly wiped out a family of three in Ikorodu - The ghost killer was said to have stoned them to death in their home Residents of Ibeshe, a community in Ikorodu, are presently living in serious fear and great panic after a serial 'ghost' killer popularly known as Badoo wiped out an entire family on Tuesday, April 11. The incident which happened at about 1.00pm in the community was perpetrated by Badoo who stoned a man, his wife and their son to death inside their own house. The activities of this serial killer had been an item in the community before now as he reportedly defiled underage children as well as young newlyweds. But his latest attack came as a surprise to many of the residents who have kept wondering what the unidentified man seeks to achieve with the killings.      An eyewitness who shared the information with NAIJ.com revealed that nobody knew when the incident occurred but that she got a wind of it when she n

ALI MODU SHERIFF The embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff, has disassociated himself from the news making rounds, that he is making plans to suspend former President, Goodluck Jonathan, and other party big wigs from the party, as reported by an online media, Post-Nigeria. “There is no truth in the report published by Post-Nigeria, on plans to suspend Jonathan”, he said. Speaking through his Deputy, Cairo Ojougboh, in a telephone interview with Daily Trust, last night, the PDP Chief said he loves the party, and does not wish that its members defect to other political parties.  Recall, that Post-Nigeria had reported that barely 48 hours after walking out on Jonathan, in a peace parley, Ali Modu-Sheriff, had said that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, his counterpart from Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, and others, are free to quit the PDP. Ali Modu-Sheriff, had earlier threatened that the PDP under his watch, will have not

A 48-year-old clearing agent, Mr Francis Stephen, said on Wednesday that his wife is having an affair with her pastor and his younger brother. “My wife is having sex with her pastor,’’ Stephen told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos while responding to a request by his wife, Ogechi, for the dissolution of their 13-year-old marriage. “My wife is sleeping with her pastor, when I got to know I confronted her and she confessed to me. “Apart from having sex with her pastor, she was also cheating on me with my younger brother,” he said. The respondent also said that his wife was violent in nature. “There was a day we had disagreement, she picked up a stone and broke the windscreen of my car,” the petitioner said. He said that Ogechi ran away with their children to her village when he told her that he would drag her to his family to confess. “Last year, my wife absconded with our children to her village without my consent, she later sent me a message that she had gotten to her f

THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER,CARL VINSON TRANSITING THE PACIFIC OCEAN Japan has teamed up with the US Navy and plans to hold joint drills near the Korean peninsula in a military show of force against North Korean threats, reports said on Wednesday. According to two sources, the drills will involve helicopter landings by Japan's Maritime Self Defence Force on each other's ships as well as communication exercises. A US naval strike force that was led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson left Singapore for the peninsula last Saturday, and is expected to reach the Korean peninsula around April 25. The 100,000 ton Nimitz-class vessel is powered by two nuclear reactors and carriers almost 100 aircraft.  "Japan wants to dispatch several destroyers as the Carl Vinson enters the East China Sea," one of the sources told Reuters. The Foreign Ministry of Japan has also issued a travel notice for all Japanese nationals travelling to or residing in South Korea

Sheila Abdus-Salaam, was found dead in the Hudson River, just a mile from her central Harlem home. Police responded to a 911 call about a woman in the water of the Hudson around 1:45 p.m Wednesday. They found an unconscious and unresponsive woman,one day after she was reported missing and was later pronounced dead and identified as Abdus-Salaam. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death and the incident is under investigation.  Police sources said there were no signs of obvious trauma or injuries indicating foul play. Abdus-Salaam was not only the first female Muslim judge in the county; she was also the first black woman to be appointed to the Court of Appeals.  Her death came the same week a prominent Chicago judge was killed outside his home. A suspect in that case has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Judge Raymond Myles. Abdus-Salaam, who was 65 years old, graduated from Barnard College and received her law degree from Columbia Law Schoo

Shame! How Nigerian Soldiers and Policemen Killed Themselves Over a Woman in Yobe State. The real cause of the tragic clash between men of the Nigerian police and Nigerian army leading to the deaths of many officers has been uncovered. The cause of the clash between soldiers and policemen resulting in the deaths of four mobile police officers and one soldier in Damaturu, Yobe State capital yesterday, with several others injured has been uncovered. According to a report by Vanguard, among the wounded mobile police officer is Buba Dauda, the Mobile Commander in Yobe State, whose abduction by the soldiers in the wee hours of yesterday triggered the face-off between the two security agencies. Vanguard gathered from sources that the clash resulted from a misunderstanding that erupted between a serving Army Captain and some mobile policemen over a girlfriend the military officer allegedly snatched from a mobile policeman. The situation did not go down well with the policeman, who mo

          The body of a man, who witnesses said was tossed from a plane, landed on a hospital roof in Mexico’s northern Sinaloa state on Wednesday, according to a public health service official in the region, which is home to notorious drug traffickers. The body landed on the roof of an IMSS hospital in the town of Eldorado, around 7:30 am local time, said the official,who was not authorized to give his name.         Witnesses standing outside the health center reported a plane flying low over the hospital and a person thrown out, the health official said. Later on Wednesday, Sinaloa’s Deputy Attorney General Jesus Martin Robles said a body, found on the hospital roof, showed injuries that appeared to be related to a strong impact. He did not confirm that it had been thrown from a plane. The public health service official said two more bodies were reported to have been found in the town, about 60 kilometers (40 miles) south of Culiacan, the state capital. Local media reported tha

