Five people, including a suspected suicide bomber, have been killed in a bomb explosion that rocked Kano on Sunday night, the Police have said.
The incident, which occurred at Gold Coast, Middle Road Junction, also destroyed vehicles that were passing when the suicide bomber’s car exploded.
Eyewitness accounts say that the blast was so powerful that all that remains of the car is its engine.
The Kano State Police Commissioner Adelere Shinaba said that apart from the suicide bomber, three men and a girl of about 12 years of age also died.
He also said that the car exploded along the road, meaning the bomber could not reach his destination before the explosion.
The explosion, which occurred at about 9:30 pm, took residents of the city unawares, causing a stampede around the area which resulted in multiple accidents on roads close to the scene of the blast.
The area had been cordoned off by security operatives and movement is restricted.
Bars and alcohol-sellers in the Sabon Gari area have been targeted on numerous other occasions.
In January 2012, about 150 people died there in a series of coordinated attacks by the Boko Haram.
Poppy, of Bournemouth, England has officially been christened the world's oldest living cat at the spry age of 24, or 114 in human years. Her secret to being forever young? Oh, just lots of water and portion control. And chicken. Kitchen-fresh only:
"She has biscuits in the morning and tinned food later on. She's never been a big cat though. She is partial to the odd takeaway. We sometimes give her a bit of KFC chicken, fish and chips and even the odd bit of kebab meat.
Her owners, who have two kids, four other cats, two rabbits, and a hamster, while not preparing for the world's next great flood, are mostly waiting around for Poppy to die.
"She's deaf and blind and meows for everything. We call her stroppy Poppy sometimes. She can get up the stairs but we won't let her walk down. Over the last year her health has gone down and we know the end is near."
In human years, Poppy is just two years shy of being older than the world's oldest living human, Misao Okawa of Japan. Though she is nowhere near as old as Head Cat Creme Puff,who lived to be 38.
Late Michael Jackson returned from beyond the grave to wow fans at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday by performing onstage in hologram form, five years after his death.
Producers of the Las Vegas prizegiving used virtual technology to make it appear as if the King of Pop had been brought back to life to sing and dance his way through new track Slave to the Rhythm.
He began the creepy appearance seated in a throne before joining a string of dancers to show off his fancy footwork by strutting across the stage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena as he appeared to belt out the tune. The stunt, titled the Michael Jackson Xperience, left the audience in awe and earned a standing ovation from everyone in attendance.
Stars also took to their Twitter.com accounts to share their feelings about the performance, with newlywed Kelly Rowland writing, “We miss you Michael!”, while actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler tweeted, “I have chills watching michael Jackson performance. Makes u (sic) realize there will never be a performer like him”, and rapper Nicki Minaj commented, “Dat (sic) was mike?”
The virtual performance almost didn’t happen after Jackson estate executors and Billboard Music Awards producers were slapped with legal action in an effort to put a stop to the show.
Businessman Alki David, who claims to control the rights to the hologram technology, filed suit in Nevada on Thursday, insisting the Billboard gig would likely violate his patent, but his motion was dismissed on Friday due to a lack of evidence, allowing the show to go on.
The Michael Jackson Xperience, organized to celebrate the release of his new posthumous album Xscape, beared similarities to the resurrection of Tupac Shakur at the 2012 Coachella music festival in California, where the dead rapper appeared onstage alongside Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg in hologram form.
Missing Flight MH370: New update claims missing flight may have been accidentally SHOT down56
A shocking new book claims that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have been accidentally shot down and the search for survivors covered up.
‘Flight MH370: The Mystery ’ makes the incredible allegation that the airline was shot down by US-Thai strike fighters as part of a training drill that went horribly wrong.
But just 71 days after the Boeing 777 vanished carrying 239 people from 14 nations relatives say the UK published work is ‘too soon’ and ‘too insensitive’.
The book also claims search parties were deliberately sent in the wrong direction as part of a cover up.
The family of missing Australian Rod Burrows are appalled.
Irene Burrows, Rod’s mother said: “There’s absolutely no answers. It’s devastating for the families.
“There are so many theories that I only want to believe one, that they were all unconscious and didn’t know what was going on ... That keeps me sane. All I want is for somebody to find a bit of plane.”
She said both her and husband George are still trying to understand what happened, and that a book full of conspiracies does nothing to alleviate the pain of losing their son.
The book’s author, Nigel Cawthorne, believes there may never be a clear answer.
A crew member aboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P-3K2 Orion aircraft looks out an observation window as they fly over the southern Indian Ocean to continue the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370
In her account of the fate of the ill-fated plane that vanished on March 8 he writes: ‘Did they die painlessly, unaware of their fate? Or did they die in terror in a flaming wreck, crashing from the sky in the hands of a madman?’
Cawthorne describes how a man, while working on an oil rig in the ocean at about the same time the plane’s transponder went off, saw a burning plane and how this was right near the military exercise.
He claims that these countries may have then sent searchers in the wrong direction in order to cover their tracks.
“After all, no wreckage has been found in the South Indian Ocean, which in itself is suspicious,” he adds.
The book says the drill was to involve mock warfare on land, in water and in the air, and would include live-fire exercises.
It adds: “Say a participant accidentally shot down Flight MH370. Such things do happen. No one wants another Lockerbie, so those involved would have every reason to keep quiet about it.”
Cawthorne, who lives in London, says on his website that he has written more than 150 books, including the “Sex Lives” series, which examines the private lives of popes, US presidents and “Great Dictators”.
His book on MH370 says the failure to find wreckage is “in itself is suspicious” and that even if the plane’s black box is eventually found, it may not be the original black box.
“Another black box could have been dropped in the sea 1,000 miles from Perth while the search was going on in the South China Sea,” it adds.
Cawthorne also raises more doubt into the plane’s disappearance, claiming it could have been located if its tracking software had been upgraded - something that costs just £6 per flight.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has called for real-time tracking of planes and improvements to their communication systems to prevent a repeat of the 370 tragedy.
“One of the most astonishing things about this tragedy is the revelation that an airliner the size of a Boeing 777 can vanish, almost without a trace. In an age of smartphones and mobile Internet, real-time tracking of commercial airplanes is long overdue,” he said.
Meanwhile the search for the plane continues
Led by Australia their ship Ocean Shield carrying a robot submarine, the Bluefin 21, has returned to survey the ocean floor for MH370’s black box.
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Five people, including a suspected suicide bomber, have been killed in a bomb explosion that rocked Kano on Sunday night, the Police have said.
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