A local television station in Nigeria captures the moment a second bomb ripped through a bustling bus terminal and market frequented by thousands of people in Nigeria’s central city of Jos.At least 118 people were killed and dozens more injured when two car bombs exploded at a busy bus terminal and market in Nigeria’s central city of Jos on Tuesday.
The second blast, which was captured on camera by a local television station, came half an hour after the first, killing some of the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene.
Huge plumes of black smoke could be seen rising from the fires that, according to emergency crews, were still burning some eight hours later.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks.
The second phase of the distribution of Permanent Voters Card (PVC) exercise in Oyo State by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) comes up this weekend, Friday to Sunday (Oct.24 to 26,2014), the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Nasir Ayilara, has said.
The Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi on Tuesday announced the portfolios of the newly appointed Commissioners and Advisers.
In view of the series of insinuations, allegations and false claims being made by certain activists and politicians on the legal and disciplinary process in the Nigerian military, the Defence Headquarters finds it necessary to call on politicians to avoid using the forum or medium of their political campaigns to incite or endorse acts of indiscipline in the nation’s military establishments. This call has become necessary as the trend got to another level on Tuesday when a prominent politician declared that “The soldiers have the right to protest for the Federal Government’s failure to fully equip them”.
Obasanjo described the supervisors as being of immense benefits to his academic pursuit and used the medium to call on Nigerians to learn more about God for them to know Him and serve and worship Him better.