BOKO-HARAM vs NIGERIAN

Scores of people were killed after a bomb exploded at about 6:55 am at the busy Nyanya Mass Transit Motor Park, Abuja and Nigerians are still in mourning.

The social media has been awash with messages of hope, prayers, and some blame trading as Nigerians try to come to terms with the act of terror.

Following the attack, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim posted a sobering update on Facebook.

“People who woke up with dreams and plans for the week only hours before have been reduced to tattered remains strewn on the grounds. Law abiding citizens, husbands, wives, dreamers, boarding buses to work, to pursue their dreams. But some maniacs set off a bomb and kill people, kill dreams. What can we do, Nigeria? What can we say? RIP, the departed,” he wrote.

Prayers were said for the departed.

“R.I.P to the Nigerians who lost their lives in today’s bomb blast at Abuja. It’s really sad,” @mzz_Portable wrote.

“Abuja bomb Blast: May the Merciful Lord give the families of the dead and the injured and their families, the strength to bear this tragedy,” @tyleye tweeted.

Also, @pastorNomthi, tweeted, “My heart goes out to the victims of the bomb blast in Abuja.May the Lord comfort their families &put an end to these explosions in Jesus name.”

Some folks like @chasideho were quick to lay blames.

“The Abuja bomb blast, FG is on top of d matter. Na so dem go continue to dey on top of the matter until d matter go climb their head,” he wrote.

The photo spree that followed the blast also drew the ire of some people like Abdullahi O. Haruna Haruspice who wrote:

“Those of us that rushed to snap the mangled and shred bodies of the victims, how are we different from the lunatic that denotes these bombs? What is your pride in these callousness? Ordinarily, people run from the scenes of bomb blast because there is always the likelihood of having another blast followed the first one. While you celebrate your photographic fantasies, watch your back as you may likely be the next victim.”

The police say that the explosion affected as many as 16 high capacity buses and other smaller vehicles, most of which where loaded with passengers.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that several dead bodies and human parts littered the ground in and around the park following the blast.

Meanwhile, President Jonathan has cancelled his trips and assured Nigerians that the Federal Government will bring the Boko Haram issues to an end.

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CELEBRITIES GOES COMMANDO WITHOUT UNDERWEAR

 

These celebs don’t mind going commando! From Paris Hilton to Reese Witherspoon, many stars have taken the bold choice to ditch their undergarments. Click through the shocking gallery!

 

 

 

Miley Cyrus

Split personality? One half of the singer’s Jean Paul Gaultier jumpsuit is all business, while the other features a sheer pant leg. To pull the look off, Cyrus had to forgo the undies! Spotted on Sept. 11, 2013 in London.

 

 

 

Jennifer Lopez

Wearing a white gown with strategically placed slits, J.Lo went commando at the Parker movie premiere in Las Vegas in January 2013.

 

 

 

Gwyneth Paltrow

Dare to bare! The actress rocked a sidebutt-baring dress to the Hollywood premiere of Iron Man 3 in April 2013, but had to ditch underwear to pull it off. “I kind of had a disaster,” she later told Ellen DeGeneres. “I was doing a show and I changed there, and I went and I couldn’t wear underwear. Let’s just say, everyone went scrambling for a razor.” She added to Jay Leno, “There was no underwear on in that dress. I put it on and it stayed in place, thank goodness.”

 

 

 

Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan gave fans an accidental peep show when she decided to ditch underwear and flashed her lady parts while stepping out of a boat at the 2006 Venice Film Festival.

 

 

 

 

Kate Middleton

Oops! During her 2011 tour of Canada with Prince William, Kate Middleton inadvertently flashed her royal bum when a gust of wind caused her dress to fly up at the Calgary airport.

 

 

 

Paris Hilton

The hotel heiress learned her lesson to always, always wear underwear after she flashed her private parts while climbing out of her car in Beverly Hills in August 2002.