The whistle blowing policy of the Federal Government appears to be paying off as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday announced that it uncovered foreign currencies and Naira notes to the tune of $43.4 million, £27,800 and N23.2 million at a four-bedroom apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos. The total amount of money recovered at the current Central Bank exchange rate is over N13 billion. The operation followed a confidential information received by the Commission's Lagos office regarding some suspicious movement of bags in and out of a particular apartment in the building. Another source who is conversant with the apartment indicated that a woman usually appeared on different occasions with 'Ghana Must Go' bags, the EFCC said. "She comes looking haggard, with dirty clothes but her skin didn't quite match her outward appearance, perhaps a disguise", the source said. . On getting to the building, operatives who were armed with a search warrant, met th

Many feared dead as Dangote truck rammed into them following a brake failure in Ihiala,Anambra State

  The Enticement Of Evil   A daily devotion for April 13th   From your friends at  RayStedman.org     Read: Genesis 3:1-6       Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made (Genesis 3:1a).       Let us move on to consider the strategy that the Tempter employs. This is most instructive because it is exactly the strategy he employs when he appears as an angel of light to us—not that we shall see visions of shining beings—but the personality that he exemplifies, the character in which he appears, is the same now as then. He is an angel of light. Scripture makes clear that the devil can also appear as a roaring lion, meaning he can strike in tragedy, in sickness, or in physical evil, as he struck Job or Paul, with his thorn in the flesh, which Paul called the messenger of Satan. When he appears as a lion, he can strike fear into our hearts. But his most effective strategy is to appear as someon

A bloody clash between the army and police in Nigeria's restive northeastern Yobe state on Wednesday left one soldier and three police dead, a security source told AFP.  The police confirmed the fracas in the state capital of Damaturu, but did not say if there were casualties.  "The Nigeria police force is abreast of the unfortunate incident that occurred in the early hours of today 12th April, 2017 in Damaturu between the personnel of the force and that of the Nigerian army," police spokesman Jimoh Moshood said in a statement.  He said an investigation had been launched to determine "the causes of the incident and deal with the situation appropriately to prevent such occurrence in the future".  The army authorities were not immediately available for comment. A security officer who did not want to be named, told AFP trouble began on Tuesday when an army officer in a mufti (civilian dress) ran into a convoy of the head of the police mobile unit in Da

Nigerian security forces say they have foiled a plot by ISIS-linked Boko Haram militants to bomb the British High Commission and US Embassy in the capital Abuja. The Department of State Services announced that it had arrested five suspects who were planning attacks. A DSS official said a suspected Boko Haram member who was arrested on March 22, in north-eastern Yobe state, confessed details of the plot. That led to the arrests of the five plotters, who were based in Benue State, in the country's middle belt, and the Federal Capital Territory, on March 25 and 26. The official said in a statement: "The group had perfected plans to attack the UK and American embassies and other western interests in Abuja. A spokesperson for Britain's Foreign & Commonwealth Office said: "We are grateful for the support we receive from the Nigerian security authorities in protecting UK diplomatic staff and premises in Nigeria. "We are in regular contact with the Nig

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, Wednesday evening escaped mob attack on his convoy at Ega Market in Idah local government area of Kogi state.He was on his way from Ibaji, the hometown of his deputy. An eye witness who spoke under anonymity explained that he went to Ibaji, to flag off a road construction.It was gathered that the youths of Idah town sighting the governor,immediately mobilised and blocked the road waiting for his return. On his return,security agents attached to his convoy,having seen the road block, immediately began sporadic shooting and in the ensuing melee, people scampered for safety. But those who were fearless, descended on his convoy and battered vehicles while chanting “pay Kogi workers’ salary.” The report also showed that the Governor was to supervise demolition of a house belonging to the father of an alleged kidnapper but had to quickly rush out of Idah having seen the audacity with which the attack on him was being carried out.The government i

An Abuja resident, James Ojogbane, and his family, has sued the Abuja Environmental Protection Board, AEPB, before an FCT High Court Jabi for allegedly causing the death of his wife, Mary James, on September 1, 2015. Joined in the suit by Mr. Ojogbane, a retired police officer, were one Isah Umar, Ibrahim Ahmed, both staff of the AEPB, and Chima Emokah, a neighbour. The plaintiff had told the court through his lawyer, Emmanuel Onoja, that the push on his wife by the environmental staff led to her untimely death. According to Mr. Onoja, Mr. Emokah lodged a complainant at the AEPB against Mr. Ojogbane and family, saying that their goat was disturbing them. Mr. Onoja said that Mr. Emokah particularly complained of his car park, which he said the goat usually defecated on. He said the AEPB staff commenced investigations on the premises following the report. According to Mr. Onoja, one of the AEPB taskforce pushed the deceased under the guise of enforcing environmental law

The whistle blowing policy of the Federal Government appears to be paying off as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday announced that it uncovered foreign currencies and Naira notes to the tune of $43.4 million, £27,800 and N23.2 million at a four-bedroom apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos. The total amount of money recovered at the current Central Bank exchange rate is over N13 billion. The operation followed a confidential information received by the Commission's Lagos office regarding some suspicious movement of bags in and out of a particular apartment in the building. Another source who is conversant with the apartment indicated that a woman usually appeared on different occasions with 'Ghana Must Go' bags, the EFCC said. "She comes looking haggard, with dirty clothes but her skin didn't quite match her outward appearance, perhaps a disguise", the source said. On getting to the building, operatives who were armed with a search w