Police in Imo Defuse Bomb Close to the state's INEC office

Men of the Imo state Police command this morning defused two bombs planted close to the Imo state INEC secretariat in Owerri the state capital. According to reports, the bombs were planted in front of the Owerri Capital Development Agency OCDA and were discovered after a loud noise emanated from that area at about 9.30am today. Policemen are said to have cordoned off the area.

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Searchers Located AirAsia Plane Fuselage in Java Sea

The fuselage of the crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has been located in the Java Sea, almost a month after it went missing.

The main body of the AirAsia plane where most of the victims’ bodies are thought to be

The main part of the jet with one wing attached was found about 1.5km from where the tail section was discovered last week. The information was confirmed by Singapore’s Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen who posted pictures taken by a search robot on his Facebook page.
Searchers located wreckage on the sea floor beginning on3 January, and the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered by 13 January. The devices will help investigators learn what exactly caused the plane carrying 162 people to crash into the sea.
At the moment forty-eight bodies have been recovered from the sea. But more than 100 remain missing and are thought to be inside the fuselage of the plane. However, Indonesian officials said there are no plans to retrieve it yet. Further recovery is in progress.
The crash was the third to strike Asia in 2014 after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing and is yet to be found and MH17 was shot down.

US Explains Increase In Boko Haram Attacks

The U.S. State Department on Wednesday explained why there has been an upsurge in attacks by Boko Haram insurgents in northern Nigeria recently.
According to the spokeswoman of the agency, Marie Harf, Nigeria’s general elections holding in February could be a factor behind the sharp increase in attacks by Boko Haram Islamist militants.
Harf, however, stated that the February 14 presidential election should go ahead in spite of the violence which has forced about 20,000 Nigerians to flee to neighbouring countries in recent weeks.
“There has been a sharp escalation in the number of reported casualties.
“We do believe the election is a factor,’’ Harf told a daily briefing.

Marie Harf.

Harf said Boko Haram previously used events such as elections to stir up tensions.

Kofi Annan Warns Nigeria Against Election

Kofi Annan, Former United Nations secretary-general on Wednesday urged Nigeria to hold peaceful elections next month, warning that violence could be a set-back to progress across Africa.


Speaking at a conference in Abuja attended by President Goodluck Jonathan and main opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari, Annan said the impact of unrest could have far-reaching consequences.
“What happens in Nigeria affects us all, not just in West Africa but Africa as a whole,” he told

Man U Pay £214.8 million on salaries For 2013-14 season

Manchester United have the highest wage bill in the Premier League, according to figures released on Monday yahoo sports reports.

Manchester United were last Champions in the 2012-2013 season

United paid out a total £214.8 million ($324 million) on salaries in the 2013-14 season, while English champions Manchester City’s wage costs dropped last season to £205 million.
Chelsea, currently top of the Premier League, paid £190.5 million, up eight per cent from £176 million, according to the club’s annual accounts. Arsenal are next in the pay league with a total wage bill of £166.4 million, while the scale of Southampton’s recent success is illustrated by the fact that their wage bill was a fraction of their top-four rivals.
The latest figures available for 2012-13 show the Saints, currently third in the Premier League after beating United on Sunday, paid out just £47.1 million in salaries.
Chelsea’s accounts confirm the club’s announcement in November that they made a £18.4 million profit last season.
Selling many players like Juan Mata to United and David Luiz to PSG, allowed the club to overturn a £49.4 million loss on the season before and should make them assured to comply with UEFA’s financial fair play rules.
Former Manchester United player Cristiano Ronaldo just won the ballon D’or for the of the 2014 calender year. Ronaldo is on the books of Real Madrid

Yemen's Al-Qaida Claims Attack On Charlie Hedbo

Yemen’s faction terrorist group al-Qaida on Wednesday claimed responsibility for last week’s massacre at a Paris satirical newspaper, with one of its top commanders saying the assault was in revenge for the weekly’s publications of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, considered an insult in Islam.

Yahoo news report that The claim came in a video posting by Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which appeared on the group’s Twitter account.