 

 

 

Justin Theroux

Jennifer Aniston’s man pulled a “Hamm” of his own while jogging in N.Y.C. in June 2013. Wearing gray sweats with no sign of underwear, the actor revealed a very noticeable outline of his privates as he ran.

 

 

Reese Witherspoon

Witherspoon had a full moon moment when she flashed her butt while shopping in June 2013.

 

 

 

 

Jenna Dewan Tatum

Channing Tatum’s wife skipped underwear and showed off her side-booty at the premiere of American Horror Story: Asylum in October 2012.

 

 

 

Snooki

What happened at the shore, didn’t stay at the shore! While spending time with her roommates in August 2010, the Jersey Shore star rocked a Hustler baseball uniform, but revealed a little too much when she exposed her bare butt to the cameras.

 

 

 

Britney Spears

Oops, she did it again! While watching her son’s soccer game in March 2013, the singer went without underwear and flashed her butt when the wind blew up her super-short dress.

 

 

 

 

Eva Longoria

The actress stepped onto the carpet for the premiere of Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of a Plains Indian at the Cannes Film festival in May 2013, accidentally flashing her lady parts to waiting fans and photographers as she pulled up her dress to avoid tripping. The next night, Longoria laughed off the incident, quipping, “Here’s my dress for tonight! No wardrobe malfuctions tonight!”

 

 

 

 

Anne Hathaway

At the Les Miserables premiere in New York City on Dec. 10, 2012, the film’s leading lady accidentally flashed photographers while exiting her car outside the Ziegfeld Theatre. “It was obviously an unfortunate incident,” she said on the TODAY show following the media attention.

 

 

 

Jaimie Alexander

Going commando, the actress (and Peter Facinelli’s girlfriend) definitely seemed to channel Gwyneth Paltrow’s shocking April 2013 look at the Nov. 4 premiere of Thor: The Dark World wearing a black Azzaro Couture gown with sheer paneling on the front and back.

NIGERIA THINK: Sleeping or Awake

IS CONFAB THE SOLUTION

It should be a touching mind when you read the news that ‘our’ Confab Delegate are now either sleeping or playing scrabble at a conference meant to map our future.

 

This anomaly is made more painful because their presence at the conference is paid for, it is not a service rendered out of patriotism.

I am sure most of us will be willing to collect only 5% of what they are being paid to sit in that conference hall and listen, or sleep and play scrabble.

Yes, there may or may not be a good motive behind calling for the conference – only God and the convener Uncle Jona can tell us about that.

But will we continue to watch the mockery of our collective intellects by aged people who might end up dying even before the report of the confab is typed?

We all raised noise over the ‘sleepin delegates’ drama, after pictures emerged showing delegates answering the call of nature while the nation is still boiling – killings all over, poverty everywhere!

The delegates seem to be saying:

lets play a game of scrabble

we have enough money, lets gamble

the nation can die! who cares?

abeg, lets sleep and play my dears!

Now, is it any wonder that the main issues they have raised at the confab are relating to their allowances and whether or not they will vote this way or that?

Weeks have gone and nothing has been gained by the average Nigerian, except those benefiting from the monthly (or weekly) bank alerts that seem to be the only thing keeping our scrabbling and sleeping delegates from going home in anger.

Polytechnic students will soon celebrate the 1 year birthday of the ASUP strike, Boko Haram gets more daring, Fulani vs Farmers war enters Season infinity, CBN and NNPC can’t reconcile our revenue, Baby Factories are sprouting like pubic hair, poverty is growing beards, APC and PDP turn us to pawn in a game of political chess…and the delegates are scrabbling and sleeping!

My brothers and sisters, don’t you think it is time we take our destinies into our hands?

I do not mean taking to the streets, but taking to the streets of our collective creativity, starting something, no matter how small, as we await the 2015 battleground.

Yes, it will be a battle ground because they are already sharpening PDP-istic and APC-cious knives, dividing us to rule us.

Open your eyes, and be the change you want to see in Nigeria.