Tragedy was, on Monday, averted at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, when a suspected Boko Haram member was arrested while attempting to detonate an explosive at the Centrex unit of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), at the international wing of the airport.

Tragedy was, on Monday, averted at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, when a suspected Boko Haram member was arrested while attempting to detonate an explosive at the Centrex unit of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), at the international wing of the airport.

According to information gathered, the suspect was able to gain access under the guise that he was a physically-challenged, which truly he is.

Security men of the agency, sensing his unusual movement while trying to press an object, got him apprehended, upon which he was caught with an explosive detonator.

The airport police command was promptly alerted, while the suspected bomber was handed over to them.

The suspect was then taken to the Beesam police station, Airport command, where he is currently undergoing interrogation.

Reacting to the incident, NAMA refuted that the suspected bomber was arrested at one of the its facilities at the international wing of the airport.

According to a statement by its General Manager, Public Affairs, Supo Atobatele, the suspect was making phone calls on the airport road, close to CENTREX, an annex office of NAMA, when he was apprehended by security personnel.

“The basic truth, however, is that the said suspect was on the ground making calls when the agency’s security personnel accosted him.

“His incoherent explanation exposed him to the security personnel who later found on him some devices suspected to be explosives,” the statement read.

The Managing Director of NAMA, Mr Ibrahim Abdulsalam, in his reaction, commended the security personnel for their vigilance.

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Ruggedman exploded on the scene years ago by dissing many artistes. Photo: Filed

Having been displaced by several upcoming acts, rapper Ruggedman recently made another effort to bounce back.

That effort is personified by his new single Agidi in which the rapper, who shook the Nigerian music industry to its foundation with diss songs targeted at an umber of established stars, features Wande Coal.

But unlike the other songs that Ruggedman has released or even featured on in the past, the song is totally dominated by the Black Diamond Boss.

In the song, a 2-minute snippet which surfaced online on Friday, August 15, Wande Coal’s voice is easily recognisable in the song while Ruggedman’s voice is almost missing, unlike other songs he had dropped in the past like Opomulero, Ehen, Peace or War and others.

The rapper has however confirmed the leak is an unfinished version. Hopefully, he will make his voice heard on the final cut.

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Universal music has released Ice Prince’s single ‘I swear’ featuring US rapper, French Montana

Universal music has released Ice Prince’s single ‘I swear’ featuring US rapper, French Montana.

This release is in the wake of a licensing deal between Chocolate City, Universal Music and Ice Prince to expose Ice Prince’s music directly to the British music market.

Universal is expected to follow up with the release of Ice Prince’s sophomore album, Fire of Zamani, which was released October 2013.

Ice Prince is currently in the UK promoting the album.

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Maheeda and Ruggedman. Photo: Instagram

Is something brewing between Ruggedman and Maheeda?

The question can only be answered by both musicians, who were spotted together on Wednesday, August 13, 2014, in Lagos.

Maheeda paid the rapper a visit and the two couldn’t help but shower affection on each other, posting pictures of their time together on Instagram and Twitter.

However, a source says the two are looking at working together on a song, which is the reason they’ve been spending time together.

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As Liberia keeps battling the scourge of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease  (EVD) , heartbreaking photos have emerged, which display a horrible state at which the country is.
According to the World Health Organization,  a total of 152 new cases of Ebola virus disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 76 deaths have been reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone between 13th and 14th of August, 2014.


Getty Images photographer,  John Moore has however took his time to travel to Monrovia, Liberia,  to chronicle harrowing scenes in the country which is in the grip of the deadly Ebola disease. Liberia is the second most affected country after Guinea where this recent outbreak started from.

View the heartbreaking photos below:

A mother and child stand on top of a mattress in an Ebola isolation station in Liberia for suspected victims of the virus.

Patients in the Ebola isolation centre are forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor after being sent to the facility suspected of having the disease

A ward, in a former primary school, is where people suspected of having the virus are sent by health workers

woman stands over her husband with her head in her hands, after he staggered and fell, knocking him unconscious in an Ebola ward in Liberia

Workers wearing protective clothing and masks look on as the woman desperately tries to help her husband who has fallen to the ground Continue reading

It would be recalled that Nigeria had a clean record of the Ebola Virus Disease not until the Liberian-American named Patrick Sawyer brought it into the country, an act in which the Nigerian President called madness.

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I was driving down a street along Alausa, having just finished answering a call, when a LASTMA official, suddenly, opened the passenger door, entered and jam-locked it. (The door's lock is faulty) As usual, he wanted 'something' from me for calling while driving... Suddenly, he saw the big Rothweiller dog, Jackie, at the back seat of the car, with tongue stuck out, spittle dripping and fangs barring, staring fiercely at him.


LASTMA Official: (Shaking) Ah! You carry dog?
Me: (I bone my face) Yes, I carry dog. that one na offense?
LASTMA Official: (Feeling uncomfortable) Na where una dey come from?
Me: From hospital.
LASTMA Official: Eheen! you sick?
Me: No, na the person wey the dog bite we go see. The person almost died sef.
LASTMA Official: (Terribly shaken by now) Eheen! But why the dog dey shake head like that?
Me: Na so im dey do when e wan bite person.
LASTMA Official: The dog know you?
Me: Yes nah, no be my dog?
LASTMA Official: (Sweating) This your door, how you dey open am?
Me: How you take open am enter?
LASTMA Official: Abeg! Na since I dey try open am, but e no open.
(The dog was now getting impatient and gave a small growl, its tongue almost touching the policeman's left ear).
LASTMA Official: (Now sliding forward) Oga, I take God beg you, open the door for me make I comot. I no go collect anything from you.
Me: How much you go pay me?
LASTMA Official: Ah! I neva hustle anything since morning. Na only N1,000 dey wit me.
Me: You neva ready. (I looked back at the dog).
LASTMA Official: Ok ok ok ok ok, e reach N2,000. The oda N1,000 na my wife own, but I go give you join. (Now, close to tears as the dog was becoming really impatient) Oga, I be......g, Oga, sorry. Take the N2,000 make you open the door plssssssse! Me: Oya, bring am. (I collected the N2,000 & allowed him out of the car)
LASTMA Official: God punish you. Idiot, e no go ever better for you and your yeye dog. Wicked man!!!

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Reports reaching us is that soldiers of the Nigerian Army are currently wrecking havoc on Ikorodu road. Reports have it that a soldier who was on a motorcycle was knocked down by a BRT (Bus Rapid Transit).

it is not known if the soldier died but other soldiers have allegedly set some BRT buses aflame.
we will keep you updated on the situation.

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